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He was a model to me of artistic labor and discipline, even if those early paintings were painfully amateurish. The painting followed me from Amherst to my first job in New York, and on to London and Delhi. IT WASN’T MY intention to start an essay about artistic beginnings with a story of artistic death. I’m especially moved by those first moments of validation by which an artist comes out to himself, as it were. It’s this, the inexorability of the correspondence between an artist and the world, that gives those first steps their magical quality.

Persons: Naipaul, Neil Shah, James Wood —, Zack, who’d, ”, Artemisia Gentileschi, Susanna, Elders ”, I’m, ” Gustave Flaubert, “, ” Zack, it’s, Bruce Chatwin, Paul Gauguin, Salman Rushdie, Somerset Maugham, Kathryn Bigelow, Philip Glass, Arundhati Roy, Booker, Joseph Conrad, Conrad, Jacques, ” Conrad, brimming, ’, ’ ”, Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, ” Lispector, Maugham, eludes, Jan van Kessel, Elder, — Pieter Bruegel, —, Rebecca West —, “ Black Lamb, J.R, Hammond, Wells, Rebecca West ”, sloughed, Henrik Ibsen’s, Rosmersholm ”, Karan Mahajan, Salman Toor, what’s, ” Hemingway, Anoushka Shankar, Ravi Shankar, Harold Bloom, Ravi, Uday, René Daumal, Rasa ”, ” Anoushka, Norah Jones, Norah, I’ve, “ Raphael, Rachel Cusk, Italy ”, Perugino, Raphael, Cusk, J.M, Samuel Beckett, Gabriel García Márquez, Thomas Pynchon’s, James Joyce, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Marcel Proust’s, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Read, Emma Kehlbeck, Quinton Kamara Organizations: Amherst College, Elders, Fayerweather, ”, Google, Sunday Times, Somerset, Yugoslavia, The, “, . Locations: Delhi, ”, Massachusetts, Italian, Topeka, Kan, Amherst, New York, London, Patagonia, New Delhi, Torrens, Cambridge, Polish, Ukrainian, Brazil, Flemish, Victorian England, “ H.G, Fairfield, United States, “, East, Lahore, Europe, America, Texas, Side, Manhattan, India, Italy

He was a model to me of artistic labor and discipline, even if those early paintings were painfully amateurish. IT WASN’T MY intention to start an essay about artistic beginnings with a story of artistic death. No one captured the massive cultural and economic disparities of my life in Delhi (and his in Lahore) like Toor. But quite unbeknown to me, Toor’s life in New York had opened up a new vein of material. Not everyone who sees a Michelangelo can go off and paint a Michelangelo.”THERE ARE SO many ways to begin.

☆ ‘The Iliad of Homer’ Review: Emily Wilson Makes Achilles Modern
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( James Romm | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Fresco from Pompeii, Italy, from the first century, showing the entry of the Trojan horse into Troy. Photo: Luisa Ricciarini/Bridgeman ImagesThe “Iliad,” a poem about war, death and suffering on the plains of Troy, has taken a back seat in recent decades to the other Homeric epic, the “Odyssey,” in some ways its sequel. Since the “Iliad” deals with raw violence and a violent fighter, Achilles, whose rage at his own commander centers its loosely organized plot, the less savage and more linear tale of Odysseus’ homecoming has seemed more in tune with the times. Modern writers and filmmakers usually turn to the “Odyssey,” not the “Iliad,” for adaptations, from James Joyce’s “Ulysses” to Uberto Pasolini’s film “The Return,” scheduled for release next year.

Persons: Fresco, Luisa Ricciarini, ”, Achilles, Odysseus ’, James Joyce’s, Ulysses ”, Uberto Locations: Pompeii, Italy, Troy

☆ Theater to See Near N.Y.C. in September: ‘Ulysses,’ ‘The Pianist’ and More
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Laura Collins-Hughes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Here is a chance to see it live, in a McCarter Theater Center-Berkeley Repertory Theater co-production. The play was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2007, when Vogel was on the jury. James Warwick directs the world-premiere production. Directed by John Collins, the company’s artistic director, this world-premiere production instead samples chunks from each of the novel’s 18 episodes, letting them erupt in all their verbosity, vulgarity, vivacity and — it is Joyce, after all — opacity. Cross that with the trans-Atlantic success of “Six,” and you arrive at this production: a Lizzie Borden rock musical with an all-female cast.

