The “one-man Renaissance” led quite the forging life. “Greenhalgh’s talent was broad: one month he was an Egyptian granite carver, the next an impressionistic sculptor, the next an American watercolourist.”
An In-Demand Commercial Illustrator Got ‘Left Behind’ By The Internet, But Now He’s Cool Again
Paul Leith could adjust to fax machines, but not to computer design. Now he makes art from felt – and doesn’t miss being told what to do by clients.
Writer Nora Ephron Set Her Sister Delia Up With A Man When They Were 18, And 54 Years Later, They Got Married
But, writer Delia Ephon notes, this isn’t a romantic comedy. A cancer diagnosis intruded into the story.
The British Airways ‘IT Problem’ Meltdown Strands Curtis Institute Musicians In London
The first of two groups got as far as the gate when all flights were suddenly canceled, which looks like it was the right thing to do: “When members of the first Curtis group finally got through passport control — as if they were reentering a country they never actually left — they found their luggage right where they had checked it. Apparently, the conveyor belts didn’t even work.”
How Instagram Helped Poet Rupi Kaur Find Her Audience – And Sell 1.4M Books (So Far)
The 24-year-old Canadian poet became famous when Instagram banned a self-portrait in which she was lying on her bed, with sheets stained by menstrual blood. That banning got her 1.3 million followers to the site, where she publishes poetry and illustrations. She credits social media for its openness: “I used to submit to anthologies and magazines when I was a student – but I knew I was never going to be picked up. All their writing was, you know, about the Canadian landscape or something. And my poem is about this woman with her legs spread open.”
Old Vic, Nearby Pubs Evacuated Due To Terror Threat
Tensions remain high after the bombing of a pop concert in Manchester. “On social media, theatregoers said they and the cast had been moved to the nearby Imperial War Museum gardens.” The police later said the incident was “not suspicious” but didn’t elaborate.
Russian Law Enforcement Targets A Controversial Theatre Director
This does not look good. “At the storm’s center is Kirill Serebrennikov, the virtuoso Russian stage director behind Moscow’s innovative, and often controversial, Gogol Center theater. … With the company’s actors still detained by masked officers in the theater on Tuesday, hundreds of supporters from artist and journalist circles began gathering outside, among them former members of the punk protest band Pussy Riot and loyalist film directors like Fyodr Bandarchuk.”
The Summer Music – Especially Opera – Competition In The UK Is Pretty Fierce
There are betrayals, arguments, backstabbing … and it’s all good for those who love to watch classical music outside in the summer. “Rival conductors’ batons may not yet be clashing in combat, and it has not quite come to picnic-hampers-at-dawn, but there is a new and marked element of serious competition between the growing number of rivals.”
Talking With Singer Charlotte Church About Growing Up In The Spotlight
Yikes. “Church, 31, has been famous for nearly all her life. The cautionary tabloid narrative is well-worn, and like most fairy stories it contains not a little misogyny. She became famous at 11 as the little girl who could sing arias, the ‘Voice of an Angel’. She soon became public property.”