Suzanne Frischkorn's Blog, page 28
July 29, 2010
Great News
Congratulations to Justin Evans!
Symphony
You know, the problem with writing as an Art is that everyone can write, meaning anyone can use a pen on paper to write sentences, or a keyboard, etc. But even if someone knows how to write music or put some paint on canvas, it doesn't invite the odd belief in huge groups of people that they can write the next major Symphony or exhibit their paintings in a top-notch gallery. But writing is
July 28, 2010
why walk, when you can dance?
You could say they're bringing ballet to the people, but beyond that, they are showing the versatility of the effect of ballet and its most talented stars. Not just swans on stage, these ballerinas make a street fence near the Williamsburg Bridge or a crosswalk in the East Village look suddenly full of life, color, and beauty begging the inevitable question -- why walk, when you can dance?
July 27, 2010
July 26, 2010
And the related question, Why?
Not the easy, self-loathing, adolescent why? but the why? of the artist who knows only too well when she is telling the truth in her work and when she is lying, however beautifully or with what technical finesse. Why go there, why put myself through that? Wasn't it painful enough the first few times around? The contempt one has, early on, for the "made" writers who phone it in while happily
The Lovely
Michelle McGrane features Girl on a Bridge at Peony Moon today~*
July 24, 2010
July 23, 2010
Work of Art: Recap
Episode seven of Bravo's Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, was titled "Child's Play," but what it should have been called was "The Exhausted Twenty-Somethings Look Haggard, Offer Up Revelations in a Desperate Attempt to Make Anyone Care About Their Incredibly Boring Art." It begins, as usual, with a montage of US Weekly-inspired "Just Like Us" moments: in this installment we are made privy to
July 22, 2010
Hilarious!
Dear Paris Review,I recently received a letter that you un-accepted my poems "Villianelle for My Pit Bull (who Died)" and "Rallying Against Feminism While the Moon is Full." I didn't quite understand what that meant until I talked to two other poets, JC and DN, who told me at first it might be a joke, that they didn't receive a letter and there was nothing to worry about.As you know, they, too,
