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Voices In Time

1939 | New York City

David Selznick Gives a Damn

“Gone with the Wind” must not be censored.More

Voices In Time

1896 | Nizhny Novgorod

Life Devoid of Words

Maxim Gorky witnesses the dawn of film.More

Voices In Time

1832 | Missouri

Painting Little Bear

George Catlin’s portrait problems.More

Voices In Time

1954 | Washington, DC

Guidelines

Establishing a comic book code.More

Voices In Time

1827 | Weimar

The Universal Possession of Mankind

Goethe considers the ubiquity of poetry.More

Voices In Time

1853 | Paris

Grand Tour

Harriet Beecher Stowe appreciates the defects of the masters.More

Voices In Time

1849 | New York City

American Idol

Fighting over Shakespeare at Astor Place.More

Voices In Time

1644 | London

Lifeblood of a Master Spirit

He who destroys a good book, writes Milton, kills reason itself.More

Voices In Time

2005 | New York City

At the Blackboard

Kurt Vonnegut diagrams the shapes of stories.More

Voices In Time

1765 | Paris

Skill Sets

Diderot on the hard work of a painter.More

Voices In Time

1821 | Pisa

Root and Blossom

Percy Bysshe Shelley defends poetry’s divinity.More

Voices In Time

1757 | Paris

Definition

What are the qualities of a genius?More

Voices In Time

1831 | Paris

Writing in Stone

Victor Hugo explains the language of architecture.More

Voices In Time

c. 1630 | Seville

Iconography

An Immaculate Conception paint by numbers.More

Voices In Time

c. 25 BC | Rome

Practice and Theory

Vitruvius defines the relationship.More

Voices In Time

1919 | England

Test of Time

T.S. Eliot on the necessary extinction of personality.More

Voices In Time

1889 | St.-Rémy-de-Provence

Vincent van Gogh Looks Back

“I shall never do what I might have done.”More

Voices In Time

1961 | Provincetown

The Innocent Eye

Why painting is hard to do.More

Voices In Time

1970 | Washington, DC

Elvis Presley Is on Your Side

Richard Nixon takes a meeting with the King.More

Voices In Time

1848 | Edinburgh

Loose Screws

Chopin visits the British Isles.More

Voices In Time

1908 | Perugia

Shivering Fragments

Virginia Woolf seeks symmetry through discord.More

Voices In Time

1711 | London

Half-Formed Insects on the Nile

Alexander Pope takes on his critics.More

Voices In Time

1995 | Los Angeles

Robert Towne on the Plight of Screenwriters

The difficulty of maintaining the cinematic illusion.More

Voices In Time

1922 | Chicago

Up North with the Greats

Louis Armstrong makes a dream come true.More

Voices In Time

c. 550 BC | Athens

By the Scroll

Peter Quince picks the parts.More

Voices In Time

1913 | Moscow

Wassily Kandinsky Replaces the Object

“The creation of works of art is the creation of the world.”More

Voices In Time

1834 | Japan

Practice Makes Perfect

The best is yet to come for Hokusai.More

Voices In Time

c. 335 BC | Athens

Story Line

Aristotle devises a perfect tragedy.More

Voices In Time

c. 50 BC | China

Power of Music

“Where there is music there is joy.”More

Voices In Time

c. 1165 | China

Chirping Insects

Renouncing the distraction of books.More

Voices In Time

1778 | Paris

A Pleasant Surprise

For Mozart, the waiting was the hardest part.More

Voices In Time

1859 | Lucerne

Money Order

Richard Wagner asks for a little encouragement.More

Voices In Time

c. 680 | North Yorkshire

Divine Inspiration

God gives man the art of song.More

Voices In Time

1956 | New York City

Callous Disregard

An open letter on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim design.More

Voices In Time

c. 1400 | Japan

The Puppet on a Cart

Inside the Noh actor’s studio.More

Voices In Time

1573 | Venice

Artistic License

Mary Magdalene and a dog. More

Voices In Time

1976 | New York City

Lee Quinones Does the Cars

The story behind a graffiti masterpiece.More

Voices In Time

c. 415 BC | Athens

High Compliment

Zeuxis fools the birds.More

Voices In Time

1777 | Paris

Second Opinion

Christoph Willibald Gluck indulges his critics.More

Voices In Time

1889 | London

Direct Impression

Henry James pens a letter on life, liberty, and the novel.More

Voices In Time

1939 | New York City

Umbilical Cord of Gold

Clement Greenberg on the changing role of the avant-garde.More

Voices In Time

1853 | Venice

Everlasting Laws

“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression.”More

Voices In Time

c. 1885 | Russia

Discouraging an Author

Anton Chekhov escapes an intolerable situation.More

Voices In Time

c. 1075 | China

The Inner Bamboo

Su Shi tries to capture nature’s true spirit.More

Voices In Time

1937 | Berlin

Artifactitious Stammerings

The art Hitler hated.More

Voices In Time

c. 18 BC | Rome

How to Begin

Horace tells Homer to get to the point.More

Voices In Time

c. 1975 | Toronto

Turning His Back on the Audience

Glenn Gould leaves the concert hall for the recording studio.More

Voices In Time

c. 1845 | France

Gustave Flaubert Conducts a Workshop

Playwriting for dummies.More

Voices In Time

1843 | London

Outline and Shadow

“Do you know anything about that wonderful invention of the day, called the daguerreotype?”More

Voices In Time

1509 | Vatican City

Injured on the Job

Michelangelo’s labor pains.More

Voices In Time

1973 | New York City

Blue Chips

Pop Art profit making.More

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