Though it’s tentative – and though both sides say it will change during the working out of details – the orchestra association and the performing arts hall basically have a new agreement.
Month: April 2012
Marianne Faithfull, Art Curator – And Fabulous Beast
The singer, who will play in Brecht’s The Seven Deadly Sins this autumn and who curated a show that just opened at Tate Liverpool, says she’s trying to find some sort of peace. “What has happened in the past 10 years or so, and what has been my goal for as long as I can remember, is to bring me and Marianne Faithfull into some semblance of harmony. It was her doing drugs and drinking, her inside my head, so it has been tough. The Fabulous Beast, that’s what I call her.”
Game of Thrones: Is Fantasy Truly Ready For The 21st Century?
Both in book and T.V. form, Game of Thrones inherits the conventions of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings – shifty, savage dark people surround the British-like Westeros. But there’s a catch: The white people are at least as savage.
Adrienne Rich Was More Than A Poet Of Rage (But She Was Good At That Too)
“While Adrienne Rich, who died on Tuesday at 82, was indeed an inspiring cultural force, she was at bottom a writer of poems. And the defiant political stands for which she became famous are entirely consistent with that identity and its long American heritage. (John Greenleaf Whittier was inveighing against slavery in his poems at considerable personal risk right before the Civil War.) But for Ms. Rich, as for any real poet, the question is always: How do we read her work not as social history, but as poetry?”
What Publishers Should, Or Could, Learn From “Pottermore”
The Harry Potter e-books came online this week, and publishers need to take note – and change their ways. “If book publishers could only learn one thing from the Pottermore launch, it should be this: that one of the biggest drivers of piracy is the inability to find or consume the content that a user wants in the format or on the platform or at a time they wish to consume it.”
Tim Rice Talks Superstar and Evita – And The Future
With two Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber revivals opening on Broadway this season, the lyricist talks about how he’d like to play Pilate – but how he’s probably a lot more like Judas.
Where’s The Gender Revolution? Not In Literary Fiction
Meg Wolitzer: “I don’t need to remember anything about signifiers to understand that just like the jumbo, block-lettered masculine typeface, feminine cover illustrations are code. Certain images, whether they summon a kind of Walker Evans poverty nostalgia or offer a glimpse into quilted domesticity, are geared toward women as strongly as an ad for ‘calcium plus D.’ These covers might as well have a hex sign slapped on them, along with the words: ‘Stay away, men! Go read Cormac ÂMcCarthy instead!'”
Is John Berger’s Ways of Seeing Still Relevant?
Berger’s 1972 show (and accompanying book) “demystified high art, repackaged it in terms that related to everyday life, and proved that a love of great paintings need not be elitist but could co-exist with communitarian values. Today, social and political contexts are so integral to our reading of a picture or story that it is easy to forget how revolutionary Berger’s stance was.” But in an age of Damien Hirst, does Berger matter anymore?
Want To Inspire Your Male Dancers? Show ‘Em Some YouTube
Harper Watters, who joined the Houston Ballet in 2009, recounts his journey – and how online videos made a big difference to his training.