Venice: Pure City
by Peter Ackroyd
Venetians knew how to cut loose. During the eighteenth century, the masked revelry of Venetian Carnival lasted the better part of six months. Throughout Venice: Pure City, Peter Ackroyd returns to the idea of Venice as a city of masks….
by Matthew Frank
painting by Gino Parin
Open your life, piggishly, my love,
for the lid has been burped. You take
the spatula from me, say, the Eastern
Peter Alexander, born in Los Angeles in 1939, is an artist of the Light and Space movement, known for his resin sculptures and rich paintings and prints. His work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A longtime friend of Christopher Isherwood’s, Alexander joined Zócalo to talk about the writer’s life in Los Angeles. Below, he takes our In The Green Room Q&A.
Antonio Damasio is David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Neurology, and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. He is author several books including Descartes’ Error and, most recently, Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain. Below, he takes our In The Green Room Q&A.
Despite living for years with Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy never once peeked at his diaries.
“We agreed that we mustn’t give each other access to our diaries because we become self-conscious,” said Bachardy, a painter and Isherwood’s lifelong partner, who started keeping his own diary at Isherwood’s suggestion.
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