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Why Irish Novelist Colm Tóibín Doesn’t Want To Be Called A Storyteller

WORDS Posted: April 13, 2014 11:03 pm

Why Irish Novelist Colm Tóibín Doesn’t Want To Be Called A Storyteller

“A particular problem with English people: they seem to think that everyone in Ireland is a writer, and very few of us are writers. And that somehow or other writing comes naturally to us, which it doesn’t. So people love saying to you, “‘h, you Irish—you’re such MAR-velous storytellers, all of you!'”

Read the story at Hub (Johns Hopkins) Published: 04.02.14

Is This The Most Powerful Piece Of Film Criticism Ever Written?

MEDIA Posted: April 7, 2014 6:49 am

Is This The Most Powerful Piece Of Film Criticism Ever Written?

The piece “shows that criticism is art, which means that it doesn’t need a purpose or a rationale other than truth, or beauty, or keeping faith, or doing whatever it is we think art is trying to do.”

Read the story at The Atlantic Published: 04.02.14

British Theatres Can’t Afford To Book Touring Companies

THEATRE Posted: April 6, 2014 9:20 pm

British Theatres Can’t Afford To Book Touring Companies

“When I see smashing new theatres that have come up in the last few years that are now just providing one-nighters, it’s tragic. I don’t know what you do about that – it is a huge, huge problem.”

Read the story at The Stage (UK) Published: 04.02.14

Why There Needs To Be a ‘Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations’

ISSUES Posted: April 4, 2014 12:41 am

Why There Needs To Be a ‘Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations’

Retha Powers, editor of the newly-published first edition, says that people ask her, “Why have this book if we have a President who is black? Is it really necessary for us to do this?” She says that the reason is to add stories to our collective memory: “The lens through which we look at history, when it’s narrow, tells us a very, very narrow story, a narrow impression of what the truth is.”

Read the story at The New Yorker Published: 04.02.14

Where Dance and Boxing Meet

DANCE Posted: April 4, 2014 12:35 am

Where Dance and Boxing Meet

In choreograher Mourad Merzouki’s Boxe Boxe, “as the protagonists come into the ring (complete with stripe-shirted umpire), boxing mitts turn into glove puppets, a dancer’s body curves in a feline swoop only to be caught in a firm headlock, and limbs jab, swipe and kick while a string quartet roams the stage.”

Read the story at The Guardian (UK) Published: 04.02.14

This Dance About Boxing Uses an Actual Ring and Bell

DANCE Posted: April 4, 2014 12:33 am

This Dance About Boxing Uses an Actual Ring and Bell

“The brainchild of Amsterdam-based, Italian-born choreographer Emio Greco and Dutch dramaturge Pieter C. Scholten, Rocco explores brotherhood, masculinity, and the mythology of boxing, while pushing its four male dancers to physical extremes.”

Read the story at Georgia Straight (Vancouver) Published: 04.02.14

Canada’s Stratford Festival Posts A Banner Year – And A Big Surplus

THEATRE Posted: April 3, 2014 10:35 am

Canada’s Stratford Festival Posts A Banner Year – And A Big Surplus

“The Stratford Festival has generated a surplus of $1.4 million and an increase in attendance of 50,000 theatregoers in 2013, a year after posting a deficit of $3.4 million.”

Read the story at CBC Published: 04.02.14

Meanwhile, In China An Army Of Artists Cranks Out Reproductions Of Masterpieces

VISUAL Posted: April 3, 2014 9:01 am

Meanwhile, In China An Army Of Artists Cranks Out Reproductions Of Masterpieces

“The cost of the burgeoning reproduction industry mirrors other facets of China’s explosive growth. Painters toil for long hours to meet quotas. Some receive monthly stipends, some are lucky enough to be boarded by their galleries.”

Read the story at Wired Published: 04.02.14

The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries

WORDS Posted: April 3, 2014 8:36 am

The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries

“A new, lavish coffee-table book, Libraries, pays homage to 44 of these vaults of wisdom around the world. In these photos, spines of shelved books appear like ornate mosaics; labyrinthine stacks seem like architectural gestures.”

Read the story at Fast Company Published: 04.02.14

Is Better TV Killing Movies?

MEDIA Posted: April 3, 2014 8:28 am

Is Better TV Killing Movies?

“We stay in for amusement and leave the house for dinner. Film will always be dominated and controlled by what consumers are buying.”

Read the story at Adobe Airstream Published: 04.02.14

The College Essay That Got This Student Accepted At Every Ivy League College (Hint: He’s A Violist)

PEOPLE Posted: April 3, 2014 6:12 am

The College Essay That Got This Student Accepted At Every Ivy League College (Hint: He’s A Violist)

“My haven for solace in and away from home is in the world of composers, harmonies, and possibilities. My musical haven has shaped my character and without it, my life would not be half as wonderful as it is today,” he writes.

Read the story at Business Insider Published: 04.02.14

Stolen Gauguin and Bonnard Were in Sicilian Autoworker’s Kitchen

VISUAL Posted: April 3, 2014 12:56 am

Stolen Gauguin and Bonnard Were in Sicilian Autoworker’s Kitchen

“A pair of paintings by French artists Paul Gauguin and Pierre Bonnard that had been missing for four decades has been recovered by Italian authorities who said that the works of art were hanging in a kitchen of a retired Sicilian autoworker who was unaware of their value.”

Read the story at Los Angeles Times Published: 04.02.14

Can High-Tech Speed-Reading Work? Should It?

