Many years ago, and well retired, I was working in my study at home when the phone rang and a voice said, “This is Tom Stoppard. David West put me onto you.” David was the professor of Latin at Newcastle University and it emerged that Tom used him when he had queries about Latin, but
Charismatic, handsome and with a great white shark’s feral cool, Anthony Bourdain was someone that everyone wanted to be. The chef, writer and TV presenter described the premise of his award-winning shows, No Reservations and Parts Unknown, as “I travel around the world, eat a lot of shit and basically do whatever the fuck I
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The Uncool wants to be as honest as that teenager
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Creativity in proximity to genius without its obligations
Monet also captured another element of the open air: smog
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His new exhibition at the Guggenheim is a sour birthday party
The Met’s exhibition shows that the artist tried to destroy everything human about himself