Deyan Sudjic, director of the Design Museum London and a London native, gave up his childhood dream of being an architect as a young man. “I realized it was my patriotic duty never to build anything,” he joked. Sudjic, author of The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects
Why is it that a piece of decorative art sells for 10 times less than a painting from the same period, and of the same quality and intensity as the artwork?
“One of them,” Deyan Sudjic said to the packed crowd at the Getty Museum, “is cursed with the burden of utility, and the other is not….
by Federico García Lorca
He lay in the street, dead,
a dagger through his heart.
No one knew him.
How the lamp shook!
Mother.
How the little street-lamp shook!
James Joyce fans celebrate Bloomsday every June 16. It was that date in 1904 on which Joyce set the events of his opus Ulysses, constructed around a day in the life of Leopold Bloom. June 16 was also the day that Joyce had his first date with his future wife Nora. Below, an excerpt from the “Calypso” episode of Ulysses, which includes the first appearance in the novel of Bloom, his wife Molly, and the first time he hears a sound that haunts him throughout the story — the jingling of the ornaments on their bed.
Irish poet William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin on June 13, 1865 and published more than 400 poems in his lifetime. Known for his distinct lyrical style and his role in the Irish Literary Revival, Yeats was also a prominent figure in the Irish political sphere. Many of his poems dealt with issues of patriotism, and Yeats himself was appointed to the Irish Senate in 1922. Yeats received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923….
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