What this article reiterates to me is that it will always be the job/vocation/duty/calling of the artist to create and it will always be the job/duty/vocation/calling of the critics, “the explainers” as Hemingway called them, to debate and argue the value of the artists’ work, regardless of whether it has been valued and/or accepted by the society/ culture in which it was created or not. What I say to myself and to other artists is to create away, find your audience and let the critics figure out the rest.

Was Chagall actually any good? – Telegraph.


What is the eternal lure of Gatsby you ask ? Quite simply, its his penchant for dreaming of a better place than the one he is living in.  And that is something we can all relate to as Americans and as human beings, especially now in these tough post 9-11 days we are living in.

BBC News – A Point Of View: Gatsby and the way we live now.