Reads tagged with “art”
The Annihilation of Space and Time: Rebecca Solnit on How Muybridge Froze the Flow of Existence, Shaped Visual Culture, and Changed Our Consciousness
“Before, every face, every place, every event, had been unique, seen only once and then lost forever among the changes of age, light, time. The past existed only in memory and interpretation, and the world beyond one’s own experience was mostly stories.”
Stunning Vintage Illustrations for Scheherazade’s Stories and Scandinavian Fairy Tales by Swedish Modernist Pioneer and LGBT Visibility Trailblazer GAN
A visionary reimagining of beloved storytelling by the Oscar Wilde of the Scandinavian art world.
W.H. Auden on Writing, Belief, Doubt, False vs. True Enchantment, and the Most Important Principle of Making Art
“We must believe before we can doubt, and doubt before we can deny.”
Duck, Death and the Tulip: An Uncommonly Tender Illustrated Meditation on the Cycle of Life
“When you’re dead, the pond will be gone, too — at least for you.”
Dostoyevsky on Integrity, Success, and the Ultimate Goal of Creative Work
“The artist … must consecrate all his toil to the holy spirit of art — such toil is holy, chaste, and demands single-heartedness.”
Can Goodness Win? George Saunders on Writing, the Artist’s Task, and the Importance of Living with Opposing Truths
“See how long you can stay in that space, where both things are true… That’s a great place to try to be.”
The Storm: A Lovely Illustrated Parable of Fear, the Frustration of Uncontrollable Events, and the Redemptive Power of Surrendering to Life’s Ebb and Flow
A gentle reminder that even life’s stormiest spells eventually come to pass, and although we can’t will them away, we can surrender to the credence that the unclouded blue skies will return.
A Lovely Vintage Children’s Concept Book About How the Imagination Works, Newly Discovered and Illustrated
A poetic game of possibility in the language of shape and color.
Sylvia Plath Reads “Spinster” in a Rare BBC Recording
A subversive lamentation of how our compulsion for control empties life of love.
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