Persons: Paula Vogel, underproduced, Davis, Vogel, Donald Margulies, ”, Karen Allen, Reed Birney, James Warwick, Ulysses ’, “, James Joyce’s, Leopold Bloom’s, John Collins, Joyce, Scott Shepherd, Wladyslaw Szpilman, Polanski, Emily Mann, Iris Hond, georgestreetplayhouse.org, Lizzie ’, Lizzie Borden, Steven Cheslik, Tim Maner, Alan Stevens Hewitt, Lainie Sakakura, twhartford.org Organizations: McCarter Theater Center, Berkeley Repertory Theater, McCarter Theater Center , Princeton, Shakespeare & Company, Service, Fisher, New Brunswick Performing Arts Center Locations: California, N.J, Lenox, Dublin, Bard, Annandale, Hudson, N.Y, Polish, Warsaw, New Brunswick Performing Arts Center , New Brunswick, TheaterWorks Hartford, Hartford, Conn

☆ How Merve Emre became the hottest — and most reviled — name in literary criticism
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

Last winter, the 37-year-old literary critic and Wesleyan professor Merve Emre stood in front of a microphone in Rachel Comey's Soho boutique. While the others had largely opted to pull boldfaced names from the Review's archives — like a 1985 Gore Vidal piece about Tennessee Williams — Merve Emre would be reading Merve Emre. Emre has penned so many introductions for new anthologies and reissues that one fan joked on Twitter: "every new baby in 2024 comes with an introduction by merve emre." Courtesy of Merve Emre. Over her cocktail, Merve Emre told me what my profile on Merve Emre should be about.

Persons: Merve Emre, Rachel Comey's, Emily Greenhouse, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams — Merve Emre, Emre, Diane Williams, who's, Everyone's, Elena Ferrante, Jonathan Franzen, Rachel Cusk, Susan Sontag, Michael Roth, Reading Emre, merve emre, John Guillory, Dorothy Parker, Christopher Hitchens, Jon Fosse, Stephanie LaCava, Batuman, Lawrence, Alison Roman, Frank Gehry, Jason Stanley, someone's, they're, Anna Shechtman, Anne, Maggie Doherty, doesn't, Emre Emre, Roald Dahl's, Matilda, Myers, Briggs, you've, I've, Bain, Chris Bierly, I'd, Amy Lombard, Ferrante, She's, Christian Nakarado, Leo Carey, Jason, Nakarado, hasn't, Emre's, Altan, Emre lasered, Ara Osterweil, McGill, Beyoncé, Osterweil, Al Jazeera, sensitively, Ivy pricks, she's, Michael Berube, He'd, he'd, James Joyce, Simone de Beauvoir, Merve, Sarah Chihaya, —, Mary Butts, Leonora Carrington, Susan Taubes, Taubes, Durga Chew, Christian Lorentzen, Orhan Pamuk, Lena Dunham, Chew, Bose, Yale's, it's, she'd, Taylor Swift, Elif Batuman, Swift, Janet Malcolm, Charlie Kaufman, Roth, we're, What's, Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, It's, Elizabeth Morache, Rebecca Zisser, David Bergman Organizations: The New York, McGill, Times, New York Magazine, The, Yorker, Wesleyan University, Reading, Twitter, McGill ,, Wesleyan, Ivy League, Yale, Shapiro Center, Creative, NBA, Harvard, Bain & Company, Insider Yale, HBO, Congress, NPR, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, New York, Yahoo, Oxford, Oxford . McGill, University of Oxford, Penn State, Fordham University, Boston, Intelligence Squared, Yale Science, University, Whitney Museum, Netflix Locations: Rachel Comey's Soho, McGill , Oxford, Columbia, Norwegian, New Haven , Connecticut, New Haven, Adana, Turkey, New York, Cambridge, Montreal, United States, chiseling, Turkish

☆ How Merve Emre became the hottest — and most divisive — name in literary criticism
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

☆ Berenice Abbott Captured Manhattan in the Throes of Heady Change
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Karen Rosenberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If you were an American artist or writer in the 1920s, Paris was where you wanted to be. She had lived in New York once, just eight years before, but in her absence the city had been scaled up: new skyscrapers were rising, the population was exploding, and every block, it seemed, was abuzz with commerce and construction. (The market crash of October 1929 was still many months away). Suddenly, Paris was passé. The exhibition’s focus is a disbound scrapbook with seven to nine photographs per page, all taken over the course of that year, as Abbott paced the streets (and piers, bridges and train platforms) with a hand-held camera and a compulsion to capture New York’s unruly, cutthroat modernity.

