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...
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Richard Farr
- Oct 5, 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...
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...
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...
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
- Aug 31, 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,...
Richard Farr
- Jun 16, 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...
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...
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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