Richard FarrOct 13, 2017The 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 FarrOct 6, 2017Ishiguro: yes yes yesFilled with delight that Kazuo Ishiguro has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Nobody could have deserved it more. But I suppose I’m...
Richard FarrAug 9, 2017On 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 FarrApr 25, 2017Keats on how to be a geniusFamously: It struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so...
Richard FarrSep 18, 2016Edward Albee, 1928–2016A 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 FarrSep 1, 2016The pen is mightier: “GRAPHIC MASTERS” at the Seattle Art MuseumSuch 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 FarrJun 17, 2016Happy 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 FarrMar 30, 2016How Not To Get Any Writing DoneDean Swift’s take on the problem is from On Poetry: A Rhapsody, 1733: Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline; Be...
Richard FarrOct 14, 2015A visit to the MetToday 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...