Kandinsky "became an insider in the cultural administration of Anatoly Lunacharsky" and helped establish the Museum of the Culture of Painting. However, by then "his spiritual outlook... was foreign to the argumentative materialism of Soviet society", and opportunities beckoned in Germany, to ...
“The Cross” is the spiritual center of “Sign ‘o’ the Times”; after a series of songs about sex and destitution, this meditation on faith-based sacrifice carries a tremendous charge. It’s also a great build song. It starts with a simple guitar riff and then blows out into ...
50 greatest composers of all time: 50 to 41 50 Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) Russian virtuoso pianist, gifted melodist and one of the greats of late Romanticism John Rutter on Rachmaninov Rachmaninov belongs to the aristocracy of composers. He never wrote a piece of music unless he had somet...
trio, and it's not hard to imagine, per legend, that Kurt Cobain dug this record and took notes. Ultimately, the intensity imploded; Fripp broke up the band soon thereafter, following a spiritual path, before reforming it with Bruford years later. But it was never as powerful as this.W...
Pink Floydwere kings of the thematic album between 1973-80, releasing four conceptual classics albums in a row. This one gets special resonance from the spiritual presence of group founder Syd Barrett, who turned up in the flesh during the sessions. They even get funky, and funny, on “Have...
On de la Rocha, Morello said matter-of-factly, "In my opinion, he's the greatest frontman of all time. He's the punk-rockJames Brown." The guitarist continued, "There's no one in the history of Western music that has the sort of totality of spiritual commitment onstage and in the...
In the wake of Eighties trailblazers like Queensrÿche and Fates Warning, Dream Theater became the leaders of American progressive metal in the Nineties. A year after Nirvana released “Smells Like Teen Spirit” with all its crudely simple guitar riffs, Dream Theater held fast to the showy techn...
; A 1993 Romantic Comedy Starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell Is Being Hailed by Religious Leaders as the Most Spiritual Film of All Time. Today, as the US Town of Punxsutawney Celebrates Groundhog Day, ANDREW BUNCOMBE Reports on an Unlikely Parable ...
Presents a list of the 100 greatest American love story movies based on ballots from leaders of the American film community. 'Casablanca', 'Gone With the Wind', 'West Side Story', 'Roman Holiday', 'An Affair to Remember', 'The Way We Were', 'Doctor Zhivago', 'The African Queen', '...
125. All the Nightmares Came Today by Cecily Brown A British painter whose style is reminiscent of the works of Willem de Kooning, Francis Bacon and Joan Mitchell, Cecily Brown creates paintings that combine figurative and abstract motifs involving male and female sexuality. Commenting on her wor...