The Creative Life

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  Dealer’s Hand

  The New Yorker - Nick Paumgarten

  Very important people line up differently from you and me. They don’t want to stand behind anyone else, or to acknowledge wanting something that can’t immediately be had. If there’s a door they’re eager to pass through, and hundreds of equally or even more important people are there, too, they get …

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  Spot On

  The New Yorker - Peter Schjeldahl

  The art of Damien Hirst puts me in mind of a New Yorker cartoon by Peter Steiner, from 1997. One of two vultures on a bare branch argues, “Sure, dead is important. But it has to taste good.” That finicky gourmand speaks to my sense of “The Complete Spot Paintings, 1986-2011,” an archipelago of shows …

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  The New Yorker

  Aug 5, 2015
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  Banksy Was Here

  The New Yorker - Lauren Collins

  The invisible man of graffiti art. The British graffiti artist Banksy likes pizza, though his preference in toppings cannot be definitively ascertained. He has a gold tooth. He has a silver tooth. He has a silver earring. He’s an anarchist environmentalist who travels by chauffeured S.U.V. He was …

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  The Misfit

  The New Yorker - Judith Thurman

  Does it really matter what one wears? I sometimes think my life might have been different if I had chosen the other wedding dress. I was getting married for the second time, and until the overcast morning of the ceremony I dithered between a bland écru frock appropriate to my age and station, which …

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  Forty-one False Starts

  The New Yorker - Janet Malcolm

  How does the painter David Salle know when to stop? How does the author know where to start? It’s all a question of process. There are places in New York where the city’s anarchic, unaccommodating spirit, its fundamental, irrepressible aimlessness and heedlessness have found especially firm …