Art & Individuality

Fiona Apple via Garbage, Bob Dylan, Liz Phair, Leonard Cohen & Tanita Tikaram

Fiona Apple via David Bowie, Magazine, Joy Division, Pete Townshend, The Cure

Peter Maxwell Davies’ score for ‘The Devils’ is one of the finest in all cinema. A look back at his career.

Every woman articulates the feminine in the way she dresses (and undresses) her body. The artistry of Kate Moss consists in making the feminine luminous…

Trusting only in his artistry, faithful to no Muse but his own, in each album Bowie stretches out a tightrope and walks it.

In the sidereal realm where she broke down in tears, what angel was there to hear her cry?

Language aims at transparency. Sexuality defies transparency. Joe, in speaking of her sexuality, is, on one hand, authentic and engaged, and on the other hand, doomed to ‘misrecognize’ what she is talking about.

Each time I listen to the quintet’s albums, I am struck by their freshness, timelessness and sense of excitement, and I marvel at how such collectively-created music bears the stamp of one man’s individuality.