“Michelangelo was also a skilled forger who made copies of major works before ageing them with smoke and swapping them for the originals.” Wait, what?
Archives for February 9, 2014
How Can Choreographer Paul Taylor Cement His Legacy?
“After six decades in which the Paul Taylor Dance Company existed to dance almost nothing but Paul Taylor works, Mr. Taylor said that he wanted to broaden its mission to include presenting past masterworks of modern dance and works of contemporary choreographers in addition to his oeuvre and the dances he plans to continue to create.”
What’s It Like To Be A Medical Actor?
“You get a script and a paper gown. You get $13.50 an hour. Our scripts are ten to twelve pages long. They outline what’s wrong with us — not just what hurts but how to express it. They tell us how much to give away, and when. We are supposed to unfurl the answers according to specific protocols.”
Sony Leaves The North American Ebook Market And Hands Its Customers To Kobo
As Sony Leaves Ebook Market, What Does This Mean For Barnes & Noble’s Nook?
How The Hell Does The Builders Association Make (Good) Theatre About Technology?
BBC Comedy Has Too Few Women – And Now The BBC Is Fixing That
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.09.14
The Best Artistic Response To “Monuments Men”
Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2014-02-10
Documenting Dance, Part 1
Source: Dancebeat | Published on 2014-02-09
Raising Up the Masses?
Source: We The Audience | Published on 2014-02-09
In defence of BBC Radio 3
Source: Slipped Disc | Published on 2014-02-09
You Are There: Where Burroughs Once Lived in Mexico City
Source: Straight|Up | Published on 2014-02-09
What Will The Broad Museum’s Planned Plaza Do For LA’s Public Spaces?
“The design of the plaza is the most meaningful bit of news here. And that’s not just because Bunker Hill is short on public space that is well-designed and friendly to pedestrians. It’s also because the details of how the plaza will operate — and who will own it — make up a multilayered and in the end rather opaque story.”
So, Romance Novels Thrive On Predictability (Shocker!)
Return The Elgin Marbles To Greece? George Clooney Says Yes
Turning Brainwaves Into Music (Literally)
The British Love Fussy Architecture, Says Guy Who Headed Up The Stonehenge Visitors Center Debacle
As Film Production Leaves LA, Small Businesses That Supply It Fail
Using Music’s Patterns To Create Stronger Spider Silk
How A Space Battle In An Online Game Cost Its Players Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars
“Though it was just a game, the 7,548 people who fought the Battle of B-R could not have taken it any more seriously—and not simply because they lost virtual ships worth more than $300,000 in real-world money fighting it. And it all started when someone forgot to pay the rent on a space station.”
A Life Utterly Devoted To Ballet
China May Raise Foreign Movie Quota By 10
Really, J.K. Rowling, Did You Have To Tell Us You Had Doubts About Hermione And Ron?
Not So Fast: Judge Temporarily Bars Removal Of Picasso Tapestry From Four Seasons
Our Audio And Video History Is Disappearing. Can We Save It?
“Video tape and audiotape is not a stable format. After 40 or 50 years, they are disintegrating. And the information—pictures, sounds on that physical medium—is disappearing. Unlike a piece of paper or a photograph that might last 100 years, media formats are extremely fragile.”
Sure, She Won A Pulitzer, But What Was Maxine Kumin Like In The Classroom?
“The thing that’s depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don’t know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they’ve never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don’t know the difference between lie and lay, let alone its and it’s.”
What Makes A Playwright Qualified To Tell Someone Else’s Story?
We (And Publishers) Need To Figure Out How To Measure Our Time Online
How Can Jazz And Classical Get Some Attention On Streaming Services?
“Services such as Spotify and iTunes don’t handle the more complicated metadata very well, often rendering music in these genres harder to discover and sort. But building a tailor-made private playground cut off from huge pools of listeners is an even worse attempt at a solution.”
Vanska: Minnesota Orchestra Chief Needs To Go
What’s Up With The (Norse) End Of The World?
Broad Museum In L.A. Delays Opening Until 2015
What We Talk About When We Talk About Philip Seymour Hoffman
“I don’t know what demons might be to blame, but as a one-time junkie, I do know that the demons hardly matter. We imagine addiction as a voluntary act, romantic or tragic, depending on our mood. When we try to imagine the scene, we conjure up pictures of the wrong room and the wrong stress; tumultuous men brought low by vulnerability in the face of fear and loneliness.”