WORDS Posted: April 3, 2014 12:54 am

Can High-Tech Speed-Reading Work? Should It?

The creators of the app Spritz argue that “only around 20% of your time is spent processing content. The remaining 80% is spent physically moving your eyes from word to word.” They mean to reverse those percentages. If they’re right, what does that mean for how we experience the written word?

Read the story at The New Yorker Published: 04.02.14

Knoedler Forgery Lawsuit Adds Art Historian as Defendant

VISUAL Posted: April 3, 2014 12:52 am

Knoedler Forgery Lawsuit Adds Art Historian as Defendant

“A respected Swiss art historian and curator has been drawn into the legal tangle surrounding the sale of dozens of high-priced forgeries by the shuttered New York art gallery Knoedler & Company.”

Read the story at The New York Times Published: 04.02.14

We Still Need You, Monuments Men!

ISSUES Posted: April 3, 2014 12:50 am

We Still Need You, Monuments Men!

Bonnie Burnham, president of the World Monuments Fund, argues that the Middle East in particular – especially Syria – needs the help of those heroic men and women to save the region’s irreplaceable cultural heritage.

Read the story at The Wall Street Journal Published: 04.02.14

Tales From Paupers’ Graves

THEATRE Posted: April 3, 2014 12:50 am

Tales From Paupers’ Graves

“Every year, thousands of paupers’ funerals – for those without the means to pay for burial – take place across the UK. The Nine O’Clock Slot pieces together the stories of those who die alone.”

Read the story at The Guardian (UK) Published: 04.02.14

Are Comedians Really Depressives?

PEOPLE Posted: April 3, 2014 12:46 am

Are Comedians Really Depressives?

“One of the most enduring stereotypes in all of comedy is of the road-weary, alcohol-soaked, and/or drug-addled comedian. Certainly there is a long line of victims.” (The L.A. comedy club the Laugh Factory even has an in-house therapy program.)

Read the story at Slate Published: 04.02.14

Orthodox Jewish Dancercise Is Now a Thing

DANCE Posted: April 3, 2014 12:45 am

Orthodox Jewish Dancercise Is Now a Thing

“On a crowded dance floor, a group of 50 women are swaying, stomping, lunging, and gyrating to singer Jason Derulo’s ‘Talk Dirty,’ Pitbull’s ‘Don’t Stop The Party’, and other popular numbers blasting over loudspeakers. It could be any trendy New York club, except here the dirty words and sexually explicit lyrics are missing from the raps, and no men are allowed. Ever.”

Read the story at The Wall Street Journal Published: 04.02.14

Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.02.14

AJBlogs Posted: April 2, 2014 9:50 pm

On the Value of the Arts
AJBlog: Field Notes | Published 2014-04-03

Delaware Art Museum’s Deaccession Debacle: My Q&A with Its Former Director, Danielle Rice
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-04-03

Betsky Asked To Leave Early?
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-04-02

Disassembling something that nobody owns
AJBlog: The Artful Manager | Published 2014-04-02

The choir who came in from the cold (for Joyce DiDonato)
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-02

Read the story at AJ Blogs Published: 04.02.14

Cleveland’s Downtown Rebuilding Using Theatre

THEATRE Posted: April 2, 2014 9:21 am

Cleveland’s Downtown Rebuilding Using Theatre

“Today PlayhouseSquare manages more than 2.3 million square feet of office and retail space in northeast Ohio. Just under half of that is in the PlayhouseSquare district, which includes five historic theaters, dating back to the 1920s, that after decades of neglect were renovated as part of a 27-year, $55 million campaign of public and private funds.”

Read the story at The New York Times Published: 04.02.14

Karen Joy Fowler Wins 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award

WORDS Posted: April 2, 2014 8:05 am

Karen Joy Fowler Wins 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award

It’s for ”We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.” The $15,000 prize honors the best work of fiction published in the preceding year by an American.

Read the story at Washington Post Published: 04.02.14

Data Don’t Support Hollywood’s Biases About Women

MEDIA Posted: April 2, 2014 7:00 am

Data Don’t Support Hollywood’s Biases About Women

“We found that the data doesn’t appear to support the persistent Hollywood belief that films featuring women do worse at the box office. Instead, we found evidence that films that feature meaningful interactions between women may in fact have a better return on investment, overall, than films that don’t.”

Read the story at Five ThirtyEight Published: 04.02.14

Where Are Today’s Compelling Novels About Poverty And Inequality?

WORDS Posted: April 2, 2014 6:54 am

Where Are Today’s Compelling Novels About Poverty And Inequality?

“Despite our recession-era reckoning with economics and inequality, fiction that examines both the macro and micro experience of poverty is all too rare. Of the writers who do venture forth in the tradition of John Steinbeck, many are finding new and riveting approaches to an age-old subject. But there are crucial gaps, still. And as brilliantly as Steinbeck wrote about poverty, we cannot rely on him to comprehensively tell today’s story.”

Read the story at Pacific Standard Published: 04.02.14

Americans for the Arts: Early Bird Discount Ends Friday

sponsored post Posted: April 2, 2014 6:07 am

Americans for the Arts: Early Bird Discount Ends Friday

The Americans for the Arts Annual Convention in Nashville this June 13-15 is your opportunity to learn from and network with more than 1,000 arts professionals from across the country. [read more]

Read the story at Americans for the Arts Published: 04.02.14

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