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Since the 1998 publication of his last book of poetry, Void of Course, Carroll has been writing furiously but without focus, simultaneously working on two novels. One, tentatively titled The Petting Zoo, is the story of a young painter in New York. Carroll is keeping details of the second novel under wraps. All he will say is it resulted from a “great epiphany” years ago and that he “almost sold it as a film to somebody, but I didn’t want to do that...
...Petting Zoo follows “a hotshot painter” who has a nervous breakdown after viewing the work of seventeenth-century Spanish painter Diego Velazquez at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. As Carroll explains, “he thinks he sees in Velazquez’s work a spiritual element…and he thinks his paintings and those of his contemporaries are spiritually bereft.” The young painter then spends 72 hours in a psychological observation unit–“because they can do that if they think you?...
What's more surprising, finding a classically trained composer at M.I.T.'s Media Lab or discovering that his research there has produced a Fisher-Price toy? Either way, it is hard to question the pedigree of Symphony Painter, a new kind of electronic music software designed for the Color Pixter electronic sketchpad. The brainchild of M.I.T. professor Tod Machover, Symphony Painter ($20; fisher-price.com Color Pixter sold separately) combines visual arts and music: you draw a picture and then press the triangular play button to hear a musical interpretation of your artwork. Experienced musicians might predict some outcomes: lines curving...
...formal notation systems are restrictive. "You would never tell a 5-year-old to imitate an existing painting," he says. "You just give them paint and guidance and let them do the rest." Although there's no definitive evidence that electronic music toys help kids become better musicians, Symphony Painter does make composing fun--and that may be music to some parents' ears. --By Wilson Rothman
With respect to Painter Calcagno's remarks [Oct. 17] concerning the death of Paris as a painter's city: I think perhaps a young artist might confuse gallery-saturated Paris' failure to get excited vapors over his work with the arthritis of art he speaks of . . . But if he is looking for a rich and rewarding atmosphere in which to work and grow, it is still worth the boat trip. I wouldn...