🎨 Robert Longo
No Threat, 2018
charcoal on mounted paper
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Nicola D'Ascenzo's "His Master's Voice" stained-glass window
"And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling."
- Bruce Chatwin
Lew Baxter in Her Own Money, 1922
This is a print from the great French photographer Roger Corbeau's silent Hollywood film collection.
🎨 Portrait by George Richmond, 1829
"Something new had entered English Painting: the willingness to make pastoral landscape a vehicle for intense turbulent emotion."
- Mark Abley
"Unlike novelists who start strong & fade out, Mordecai got better & better."
- Robert Gottlieb
"Unlike novelists who start strong & fade out, Mordecai got better & better."
- Robert Gottlieb
One more time!
One more time!
Richler had ruffled lots of feathers with his "Reporter at Large: Inside/Outside" article on Quebec in the September 23, 1991
issue of the New Yorker.
newyorker.com/magazine/199...
Richler had ruffled lots of feathers with his "Reporter at Large: Inside/Outside" article on Quebec in the September 23, 1991
issue of the New Yorker.
newyorker.com/magazine/199...
- Mordecai Richler in 1950. He was 19.
📷 Robert Doisneau, 1949
- Mordecai Richler in 1950. He was 19.
📷 Robert Doisneau, 1949
"There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class."
"There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class."
📷 Andrew Stawicki, Toronto Star, 1987
"Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates."
📷 Andrew Stawicki, Toronto Star, 1987
"Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates."
🎨 Portrait by George Richmond, 1829
"Something new had entered English Painting: the willingness to make pastoral landscape a vehicle for intense turbulent emotion."
- Mark Abley
🎨 Portrait by George Richmond, 1829
"Something new had entered English Painting: the willingness to make pastoral landscape a vehicle for intense turbulent emotion."
- Mark Abley
The names focus on how early this arrives: from the Greek ‘Er’ = spring & ‘anthos’ = flower & the Latin ‘hyemalis’ = winter flowering.
For someone who grew up in Alberta, Victoria’s winter plants sure make me think of spring!
The names focus on how early this arrives: from the Greek ‘Er’ = spring & ‘anthos’ = flower & the Latin ‘hyemalis’ = winter flowering.
For someone who grew up in Alberta, Victoria’s winter plants sure make me think of spring!
📷 Evelyn Hofer, 1983
Over a couple of years, back on Twitter, I put together a huge thread of photos of writers’ desks, but I missed this one.
📷 Evelyn Hofer, 1983
Over a couple of years, back on Twitter, I put together a huge thread of photos of writers’ desks, but I missed this one.
📷 Evelyn Hofer, 1988
📷 Evelyn Hofer, 1988
📷 Lawrence Schiller, 1969
"He achieved what most of his peers find impossible: remaining a major star into a craggy, charismatic old age even as he redefined himself as more than a Hollywood star."
- Aljean Harmetz
📷 Lawrence Schiller, 1969
"He achieved what most of his peers find impossible: remaining a major star into a craggy, charismatic old age even as he redefined himself as more than a Hollywood star."
- Aljean Harmetz
📷 Lawrence Schiller, 1969
"He achieved what most of his peers find impossible: remaining a major star into a craggy, charismatic old age even as he redefined himself as more than a Hollywood star."
- Aljean Harmetz
With Jane Fonda
📷 Douglas Kirkland, 1969
"Perhaps he is the smudged meeting place of art cinema & the sort of uninhibited catering to erotic taste that the cinema may yet discover as its commercial destiny."
- David Thomson
With Jane Fonda
📷 Douglas Kirkland, 1969
"Perhaps he is the smudged meeting place of art cinema & the sort of uninhibited catering to erotic taste that the cinema may yet discover as its commercial destiny."
- David Thomson
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOU...
The telephone number of the Hotel Pennsylvania, near Penn Station in Manhattan. Try calling (212) 736-5000: you're in for a treat!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOU...
The telephone number of the Hotel Pennsylvania, near Penn Station in Manhattan. Try calling (212) 736-5000: you're in for a treat!
📷 Sefton Samuels, 1969
"I never heard such an expressive player: she would linger on one note for two long minutes, playing with such variety that one might have been hearing a whole composition."
- Charles Beare
📷 Sefton Samuels, 1969
"I never heard such an expressive player: she would linger on one note for two long minutes, playing with such variety that one might have been hearing a whole composition."
- Charles Beare
📷 Sophie Bassouls, 1975
"She cast herself as a revolutionary. And we have liked our civil rights activists firmly in the reform tradition, and we have liked our revolutionaries male."
- Jane Kamensky
📷 Sophie Bassouls, 1975
"She cast herself as a revolutionary. And we have liked our civil rights activists firmly in the reform tradition, and we have liked our revolutionaries male."
- Jane Kamensky
📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1965
NYPL digital collection
"When we were writing together, if I would ask him to add even a grace note to the song, he would sit down and write a whole new melody."
- Sammy Cahn
📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1965
NYPL digital collection
"When we were writing together, if I would ask him to add even a grace note to the song, he would sit down and write a whole new melody."
- Sammy Cahn
📷 Self-portrait, Paris, c. 1937
"To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs. By that definition I am an amateur."
📷 Self-portrait, Paris, c. 1937
"To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs. By that definition I am an amateur."
📷 Philippe Halsman, 1963
"Jules is at the top, & I’m not even slightly put off by the fact that he’d probably agree. He had a huge influence on me, to the exclusion of many other greats, I’m sure, so we may both be wrong."
- Garry Trudeau
📷 Philippe Halsman, 1963
"Jules is at the top, & I’m not even slightly put off by the fact that he’d probably agree. He had a huge influence on me, to the exclusion of many other greats, I’m sure, so we may both be wrong."
- Garry Trudeau