Category: Art
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Letter From The Editor #8
We have just surpassed our 500th post and nearing a year of daily features. As the blog is taking shape, we have added more diversity in what we write about here on myworldofinteriors.com – adding music, design, literature, cinema, travel, art and philosophy to the repetoire. Our YouTube channel is growing as well, and you…
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Chapter 45: I’ll Have a Blue Christmas Without You
The boy is vexed that I haven’t seen Love Me Tender, so he takes me to Loew’s that evening. He whispers all the way through, pointing out what he wishes he’d done differently. “We could’ve watched this at home, and you could’ve talked as much as you liked,” I tell him. He looks surprised. “What?…
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The Human Condition According to Ovid
By Bergotte If Homer is the poet of what we lose, Ovid is the poet of what we become. Writing at the height of Roman civilisation and dying at its edge — exiled, cold, forgotten on the shore of the Black Sea — Publius Ovidius Naso produced a body of work that is dazzling, troubling,…
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Chapter 44: God Only Knows
Turns out I’m a little more sensitive than I thought.Thank God for Johnny and his guys taking me out last night. Johnny sees things clearly; he’s thoughtful. We talked about Jerry Lee, “Killer,” as they call him, how wild he is, yet how much of a genius. “He’s like a rock ’n’ roll Mozart,” someone…
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Bret Easton Ellis
Essay · Literature & Ideas The Novelist Who Refused to Flinch Bret Easton Ellis published his first novel at twenty-one and his most notorious at twenty-six, and spent the following three decades being misread by people who wanted him to be either a moralist or a monster, when he was in fact something rarer and…
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The Culture Now: Sudan
The world’s largest displacement crisis has scattered Sudanese artists across three continents — and, from Cairo to Nairobi to Aberdeen, they have kept working Sudan rarely leads a news cycle, which is itself part of the story. Since war broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on 15 April…
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Chapter 43: Million Dollar Quartet
Jerry Lee is playing piano on the session. I chat with Marion, sweet and wonderful as ever, the voice of reason. We listen in. It’s going well until the doorbell rings, and in comes the boy, accompanied by a mature-looking woman with a brown updo. He hasn’t seen me yet, and I consider slipping out…
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Courtney Love
Essay · Music & Culture The Mess That Was Also the Method Courtney Love arrived in the early 1990s indie scene like something the scene had not known it was missing: a woman who wanted to be enormous, who was not prepared to be grateful for whatever space was made available to her, and who…
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Chapter 42: Anything That’s Part of You
Topper has been in Europe, visiting friends from school. He’s sent postcards from everywhere he’s passed through, Athens, the islands, Florence, the Cinque Terre, Monte Carlo, Nice, and Antibes. He writes that he’s happy to be back, and that he needs to see me in Pennsylvania. Tilly’s gone abroad for the semester, studying Modern Languages…
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The Architecture of Fear: Louise Bourgeois and the Art of Survival
She spent seventy years making art about her childhood. She became famous at seventy-one. She worked until the day she died at ninety-eight. Louise Bourgeois was not the most famous artist of the twentieth century, but she may have been the bravest — and the most honest about what art is actually for. By Bergotte…
