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The best private art collection in the world?
Richard Farr
  • Oct 13, 2017

The best private art collection in the world?

I never did write a post here about Madrid’s Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, which I finally got to visit for one entire glorious day back in...
Richard Farr
  • Oct 6, 2017

Ishiguro: yes yes yes

Filled with delight that Kazuo Ishiguro has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Nobody could have deserved it more. But I suppose I’m...
On the corner of Kitsch and Scam …
Richard Farr
  • Aug 9, 2017

On the corner of Kitsch and Scam …

Philosopher and critic Roger Scruton, on the shocking possibility that much of the highest-profile, highest-cost modern art is the...
Keats on how to be a genius
Richard Farr
  • Apr 25, 2017

Keats on how to be a genius

Famously: It struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so...
Edward Albee, 1928–2016
Richard Farr
  • Sep 18, 2016

Edward Albee, 1928–2016

A great talent. RIP. In 1996, I had the opportunity to interview him at his home in Manhattan. Along with my introduction, this is what...
Richard Farr
  • Sep 1, 2016

The pen is mightier: “GRAPHIC MASTERS” at the Seattle Art Museum

Such riches, all in half a dozen rooms. These, with apologies for my cell phone, are a few top picks. A famous masterpiece by Dürer,...
Happy 200th, Frankenstein!
Richard Farr
  • Jun 17, 2016

Happy 200th, Frankenstein!

Today, June 16th 2016, is the 200th anniversary of the stormy night in Geneva when Byron told his houseguests they should all try their...
How Not To Get Any Writing Done
Richard Farr
  • Mar 30, 2016

How Not To Get Any Writing Done

Dean Swift’s take on the problem is from On Poetry: A Rhapsody, 1733: Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline; Be...
A visit to the Met
Richard Farr
  • Oct 14, 2015

A visit to the Met

Today I visited New York’s Metropolitan Museum for the first time in six years. Like drowning in cream. I spend almost two hours in the...
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