“Billy Joel, bald and glistening, looks like a big, smooth stone, as if the years and the sorrows, like so much water, simply polished its surface but failed to penetrate its core.”
Pork Chops and Apple Sauce: Appraising the Brady Bunch’s Art Collection
Uh-oh: Looks like the Russkies are growing an army of woolly mammoths.
George Saunders in the Guardian: “Simply knowing one’s intention and then executing it does not make good art.”
Ted Gioia on the importance of actually owning music.