Persons: Berenice Abbott, —, Man Ray, James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, “ Bernice ”, Berenice, ”, Abbott, “, Berenice Abbott’s Organizations: Metropolitan Museum Locations: American, Paris, Springfield , Ohio, New York, “, Lower Manhattan, United States

☆ Auction of Charlie Watts' book collection includes signed 'Great Gatsby' first edition
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Amarachi Orie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A collection of first-edition books and jazz memorabilia belonging to the late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts will go up for auction in September. Leading the auction will be a signed first-edition copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." “Charlie built his collection of modern literature and jazz with passion, intelligence and dedication, and this two-part auction celebrates his distinguished collecting taste,” they added. Christie's Images Limited 2023The collection also includes objects that once belonged to jazz legends, including Watts’ favorite saxophonist, the late Charlie Parker, according to the release. Christie's Images Limited 2023Highlights from the collection will go on display in Los Angeles between July 25 and 29 and New York between September 5 and 8.

Persons: Charlie Watts, Scott Fitzgerald, Scott Fitzgerald's, Benedict Winter, Mark Wiltshire, “ Charlie, George Orwell, Agatha Christie, James Joyce, Fitzgerald, Watts, Charlie Parker, Parker, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin’s, “ Porgy, Bess, ”, Charlie, Dave Green Organizations: CNN Locations: London, American, British, Los Angeles, New York

☆ Charlie Watts book collection to be offered for sale at auction
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Members of the Rolling Stones (L-R) Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards arrive for the "Exhibitionism" opening night gala at the Saatchi Gallery in London, Britain April 4, 2016. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/File PhotoLONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - Books and jazz memorabilia belonging to late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts will go under the hammer in a two-part sale in September, auction house Christie's said on Monday. "Charlie Watts: Gentleman, Collector, Rolling Stone – Literature and Jazz" will feature more than 500 lots, with price estimates ranging from 800 pounds to 300,000 pounds ($1,023 - $383,730). Also on sale are rare editions of books by George Orwell, James Joyce, Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. The flagship auction will take place in London on Sept. 28, while an online sale will run from Sept. 15-29, Christie's said.

Persons: Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Luke MacGregor, Christie's, Scott Fitzgerald, Harold Goldman, George Orwell, James Joyce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Watts, Charlie Parker's, Porgy, Bess, George Gershwin, “ Charlie, Marie, Louise Gumuchian, Ed Osmond Organizations: Saatchi, REUTERS, Thomson Locations: London, Britain

☆ Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer-winning novelist known for apocalyptic Westerns, dies at 89
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Daniel Arkin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 16: Writer Cormac McCarthy attends the premiere of "The Road" at Clearview Chelsea Cinemas on November 16, 2009 in New York City. McCarthy's death was announced in a statement by his publisher, Penguin Random House. "Cormac McCarthy changed the course of literature," Nihar Malaviya, the CEO of Penguin Random House, said in a statement. Two novels published in the 2000s — "No Country for Old Men" and "The Road" — drew wide acclaim and found favor in Hollywood. McCarthy published his final two novels in 2022: "The Passenger" and "Stella Maris," interconnected narratives that grappled with morality, science and faith.

