https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxY3CzN2Kkc
As Mike Tyson once put it, with characteristic straightforwardness, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Back in the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIDzA0YDso8
Welsh crooner Tom Jones made an unlikely comeback in the late 80s, covering Prince’s “Kiss” with Art of Noise. Then in the mid-90s,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ZMhhquL8c
If you happen to go to the Louvre to have a look at Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, you’ll find that you can’t...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1fiOJDXA-E
Combining pop music with opera was always the height of pretension. But where would we be without the pretentious? As Brian Eno observed...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8dcnh-4I6g
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater is a “house museum,” first designed as a residence, and now open to the public. In fact, as the...
The science fiction genre cannot come into existence until scientific and technological progress has reached a certain point. While we can tell stories...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIqXprCArdo
Miles Davis didn’t put out any studio albums from 1973 until the middle of 1981. In explaining the reasons for this lacuna in...
