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The film and the recording revealed a frail man, his mobility and speech compromised by the crippling sclerosis that had probably hastened his decision to leave the music business.
Tyson embodies the moral ambiguity of boxing’s rich tapestry: brutal and beautiful; entertaining and repellent; dishonorable and inspiring.
Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary each paid a high price for defying convention. They both entered into relationships out-of-wedlock at a time when doing so was enough to put a woman out of good society.
I’m grateful to every straight director, actor, and writer who has taken up the cause over the last 60 years, and to their closeted friends and colleagues who inspired them.
A society worth having rests on our willingness to co-operate, to be able to depend a little on the kindness and civility of strangers.
Beethoven is a truly odd target for progressive critics, because his views on geopolitics are known to have been, by the highly regressive standards of his time, quite progressive.
Artists and scientists have a reductionist’s idea of one another and perceive the other as a threat.
The lines spoken by the white men on stage were excerpted from responses to her Times article.
The Hagia Sophia was the brainchild of a unique figure in history.
Dyer hated the way Bacon painted him and watched with incredulity as rich collectors bought one huge, violently distorted portrait after another.
How is art meant to happen when everyone is supposed to be thinking the same thoughts? Art goes against the grain. It’s the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.
Once word got out that this year would be the curtain call for the two introductory Western art courses, students stampeded to enroll.
I honestly have no idea why any actor would want to appear in a serious play featuring protagonists who are not, in some way, “screwed up.”
For Camus, great art develops between the two chasms of frivolity and propaganda, where every step forward is a dangerous one.
Every man should be free to invite others to regard him as a woman without fear of inviting violence, discrimination or the loss of basic rights. That is what being protected from transphobia means.