Using more than 120 art works displayed in 10 thematically arranged galleries, the show reveals how readers, artists, and patrons have responded to Genji during the past 1,000 years.
Krissi Murison, the NME editor, visited Cowell in "the enemy's lair" – his palatial office in Sony Music's London HQ – to pose largely hostile questions sent in by readers, artists including La Roux and Johnny Marr, plus a few of her own.
A remarkable portrait of the original damned poet, Arthur Rimbaud reinvents a figure who continues to captivate readers, artists, and writers across the world.
The drawings also give the reader the artist's interpretation of how the dinosaur looked.
The best stuff here collapses the distance between reader and artist, either by stripping away distinguishing details or by opening the story to broader concerns.
I know that sometimes the truth has to hurt, the review has to entertain a reader – and artists' sensitivities can go hang.
A wide range of readers—architects, artists, planners, historians, journalists, lawyers, mayors, legislators, policy makers, and general readers—surely will learn much from this book.
The solution we came up with was for me to take along readers' and artists' questions so that we could be the voice of the people going head-to-head with Simon.
He suspected the book might be posthumously released, which indeed it was, and conceived it not as a last will and testament of his formal work but as a means for readers (mostly artists and designers, although his sense of visual humor will appeal to anyone) to see the commonplace as a wellspring of invention — his prescription for triggering the creative process.
There are YouTube video-creators who've racked up millions of views; bloggers with millions of readers, visual artists whose work has been appropriated and spread all around the world, such as the photographer Noam Galai, whose screaming self-portrait has found its way into everything from stencil graffiti to corporate logos, all without permission or payment.
Below are 44 art studios submitted by our dear readers and artists, each one unique temple to creativity.