Persons: Cormac McCarthy, Jim Spellman, WireImage, Pulitzer, John McCarthy —, McCarthy, Olivetti Underwood, Malaviya, James Wood, King James Bible, Melville, Conrad, Faulkner, Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr, Albert Erskine, William Faulkner, James Joyce, —, Joel, Ethan Coen, Viggo Mortensen, Stella Maris Organizations: Chelsea Cinemas, Penguin Random, Yorker, The New York Times, University of Tennessee, Random, Penguin Locations: New York City, Santa Fe , New Mexico, American, Providence , Rhode Island, Knoxville , Tennessee, Hollywood

☆ A Visit to Italy’s Gorgeous Lake Garda Brings Its Controversial History Into View
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Tara Isabella Burton | Photographs Paolo Prendin For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

But history is complicated on the shores of Lake Garda, a 143-square-mile body of water just west of Verona. In many ways, Garda—its crisp blue water reflecting the nearby Alps—feels like a curiously liminal space. Its northern shores were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until after World War I; even today, German-language street-signs dot the villages along its northern coast. Traces of Venetian architecture abound, remnants of the Venetian Empire’s conquering of several lakeside strongholds. On the southern shore, the beautiful town of Sermione boasts the extant grounds of a Roman villa named after the poet Catullus.

LONDON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - London Fashion Week kicked off on Friday, with organisers dedicating the five-day event to late designer Vivienne Westwood, who died in December. "She is the embodiment of our extraordinary industry," British Fashion Council (BFC) chair David Pemsel told London's Evening Standard newspaper. [1/12] Models present creations during the Paul Costelloe catwalk show during London Fashion Week, in London, Britain, February 17, 2023. Highlights this season include designer Daniel Lee's debut at Burberry, while a BFC initiative with Ukraine Fashion Week will see three Ukrainian designers presenting their creations. "Fashion needs to be continually evaluating what it's giving back," Natasha Bird, ELLE UK’s Executive Editor (Digital), told Reuters.

☆ Italy’s Friuli region is one of Europe’s best kept secrets
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Silvia Marchetti | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

With 13 natural reserves and the pristine park of the Friuli Dolomite Mountains, the region lures tourists seeking to connect with nature or explore the outdoors. There’s also the spellbinding Grotta Gigante, or Giant Cave, one of the world’s largest tourist caverns. Golden beachesThe Grotta Gigante is one of the world's largest tourist caverns. Trieste boasts an unusual segregated beach, with origins dating back several centuries. “Residents are very fond and proud of this place,” says Trieste local Maria Bonacci.

☆ A Cozy Long Weekend in Dublin, a Truly Walkable City
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Matthew Kronsberg | Photographs Al Higgins For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

IF LOS ANGELES FEELS like it was designed for the driver, and New York City for the subway passenger, Dublin, one could say, was made for the pedestrian. It remains true today; few places better suit a weekend of wandering. That a historian can be a local celebrity testifies to the degree to which the past remains present here. Dublin is an ideal place to indulge, since you’ll be sure to walk it off. DAY 1 | SATURDAY8:30 a.m.: Arrive at Dublin Airport, just over 6 miles north of the city center.

☆ ‘Jacob’s Room’: A Young Man Etched in Absence
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Micah Mattix | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

James Joyce ’s “Ulysses” was published in Paris, and T.S. Because of this, Virginia Woolf’s novel “Jacob’s Room,” which was also published in 1922, hasn’t always received the attention it deserves. That some of her later novels—“To the Lighthouse” (1927) and “The Waves” (1931)—are perhaps even more accomplished hasn’t helped. Yet, it was in “Jacob’s Room” that Woolf first experimented with the episodic narrative she would use in “To the Lighthouse.” The novel also contains some of Woolf’s most startling sentences. One character observes that “each word” fell from Jacob’s mouth “like a disc new cut.” That may not always be true of Jacob, but it is of Woolf’s novel, which is full of such coins.

☆ Două creații ale lui Brâncuși au ajuns în top 10 cele mai scumpe sculpturi vândute la licitație (FOTO)
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-04 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +3 min

