Jack Larson, who played Jimmy Olsen on Superman and wrote the libretto for Virgil Thomson’s Lord Byron, is interviewed in the Sturges House, designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939 and bought by Larson and the late James Bridges in 1967:
(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)
Archives for August 18, 2010
TT: The stuff to give the troops
Orson Welles said it, and he was right: “We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.” So it was pleasant indeed to receive this e-mail from a good and gifted friend:
You will survive as much more than a footnote in the Marsden Hartley catalogue.
Brazil and I say so.
True or not, it sure is nice to hear–not to mention inspiring.
TT: Almanac
“The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.”
Paul Klee, diary entry #951 (1915)