“As poets with performance backgrounds rise through the ranks of poetry print culture, American poetry appears caught between a fear of performance and a celebration of it. As these page + stage poets become more prominent in universities, journals, and reading series, are they helping to renew conversations about performance as an aspect of making poems?”
OK, So What’s A LORT?
Unless you’re a theatre junkie, you might not know that hiding behind the acronym is a nationwide organization of almost 75 theatres in all major cities (and many other cities) across the U.S. And oh hey? They pay their actors.
LACMA Wants To Build A Skyscraper (And Maybe Be A Real Estate Mini-Mogul)
“Museum officials envision the tower, rising above a planned Metropolitan Transportation Authority subway station at Wilshire and Orange Grove Avenue, as having a hotel and condominiums. It would also contain LACMA galleries, including a new architecture and design wing and, potentially, architect Frank Gehry’s archives.”
Is This British Theatre’s Top Auteur? (And Is That Why She’s Working In Germany?)
Katie Mitchell: “It may be that the work I make is at times too ‘other’ and so won’t always fit tidily into mainstream culture in the UK. That sense of other could be to do with gender, or intellectualism, or wanting to experiment with form, or simply a feeling of Europeanism. I don’t know.”
Baltimore Symphony Names Markus Stenz Principal Guest Conductor
“The German conductor, who is principal conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, made a sensational BSO debut in 2012.”
Amazon Proposes Giving Authors 100 Percent Of Sales In Dispute With Hachette
The retailer suggested that both Amazon and Hachette forgo “all revenue and profit from the sale of every ebook until an agreement is reached”, saying this might “take authors out of the middle of the Hachette-Amazon dispute (actually it would be a big windfall for authors) and would motivate both Hachette and Amazon to work faster to resolve the situation”.
A Neuroscience-based Music App That Says It Will Boost Your Brain Power 400 Percent
“The app’s premise is that it usually takes us time to focus because of the distracting effect of the environment. Their music has apparently been carefully engineered to reduce this distracting effect. The tunes go through “phase sequences” to ensure that they are neither too relaxing, nor too distracting.”
Creative Placemaking Or Gentrification?
Today in Los Angeles where businesses, developers, museums, and city governance are changing the reception and application of community grown initiatives, I’ve found a similar question worth asking, “Is creative practice gentrifying creative practice?”
What’s Happened To Arts Journalism? Going, Going…
“That art and culture are falling off the organized news media’s map certainly is an affront to those who know and cherish their value, because it translates to a judgment from publishers and content providers that the arts are less worthy of public attention than what else sadly passes for news. Worse, though, in time it has potential to become victim to a self-fulfilling prophecy if everyday people have less access to art and culture, and eventually less incentive to find it.”
Shakespeare In The Parking Lot May Be Out Of Parking Spaces
“Its casual, bare-bones shows downtown contrast with the bigger-budget Shakespeare in the Park, which the Public Theater produces in Central Park. Shakespeare in the Parking Lot patrons sit on folding chairs or the ground.”
Kristin Chenoweth Joins Entrance Applause Debate: Let ‘Em!
“If someone wants to applaud somebody, let them. I get why [people who hate entrance applause] get their panties in a bunch but I just want people to go and experience the show. A good actor is a good actor, and if people want to reward him or her they should.”
Britain’s Museum Of The Year Is A Park In Yorkshire
The Art Fund’s £100,000 prize went to the 500-acre Yorkshire Sculpture Park, which the judges cited as “a truly outstanding museum with a bold artistic vision.”
Conductor May Have To Pay Orchestra For Welsh Proms (Blame The Funding Cuts)
“The conductor of the annual Welsh Proms will have to pay the orchestra fees for this year’s event in Cardiff himself unless most of the tickets are sold. Owain Arwel Hughes is having to act as guarantor for three of the festival’s four orchestral concerts after Cardiff council cut its funding.” (includes video)
The Rom-Com Isn’t Dead, Exactly – It’s A Zombie
“The romantic comedy has created, on top of everything else, a new genre: the obituary for the romantic comedy. … Because the truth is that [today’s] romantic comedies are, as works of art and pieces of culture, terrible. They are usually some ungodly, unseemly, unsexy combination of: stale, trite, silly, and formulaic.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.09.14
Money For Contemporary Art, Boston: Not So Scarce?
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-07-10
Creative Placemaking & Cultural Entrepreneurship
AJBlog: Field Notes | Published 2014-07-10
Jeff Koons Closes the Whitney
AJBlog: Artopia | Published 2014-07-09
AftA Thoughts (2014)
AJBlog: Engaging Matters | Published 2014-07-09
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Got Writer’s Block? Here’s What The Experts Say
“Not all typing is writing, and not all writing is typing; writer’s block subverts far more than the first sentence. Straightforward creative paralysis, or the inability to start typing, is merely the most literal-minded definition.”
How The Music Business Has Changed: So far Only One Album Has Sold More Than One Million Copies In 2014
And, as Billboard and other observers have noted, only three other albums have notched more than 500,000 in sales in 2014.
“A year ago at this point,” notes Billboard, “there were 11.”
Clark Art Institute In Mass. Reopens After Four-Month Closure And 15-Year Expansion Program
The Williamstown museum now has big new exhibition space (much of it underground) that finally enable it to show large-scale 20th-century art and to collaborate with major venues on touring exhibitions. That’s not to mention the one-acre, three-tiered reflecting pool designed by Tadao Ando and Gary Hilderbrand.