Robert De Niro and Zaha Hadid are just the most recent examples of high-profile artists to angrily end a session when (rightly or wrongly) they don’t like the drift of the questions. Observer writer Barbara Ellen and Channel Four presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy discuss the question (their answer won’t be a surprise) and their own experiences with walkouts.
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They Made The Wrong Jokes: What Happened To Three Comic-Book Artists In The Arab World’s Freest Country
“Sitting outside, Khouri and Baki tried to make sense of the racket. ‘Every time the door opened, we could hear the General Security guys yelling at Hatem while he tried to explain to them what a comic book was,’ Baki said.”
Christopher Jackson, 67, Montreal’s Godfather Of Early Music
“For generations of Montrealers, the pure tone and clear expression he cultivated with the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, an ensemble he co-founded in 1974, defined the way Palestrina, Victoria, Lasso, Tallis and other Renaissance masters should sound.”
Walter Benjamin’s Legacy, 75 Years On
“For devotees of Critical Theory, he is now seen as one of the founding fathers … having helpfully transcended mere wittering about paintings, books and Mickey Mouse by also sketching a philosophy of history. … And, almost as a hobby, he is the inspirational linkman between the 19th-century flâneur and today’s psychogeographers.”
Banksy’s Dismaland Is Over
“Tourism bosses said the dark attraction brought more than 150,000 paying visitors and £20m to the seaside town. Once dismantled, all the fixtures will be sent to the Calais refugee camp ‘to build shelters,’ its website says.”
Evaluating The Architecture (And Choices) Of Zaha Hadid
“Surely, goes the reasonable argument, an architect’s job is to provide a building that works, meets its brief, and is on time and on budget. It’s hard to argue otherwise, except that this reasoning would have strangled at birth many of the world’s greatest and most popular buildings: the Palace of Westminster, St Pancras station, the Sydney Opera House, the Pompidou Centre, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, most of the work of Antoni Gaudi.”
Writing A ‘Cover’ Of One Shakespeare Tale For The Modern Era, Video Games Included
“To write a cover version of a Shakespeare play is to stay true to the spirit of Shakespeare. As a dramatist he was less concerned with a fixed text that we are. He was a collaborator, an actor-playwright in a company dependent on patrons and box office sales. He knew how to riff on an idea.”
The Lion King Almost Ended In Gladiatorial Pits In Las Vegas
Julie Taymor “wanted to introduce a new villain named Papa Croc who had struck a deal with Scar, the villainous lion from the original story, to buy up all the water in the land. Papa Croc then funneled this water to create a desert oasis: Las Vegas.”
Living Inside The Legendary Parisian Bookstore Shakespeare & Co.
“The Tumbleweeds sleep in beds that have been placed throughout the bookshop — next to the piano, above the Mirror of Love — and there are generally around four people living in the bookstore at a time. One of George’s rules that still remains is that all Tumbles must read a book a day. (They also help open and close the shop, work for two hours a day, and help out with the weekly readings.)”