We went to a very artistic party, & everyone was talking about the Art of the Television Commercial.
By Gerald Jonas The New Yorker, February 18 , 1967P. 31 We went to a very artistic party, & everyone was talking about the Art of the Television Commercial.
From pom-pom beds (above) to wider, weirder tableau (below) to the mysterious Squirrel King himself and his minions, The Squirrel King is shaping up to be a promising artistic party.
As he saw it, his wasn't a glamorous life of artistic pursuits, endless parties and trendcasting.
The ritual celebrations of artistic achievement — the book parties, the opening-night parties, the artists' dinners — give outward form to, and briefly make real, the writer's or performer's or painter's fantasy that he is living in a world that wishes him well and wants to reward him for his work.
Not the least interesting thing about "Frozen Assets" is that Forbes reproduced it in February, 1932, with a skittish text that hailed Rivera — "perhaps, the first great painter of the modern American continent" — for having chosen artistic freedom over Party orthodoxy, while retaining "the fundamental human loyalty which he had originally believed Communism to express".
I had no idea this artistic dark erotica party had even existed until that strange night.
The glitz-free artistic tenor of Milan parties continued with Tina Brown's in the Galleria d'Art Moderne.
The material he's assembled is riveting, portraying Herko's New York as a place of skuzzy apartments and glamorous parties, of artistic ferment and promiscuous gay sex.
The preconditions for democracy are lacking in the Arab world partly because Hosni Mubarak and other Arab dictators spent the past half-century emasculating the news media, suppressing intellectual inquiry, restricting artistic expression, banning political parties, and co-opting regional, ethnic and religious organizations to silence dissenting voices.
