Tennessee Williams's B'Day, Living Without Money, Shadow Art, And More...

March 26, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Happy Birthday, Tennessee Williams! Today is the birthday of Thomas Lanier Williams III, better known by his shorter and much catchier moniker, Tennessee Williams. The American playwright, famous for writing theatrical hits like "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "A Streetcar Named Desire," would turn 102 years old if he were still alive today.  Continue reading... SHADOW PLAY After Insider Trading Payout, Billionaire Spends $155M On Single Painting Artist Lives Without Money For Years 2013 Burning Man Installations Announced Twitter Loves Tilda At MoMA The Met Controversy Continues Before He Was Famous, This Artist Modeled For J. Crew Happy Birthday, Tennessee Williams! Happy Birthday, Tennessee Williams! The Met Controversy Continues MOHAMMED FAIROUZ In the Shadow of No Towers In Shadow of No Towers, my latest symphony, asks why, in our bickering, so much of the world's paranoid discourse has to do with domination, misunderstanding and the gross exaggeration of our differences at the expense of our shared humanity. Continue reading... ANDROMEDA ROMANO-LAX 10 Things I Learned As a Writer From Philip Roth To younger writers who are missing the boat, I want to say: Read Roth. Learn from his oeuvre and from his life, and from how the two have intersected. Learn how a writer can keep pace with America and tell its story as well as his own, again and again. Continue reading... EDDIE PARSONS How to Make a French Fashion Music Video The best way to do something that you are unfamiliar with is to compare it to something you are good at. I am good at making drinks, so all this video needed to be was another cocktail. Continue reading... PHIL CAMPBELL What Would Mel Brooks Do? Here's a piece of art. Will you smash it? Of course you won't. But what if I told you that the art had Hitler's head on it? And what if I told you the artist who made the art was recently exposed as a Nazi sympathizer? Continue reading... THOMAS BäHLER Lights Go On Part II: The Birth of Passion I learned how to read and write music before I learned to read and write English. You might be wondering, why? Were his parents task masters? Was he a child prodigy? Was he forced to learn this? No, no and no. Why then? Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003