arts + life
- Picasso: Creator and Destroyer
- Picasso's art enacted the violent passions and twisted energies of the twentieth century. So did his life.
- 2008-06-12 to arts, life, painting, picasso, story by bagoly
- The Escape Artist: John Banville on Georges Simenon
- Was he human? In his energies, creative and erotic, he was certainly extraordinary. He wrote some 400 novels, under a variety of pseudonyms, as well as countless short stories and film scripts, and toward the end of his life, having supposedly given up wr
- 2008-06-10 to arts, bestof, books, life, literature by bagoly
- The Rebel Angels
- They came of age—and to music stardom—in the 60s and 70s: Carole King, the sensual Earth Mother; Joni Mitchell, the bohemian risktaker; and Carly Simon, the glamorous iconoclast. Today they are activists, role models, grandmothers. In an excerpt from her
- 2008-03-26 to arts, bestof, books, life, music, story by bagoly
- Calvin to the Core
- When Calvin Klein sold his business, five years ago, he stepped off a four-decade juggernaut that harnessed obsessive perfectionism to a gut understanding of what the American body wanted.
- 2008-03-26 to arts, bestof, fashion, life by bagoly
- LSD Helped Forge Alex Grey's Spiritual, Artistic and Love Lives
- Alex Grey paints souls. His work shows human bodies — rendered with medical-illustration precision — wrapped in layers of sacred energy. Whether you believe Grey's work depicts the reality of divine auras or a particularly vibrant artistic license doesn
- 2008-03-26 to arts, bestof, life, story by bagoly
- The Furious Passions of Norman Mailer
- His life became an 84-year fantasmagoria of fulfilled impulses, and the strange and wonderful knowledge that resulted. Woody Allen once joked that when Norman Mailer died, he'd donate his ego for medical research.
- 2007-11-30 to 10 zen monkeys, arts, bestof, books, life by bagoly
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