„La jeune fille sophistiquée” a fost achiziționată în 1955 direct de la sculptor și a făcut parte dintr-o colecție privată până în 2018, când a fost vândută cu 71,2 milioane de dolari la o licitație organizată în New York de Casa Christie’s. Cealaltă sculptură Brâncuși prezentă în Top 10 este „La muse endormie”, realizată în 1913 și vândută cu 57,4 milioane de dolari în 2017, tot la o licitație Christie’s în New York. Creația face parte dintr-o serie de sculpturi „Muza adormită” care se află astăzi în colecțiile unor muzee prestigioase, precum Muzeul Metropolitan de Artă din New York, Art Institute din Chicago sau Musée National d’Art Moderne din Paris. Una dintre „muze” a fost cea care a trezit interesul Americii pentru arta lui Brâncuși, după ce a fost prezentată, în 1913, la Armory Show din New York, în cadrul unei expoziții în care artiștii europeni făceau cunoștință cu iubitorii de artă americani. Cohen a cumpărat „The Rabbit” în 2019, la o licitație a Casei Christie’s, miliardarul fiind atunci reprezentat de Robert Mnuchin, tatăl lui Steven Mnuchin, Secretarul Trezoreriei americane în administrația Trump, scrie Forbes.ro.

Persons: Constantin Brâncuși, Nancy Cunard, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, Brâncuși, Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Man Ray, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Louis Aragon, Alberto Giacometti, Lily, română Alfredo Monteverde, Alfredo, Giacometti, american Steven A . Cohen, Cohen, Picasso, Jeff Koons, Robert Mnuchin, Steven Mnuchin, Trump Organizations: Cunard, Cunard Line, Lusitania, White Star, Art Institute, baseball, Trezoreriei Locations: Atlanticului, Mauretania, SUA, New York, Chicago, Paris, Americii, marche, română, Brazilia, american, baseball New York

☆ Lectură estivală. 30 de titluri de cărți care ar trebui să apară în bibliotecă oricărui cititor în această vară
▼ + stars: | 2018-06-25 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | On N'Est Pas Sérieux | Quand On A Dix-Sept Ans . Apusurile De Soare | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

30 de titluri de cărți care ar trebui să apară în bibliotecă oricărui cititor în această varăÎn pregătirile pentru vacanța la plajă sau lungile zboruri cu avionul, găsește un moment de respiro și așază-te, fie la piscină , fie pe canapea cu o carte în poală și o limonadă rece alături. #diez ți-a pregătit o listă de 30 de lecturi pe care nu le poți trece cu ochii decât de la o copertă la alta! „Viața începe vineri.” „Viitorul începe luni.”#Orhan Pamuk. „Cartea râsului și a uitării”# James Joyce. „Sacrul și profanul”# Mircea Cărtărescu.

Persons: Stefan Zweig, Evgheni Vodolazkin, Kurt Vonnegut, Matei Vișniec, Mario Vargas Llosa, Antoine, Saint, Erich Maria Remarque, Andrei Pleșu, Boris Pasternak, Ioana Pârvulescu, Orhan Pamuk, Giovanni Papini, Gog, Michael Ondaatje, Murakami, Kafka, W . Somerset Maugham, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harper Lee ., J.D . Salinger, Milan Kundera, James Joyce, Eugene Ionesco, Regele, Hermann Hesse, Filip Florian, Mircea Eliade, Mircea Cărtărescu, Albert Camus, Mihail Bulgakov, Margarita, Szpilman Locations: Saint -

☆ (foto) 21 de cărți pe care trebuie să le citești în această vară
▼ + stars: | 2015-05-21 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

(foto) 21 de cărți pe care trebuie să le citești în această varăO vară productivă este atunci când nu doar ai reușit să-ți îmbogățești albumul foto cu diferite fotografii de pe litoralul mării, dar ai reușit să-ți îmbogățești și bagajul cultural cu câteva cărți lecturate în perioada caldă a anului. Astfel, pentru a vă diversifica zilele cu soare, vă propunem 21 de cărți pe care ați putea să le luați cu voi la plajă, la piscină sau la șezătoare la iarbă verde. „Tată bogat tată sărac” – Robert Kiyosaki#6. „Bătrânul și marea” – Ernest Hemingway#8. „Floarea întunecată” – John Galsworthy#17.

Persons: Muntean, Kobo, Maitreyi, Mircea Eliade, Victor Hugo, Tadeusz Dolega, Robert, Boris, Ernest Hemingway, Alexandre Dumas, Emily, Aurelian Silvestru, Gustave Flaubert, Jane Austen, Thomas Mann, Mihail, John Green, John Galsworthy, Ulise, James Joyce, Zina Zen, Vinci, Dan Brown, Guy

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