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Arts RSS FeedsSomeone to Disturb · Hilary Mantel: A Memoir - In those days, the doorbell didn't ring often, and if it did I would draw back into the body of the house. Only at a persistent ring would I creep over the carpets, as if there were someone to disturb, and make my way to the front door with its spyhole. We were big on bolts and shutters, deadlocks and mortises, safety chains and windows that were high and barred. Through the spyhole I saw a distraught man in a crumpled, silver-grey suit: thirties...Feed Source: www.lrb.co.uk Caretaker/Pallbearer · James Wolcott: Updike should stay at home - Where Norman Mailer set out to bend the future with his telepathic powers and the Beats sought to hot-wire the American psyche (at the risk of frying their own circuits), Updike wrote as if he were doing fine draftsmanship under a cone of light, honouring creation and the American plenty. He was the ideal son of a platonic union between John Cheever and J.D. Salinger, with Nabokov attending the christening as fairy godfather. Apparent lack of inn... Is it Art? · John Lanchester on video games - There is no other medium that produces so pure a cultural segregation as video games, so clean-cut a division between the audience and the non-audience. Books, films, TV, dance, theatre, music, painting, photography, sculpture, all have publics which either are or aren't interested in them, but at least know that these forms exist, that things happen in them in which people who are interested in them are interested. They are all part of our curre... If Gaza falls . . . · Sara Roy - Israel's siege of Gaza began on 5 November, the day after an Israeli attack inside the strip, no doubt designed finally to undermine the truce between Israel and Hamas established last June. Although both sides had violated the agreement before, this incursion was on a different scale. Hamas responded by firing rockets into Israel and the violence has not abated since then. Israel's siege has two fundamental goals. One is to ensure that the Pales... Among the Graves · Thomas Laqueur: Naming the Dead - Stonewall Jackson, the deeply neurotic but irresistibly romantic, swashbuckling Confederate commander, thought that the great and swift destruction of life and property seen in the American Civil War was the essence of war generally. But this war was not swift. It was long and gruelling: 425 men, on average, died every day for 1458 days. And like the First World War, the Civil War got bloodier and more destructive as it ground inconclusively on. ... Diary · Tariq Ali: Murder in the Family - If cheating in bed was always settled by the bullet, many of us would be dead. Gerald Martin's new biography of Gabriel García Márquez reveals that Chronicle of a Death Foretold was based on the murder of the novelist's friend Cayetano Gentile in Sucre in 1951. He had seduced, deflowered and abandoned Margarita Chica Salas. On her wedding day Margarita's husband was told that she was no longer a virgin. The bride was sent back to her family home.... Lady Talky · Alison Light on Lydia Lopokova - Why does she want the red shoes? She wants to be special and she wants to be looked at. In Hans Christian Andersen's famous tale, Karen, a peasant girl, goes barefoot in summer and in winter wears wooden clogs that rub her feet raw, but the mirror tells her she's lovely and she thinks that wearing the red shoes will make her feel like a princess. Like selfish Heidi and tomboy Katy, Karen is a mid-19th century girl crippled by egotism. The shoes f... America Concedes · Patrick Cockburn - On 27 November the Iraqi parliament voted by a large majority in favour of a security agreement with the US under which its 150,000 troops will withdraw from Iraqi cities, towns and villages by 30 June next year and from all of Iraq by 31 December 2011. The Iraqi government will take over military responsibility for the Green Zone in Baghdad, the heart of American power in Iraq, in a few weeks' time. Private security companies will lose legal imm... Letters - The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 31 issue 1... Table of contents - Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 31 issue 1... Just for Fun: Wordle -
Here's a fun way to waste an hour. I just love text - my own artwork is full of words. As an art student I would enlarge poetry on a ... Troubleshooting: What's wrong with your drawing? - What do you do when your drawing just 'isn't quite right'? It's a horrible feeling, and one we've all experienced. You spend hours carefully observing, drawing, shading, then you ... Care and Feeding of Your Moleskine Notebook - Last year I attempted to move into the 21st century with a PDA, but got sick of recharging it (or not recharging it and losing my data.) So it got ... Copyright for Artists - Copyright is an absolute minefield these days, so if there's any chance that you're going to sell or exhibit your work, either in a bricks and mortar gallery or online, ... Drawing Fire and Flame - If you're in the Northern Hemisphere and snuggling up by a warm fire, you might want to try drawing fire and flame. This lesson includes tips for simple line-drawing of ... Make a Manga Christmas Card - Bored with those unoriginal mass-produced cards? We have the solution. Draw your own! Guest artist, Shinaebi has created this original Manga Christmas Card design especially for About.com Drawing/Sketching readers. You ... How to Draw Snow and Ice - Here in Australia, we're getting a bit of summer rain - too late to help the farmers, unfortunately - but hopefully enough to dampen down the bushfire risk. So I ... Before You Choose an Art Career - So, you like drawing. Can you make a career of it? Certainly, and contrary to popular belief, it is possible to make a decent living out of art. Not all ... Measuring Up -
Ever wondered what that peering-at-a-pencil thing is about? While it might look like an arcane ritual or secret hand signal, in fact it is a simple and effective method of ... Giclee Printing FAQ - Giclee Printing can be a cost-effective way of making your artwork affordable to the public. While it doesn't have the 'hands-on' originality of traditional print mediums like stone lithography and ... Copyright © 2009, Market Your Sites. All Rights Reserved. |