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Arts RSS FeedsGazillions · Neal Ascherson: Organised Crime - Karabas was gunned down in 1997. He and his mob had taken over the port city of Odessa as law and order disintegrated in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse. One might call his reign a comprehensive protection racket. But, looked at in another way, Karabas became the only reliable source of authority and social discipline. He arbitrated the city's commercial disputes (10 per cent of net profits was his price); he kept the drug peddlers to one...Feed Source: www.lrb.co.uk An Element of Unfairness · Ross McKibbin on the Great Education Disaster - The modern history of English secondary education begins with the 1944 Education Act, usually known as the Butler Act. It was, for better and worse, the most important piece of education legislation of the 20th century, but was expected to reform an educational system already deeply divisive and inequitable. In some ways it promoted the hopes of wartime democracy; in others it betrayed them. It raised the school-leaving age to 15 and made seconda... Kick over the Scenery · Stephen Burt on Philip K. Dick - When an art form or genre once dismissed as kids' stuff starts to get taken seriously by gatekeepers - by journals, for example, such as the one you are reading now - respect doesn't come smoothly, or all at once. Often one artist gets lifted above the rest, his principal works exalted for qualities that other works of the same kind seem not to possess. Later on, the quondam genius looks, if no less talented, less solitary: first among equals, or... Diary · Jenny Diski: On Not Liking South Africa - The 'you can't understand until you've lived there' argument had kept me from visiting South Africa quite effectively. If being there would make me understanding of apartheid, I preferred to stay away. But now it had to be a very different place, 18 years after Nelson Mandela walked free from prison, 14 years on from the day when South Africa had its first democratic election. I was going to be there anyway - Cape Town was the end point of anothe... Plato Made It Up · James Davidson: Atlantis at Last! - Of all the many disappointments of 1977, the ITV series Man from Atlantis has to be one of the greatest. The title suggested a programme that would have something to do with the lost underwater kingdom described in great detail by Plato in the Timaeus and Critias. But the reality was Patrick Duffy with webbed hands and fluorescent green contact lenses, painfully painted on. Sole survivor of Atlantis, he used his special powers, notably the abilit... The Olympics Scam · Iain Sinclair: The Razing of East London - In the mornings, there is a clinging, overripe smell that some people say drifts in from the countryside, a folk memory of what these clipped green acres used, so recently, to be. Mulch of market gardens. Animal droppings in hot mounds. The distant rumble of construction convoys. The heron dance of elegant cloud-scraping cranes. Flocks of cyclists clustering together for safety, dipping and swerving like swallows. Hard hats and yellow tabards mon... Diary · Thomas Jones: The Last Days of eBay - Around the turn of the millennium, one of the friends of friends' bands whose gigs I used occasionally to go to in the basements and back rooms of North London pubs was an indie guitar group called Keane. One Friday night in the early summer of 2001 at the Monarch on Chalk Farm Road, my girlfriend gave their manager (an ex-boyfriend of hers) a couple of quid for a homemade CD. 'That'll be worth a lot of money one day,' he said. I assumed he was j... Up from the Cellar · Nicholas Spice: The Interment of Elisabeth Fritzl - On 1 May, only five days after news broke that a 73-year-old man, Josef Fritzl, had immured one of his seven children, his 18-year-old daughter Elisabeth, in a specially fortified cellar under his house in the small town of Amstetten in Lower Austria, and kept her there for 24 years, abusing her persistently and fathering seven more children on her, Elfriede Jelinek, Austria's Nobel Prize winning novelist, posted a short essay on her website unde... Letters - The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 13... Table of contents - Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 13... Pencil Drawing Lesson - Using a Pencil - Are you getting the most out of your pencil? Those marks on paper are your means of communication with your viewer. To make sure they speak eloquently, there are a ... Charcoal Drawing Exercise: Soft Volume - Charcoal is often used for gestural drawing and lends itself well to expressive mark making. However its rich, velvety black tones can also be used for atmospheric effects and subtle ... Artist Quotations - Often reading something from another artist or writer can strike a chord that sets off your creativity. Sometimes you find statements that express ideas that you haven't been able to ... Before You Buy Drawing Equipment - If you are just starting out, or are buying art supplies for someone who is, take a look at this guide to the 'extra kit' you need for drawing. Drawing ... Theories of Modern Art - Review - Herschel B. Chipp's 'Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book By Artists and Critics' is an essential reference for anyone interested in the evolution of modern art. Nothing ... Negative Space Drawing - Using negative space correctly can give your drawing a huge boost. Negative Space is essentially about seeing: it describes how you look at the scene before you. You are looking ... Maiden with a Unicorn - Now here's an Old Master drawing you just have to see. Our Art History site featured this image on 'Wordless Wednesday' - da Vinci's 'A Maiden with a Unicorn. It's ... Draw and Sketch Tree Frogs - Here are two tree frogs to draw. The first one uses basic ovals to create a simple, cute frog ideal for DIY clipart, or you can use the same approach ... John Wolseley's Australian Eye - John Wolseley has been one of my favorite Australian painters for years. He gave a guest lecture when I was a student at art school, and I was tremendously excited ... What a Pity: The World's Biggest Drawing, Isn't. - Ever behind the times, I just read an interesting little article in Wired about Swedish artist Erik Nordenenkar's GPS and DHL Delivery drawing. It's such a pity - a ... Copyright © 2008, Pinellas County Real Estate. All Rights Reserved. |