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Big Shiny Robot: Neil Gaiman, J.K. Rowling and the fall of beloved creators
With more and more of our favorite artists publicly turning into monsters, it's getting difficult to know where the line needs to be drawn in separating the art from the artist.
With more and more of our favorite artists publicly turning into monsters, it's getting difficult to know where the line needs to be drawn in separating the art from the artist. It used to be easy. You didn't have to know anything about an artist or hear about them at all, and could just enjoy art as you encountered it.
However, with the age of the internet, social media, tabloids and 24-hour news coverage of celebrity bowel movements (thanks TMZ!), we are much more intimate with details of the private lives of these artists—both in terms of their opinions, and the horrible deeds they may have…
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