Makers & Rooms Ivan Van Mossevelde built a house of raw concrete in the Flemish countryside in 1972 for an art collector who filled it with Judd and Sol LeWitt. Decades later, a young architect spotted it through the trees during a walk, was refused entry, and spent years waiting for it to come toContinue reading “Living in Silence”
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In Times of Dragons: Tori Amos and the Mythology of Now
By Bergotte The opening line of Tori Amos’s eighteenth studio album is a command: “Shush yourself, down now.” It comes from the album’s antagonist — the “sadistic billionaire Lizard Demon husband” from whose penthouse the album’s protagonist is fleeing — and it is the most precisely chosen opening gambit she has made since the firstContinue reading “In Times of Dragons: Tori Amos and the Mythology of Now”
Ted Turner, the Last Great Madman of Television
Ted Turner, who has died aged 87, was one of the last media titans who seemed less the product of a boardroom than of a novelist’s imagination. He was loud, reckless, brilliant, vulgar, idealistic, impossible, visionary. When he founded CNN in 1980, he did not simply launch a television network. He altered the nervous systemContinue reading “Ted Turner, the Last Great Madman of Television”
Happy 80th Birthday To This Legend
John Waters at 80: The Last Great American Trash Intellectual By Bergotte For more than half a century, John Waters has made an art of what polite culture tries to throw away: vulgarity, deviance, low glamour, bad taste, and the people condemned for possessing any of them. At 80, he looks less like a relicContinue reading “Happy 80th Birthday To This Legend”
My World of Interiors 