“We asked the staff to turn down the music, and they just stared at us and said we needed to talk to the manager, who was not there. There were about five readers, and a cluster of people who wanted to hear them. TV screens were locked on some kind of game, the music was blasting. We were trapped. And then, hats off to the late David Poindexter, publisher of MacAdam, he grabbed a chair and hoisted it over his head, and we all followed him through the bar and out onto the sidewalk.”
Month: October 2015
Dismantled Banksy ‘Dismaland’ Parts Head To Refugee Camp In France
“It has all been taken down now and we are left with huge sheets of wood which we can use to build the shelters. Dismaland is also sending a team of chippies and builders out to the camp, who will be creating any structures that we need with the materials.”
Artwork To Honor And Protest The Missing 43 Students In Mexico
“In this environment, the 43 have become more than just a number, they have become a symbol of everything that is wrong with Mexico’s corrupt ruling classes, a breaking point for a people who have had enough.”
If Broadway Saved NY, What Can Theatre Do For Chicago?
“Are there lessons here for Chicago? Sure there are. But it’s worth noting first that what one urban reformer sees as an improvement, another sees as the destruction of an indigenous culture. Riedel barely notes this issue, since the theater owners are the heroes of his story, but if you walk through Times Square today, as I frequently do, it has lost much of its character. “
New York Arts Groups Come Asking: Spare A Few Billion?
“It’s the kind of boom that can be stirring for art fans but that raises questions about how all this money can be raised simultaneously, particularly when foreign markets have created some financial uncertainty. It’s also not clear the city will continue to be as generous toward cultural capital projects as it was under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.”
What Does It Really Mean To Be Politically Diverse In Theatre?
The divide between liberals and conservatives is not in what we value, but how those values are expressed. So why are there no (or practically no) conservative voices in theater when they are so prominent elsewhere in society? When we say we want diversity in theater, do we really mean it?
Why Is Washington’s National Symphony Such An Underachiever?
“When you go to an NSO concert, you never know what you’re going to get. Sometimes, you get very good playing. Other times, you hear unpardonable sloppiness, sections drowning each other out in a soup of sound that you don’t expect from professionals. It’s curious that an orchestra with so much talent is still able and, in some sense even willing, to sound like such a mess. There are three places to look for the problem — and its solution.”
Why The London Symphony Won’t Miss Gergiev
“Tributes to what he has achieved during his eight years at the helm have been conspicuous by their absence so far, and it seems unlikely that there will be the kind of fond farewell that many conductors receive when their tenures with an orchestra come to an end.”
As Virtual Reality Becomes A Thing, What Are The Art Possibilities?
So Oculus Rift offers incredible possibilities for science fiction and horror cinema, not to mention brainless action films. Wait until James Cameron gets his hands on this shit. But what about artists?
Svetlana Alexievich – A Difficult Translation
Listening to the people who lived through some of the greatest political tragedies of the 20th century, she seeks to “chase the catastrophe into the framework of the everyday and try to tell a story”.