“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have
happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have
ever happened to us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Sir Stephen invades Bar Azure at Coogee and David wins the hard core irony award of the year ...
Australian Financial Review's David Rowe takes out 2017 political cartoonist of the year
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Sir Stephen invades Bar Azure at Coogee and David wins the hard core irony award of the year ...
Australian Financial Review's David Rowe takes out 2017 political cartoonist of the year
What is the force and power of the blessings and curses of men, even if these men be such giants as Plato and Aristotle? Does truth become more true because Aristotle blesses it, or does it become error because Plato curses it? Is it given men to judge the truths, to decide the fate of the truths? On the contrary, it is the truths which judge men and decide their fate and not men who rule over the truths. Men, the great as well as the small, are born and die, appear and disappear - but the truth remains. When no one had as yet begun to "think" or to "search," the truths which later revealed themselves to men already existed. And when men will have finally disappeared from the face of the earth, or will have lost the faculty of thinking, the truths will not suffer therefrom
— Lev Shestov, who died in 1938
About 95 million images are uploaded toInstagram every day. This behavior seems new. But it was prefigured by an earlier aesthetic movement: the picturesque
Derek Mahon: Why I chose the typewriter over the internet
About 95 million images are uploaded toInstagram every day. This behavior seems new. But it was prefigured by an earlier aesthetic movement: the picturesque
Be MEdia Dragon Included in Australian Financial Review Fast Starters List ...
Drinking coffee is good for your health, new study reveals
Derek Mahon: Why I chose the typewriter over the internet
It's true: "In years past, this relationship was an illicit tryst, a badge of shame. Today, it is an artistic triumph. Many writers head to theater school with dramatic polygamy in mind, and those already established in theater actively pursue meetings with TV executives." … [Read More]
TLS books of the year, always one of the best lists
From hippie fun to shell of its former self:Rolling Stone is a mirror of the baby-boom generation. The reflection is not pretty
Stephen F. Cohen, who says he's skeptical about everything except horses and bourbon, is oddly credulous about Putin. His enemies and friends ask the same question: Why?
What does it mean to be a jerk? It is to be ignorant of the value of others and the merit of their ideas. Maybe you know one. ... Maybe you are one
We knowingly assert that civilization “collapsed” on Easter Island. The truth is more complicated. After all, history isn’t about conveying neat Moral lessons
Glass is everywhere in photography, especially broken glass. When it breaks, what intrigues us is the brittleness that was there all along
Inception: A Novel Written By A Character On A TV Show, With A Blurb By The Actual Writer, Is Out Now
Follow this: "In the very first episode of Jane the Virgin — the hit show about a young woman who is accidentally artificially inseminated during a routine visit to her gynecologist — viewers learn that Jane wants to be a writer. Over the course of the show, she attends graduate school, obtaining her Master’s degree in creative writing and working with an adviser to hone her manuscript. She gets a job at a publishing company, eventually getting discovered at a reading for emerging writers. In the episode airing on Friday, her book is finally published." … [Read More]
Diana Ross Reflects On Her Life In Music – And Her Future
As the legend gets a lifetime achievement award, and during the 55th anniversary of the Supremes' debut, Ross says, "Motown was genius! It put all of this energy together and created music that traveled around the entire world. Berry Gordy had a vision, and so did I. We were surrounded by [so much] talent, and that combination of harmony and family became one." …[Read More]
"It's a very interesting topic - taste - many people talk about good taste, bad taste, creativity or art or sense of beauty. There is no good taste or bad taste. There is a notion of elegance or of a new idea of beauty, new horizons, but the notion of bad taste is irrelevant in terms of creativity."
Here Are Some Curators Trying Their Hardest To Shake Up The Art World
These curators work in traditional spaces, create new space, work together, and say that the art fair needs to end. But more important than that, says one: "The art world needs to reckon with its own power." … [Read More]
Billionaires and bankers hatch a superannuation plot
Girish Bhargava, The Editor Of ‘Dirty Dancing’ And So, So Many Dance Shows, Has Died At 76…
We would know so little of dance without him: "Bhargava edited films that captured the work of Balanchine, Peter Martins, Bob Fosse, Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham and many other prominent choreographers, in the process creating an archival record of a genre that had historically been difficult to preserve. And through Dance in America and other television work, he spread the art form to people who might not have been able to get to a theater." … [Read More]