Ira Glass

Sister Wendy: Art Changes But It Doesn’t Get Better

April 1, 2010

Sister Wendy Beckett is a bonafide nun with a considerable knowledge of and contagious enthusiasm for art. I recently had the delightful opportunity to watch her documentary, The Story Of Painting. One of the things that really struck me the first time I watched it was an early scene in which she visits some early cave paintings and muses over the nature of art.

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Honeymoon And The Gap

March 23, 2010
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It’s one thing to discover you’re in ‘the gap’, and yet another to realise the honeymoon is over. What’s the solution when you’re taking two steps forward and three back?

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Good Taste And The Gap

March 10, 2010

Ira Glass, host of This American Life, talks in terms of good taste – that passion and understanding you have of your artform – and the gap between that good taste, that thing that you aspire to, and your current abilities.

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