aRUDE: art + kulture
VANESSA BRANCH
I believe that actors can become better for sure. But I do believe that it is a talent and something you are born with. That’s the same with anything though. You can go to see many doctors, some may be good and others great, or financiers, anything you can learn but some people are born with specific gifts.
MICKALENE THOMAS
I am so grateful that I get to spend my time pursuing a career that is thoroughly rewarding on so many levels that I really don’t know what else could offer this kind of satisfaction in my life.
FRANKLY SPEAKING
Happiness always fluctuates. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I really try and find it in everything because it IS there.
MARLENE DUMAS
South African born artist Marlene Dumas has been called “one of the hottest names in contemporary art.” Working in a style that has been called “neo-expressionist” and “conceptualist,” Dumas creates lush, often disturbing and unnerving images of racial, sexual, and cultural subjectivity.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY
“Is there anything you want to tell us about previous convictions?” I racked my brains. I didn’t have any convictions - not even the sort that they meant. “That is not what we know about you.” By now my brow was a corrugated mess. Thinking plays havoc with one’s foundation.
MARTA HALLETT
Working from a cozy office in her sprawling Central Park West home, Marta Hallett has established Glitterati Incorporated as one of the leading boutique illustrated book publishers in the country, providing a sophisticated mix of stylish titles, which enjoy a vibrant life outside the crumbling book industry.
MALCOLM DANIEL
Sometimes we like to pretend that it doesn’t matter (usually after a lukewarm review!), but of course you want others to share your enthusiasm for your subject and to feel that you’ve presented it in a beautiful, intelligent, enlightening way.
10 QUESTIONS FOR SOOK JIN JO
Instead of being discouraged when a professor and leading contemporary artist dismissed this choice as “not good art material," I saw in his dismissal an undeveloped land, something to be explored and developed.
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