These are the real deal, distinguished by a humble acknowledgment in the face of art, and they don't happen all that often.
It's possible that "Friday Night Lights" even brings on museum fatigue, a sense of uselessness and enervation in the face of art that doesn't need us.
There he edited the magazine Heretick with another softy, John Betjeman; half a century on, Betjeman would become the popular, cuddly face of art appreciation, Blunt (who always made Betjeman feel "trivial and shallow") its academic, reviled face.
Before Robert Mapplethorpe's untimely death from AIDS in 1989, he utterly changed the face of art photography, by challenging the idea that pictures are just an image, extending ideas of beauty onto controversial territory.
As much as anyone, Mr. Scull and his wife, Ethel — a fashion plate and socialite whom everyone called Spike— created the market for Pop, making it the occasion for lavish parties, an emblem of high society and the new face of art in the 1960s.
I love Sydney in any time period, but the flux of the post-war decades fascinates me particularly; my character Henry's discomforts and discoveries, his bewilderment in the face of art and love grow out of my interest in the excitement and confusion of this time.
