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...Even in the early days, I was doing T-shirts and I’d have gallery interest, I’ve just kept expanding. It’s never been one or the other for me....
...So there is a phenomenon called a Shepard tone, which is where you have multiple sounds that are an octave apart each....
...I usually finish with a cup of Ippodo green tea — the perfect way to end the day. Tell us how you’d spend your perfect Saturday in New York in the comments...
...This was a blast when I tried it. But I surfaced a mile from where the dive boat expected to pick me up and I’m not sure I’d do it again....
...“I felt weak and lost, like a screw-up, and at the same time, coming out of it, I felt like I’d been given a huge gift,” he told the New York Times in 2011....
...But I am leaving the FT to pursue a new career outside journalism. I wanted to start today by thanking all of our readers. You have been amazing since day one....
...So I did. But those were some real gems of my do-it-yourself beginnings that I’d like to still have. What is the greatest challenge of our time? Climate change, by far....
...Within six, it had its first Broadway hit: Sinise and Malkovich tearing up Sam Shepard’s True West. “They were a pretty incredible group,” says Steppenwolf’s current artistic director Anna D Shapiro....
...Again he tries not to offend, saying he’d be happy to do blockbusters, so long as they respect the fans....
...“I couldn’t see that there was another world.” Peter Aspden...
...“I was a hopeless actor,” he recalls. “First spear carrier on the left — and I usually got those lines wrong. I ended up working backstage. I got the bug then.”...
...“All my life I’d longed to make a movie the way I read about [John] Cassavetes making one by the skin of his teeth,” he says....
...“When I saw that tax plan I knew right there, that we’d save $50,000 or $60,000 off our taxes next year,” he said, adding that the market rout felt like an expected, and shortlived, correction....
...I’d left it in a local, much-loved bistro. I have a list of suspects — they’re all poets. The following day I found myself in a downpour without an umbrella....
...“I didn’t sleep for five days,” Wenders says, “because I felt that sleeping would be a waste of time. I was in America. I needed to live every second.”...
...I’d never met him but I’d drawn him from imagination. In a way I was glad I hadn’t met him as it would have been too much.”...
...He’d play Bo Diddley and he’d play Mendelssohn.” She too has always lived in a broad universe of music. “I loved R’n’B.” “I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal....
...D*face and Shepard Fairey hang alongside emerging artists and secondary market pieces in this celebration of counterculture and urban environments....
...That surrealism can be incredibly exciting theatrically, but I’ve read plenty and just thought ‘Oh, shut up.’”...
...It’s in 3D, so expect stuff to fly past you, plus stirring music, plus kitsch-rich Trekkie dialogue that might have come from supernova’d telly scripts of long ago....
...As it was, the best players of the evening were, I thought, two real ravens, who’d been trained to fly on and off the stage....
...Smith is more sceptical: “I think some people associate graffiti with something cool or something street or something fashionable but I’d prefer to think that people who buy my stuff aren’t necessarily buying...
...“I went a few years ago. I lost a bet with Sam Shepard. In my memory, I had seen an Eiffel Tower there. He said it was a Moulin Rouge. Sam was right.” And then one final pause....
...“We’d open a show and you’d have people running at you. You’d be trying to sell something to a client and you’d have someone tapping you on the shoulder …saying ‘No, no, I want to buy it’....
...Shepard. Resting here for a moment, I watch a family on the heath below scattering their dear departed’s ashes from a plastic bag....
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