The Arts & Language
Art begins where language fails
The
Arts
Art
is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it. - Vladimir Mayakovsky
The Arts in
Materials
Speech: Why bother? – 6th Annual Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address
When
is the end
of the Millennium?
A reply to Pru Goward's view on ethics, business and philanthropy
Links of interest
ABC Radio National
Books at Amazon Books
Chunky Move:
Current ideas at Arts & Letters Daily
Fine chamber music Musica Viva Australia
New book of drawings by Kate Durham
New Music Network website
New York Times Review of Books
Other issues about Patronage of the Arts
Malthouse Theatre,
LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents
guarding another's treasure. - Ambrose Bierce
Links of Interest
One-look: a terrific way of checking many English
dictionaries at once
Another selection of on-line dictionaries
The King’s English (FW & HG Fowler): on-line at Project Bartleby
A selection of Samuel Johnson’s writings
Arts and Letters Daily: the best collection of the best writing about ideas
Comment and articles about language at The Vocabula Review
Download a list of Books about language
Good language articles at Take Our Word For It
Language at HELICOM
Language reference works at Bibliomania
Read Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary
Read and download stories by Saki (H.H. Munro)
See The Atlantic forum on language (well worth joining - it’s free)
Visit "Wanted Words" at CBC Canada