“With an odd, unjust circularity, being a published writer was the very thing that enabled me to continue to be one.”
Month: July 2016
The Legal Troubles Of The Brothers Who Are Antique World Stars
“Their behavior in recent months has been oddly out of sync with their stature as antique world luminaries. A buying spree this spring left them with nearly $600,000 in debt and spurred legal action from two auction houses. More bizarrely, in several instances during one auction, the brothers, who are partners in at least one business, bid against each other. Their competing efforts sent the price of routine items soaring.”
Musicals Are Everything Right Now, But How Did We Get Here?
You know how: “There’s no doubting that Miranda’s smart, sharp, multi-Tony-award-winning retelling of the life of the man on the $10 bill, from his Caribbean childhood in St Kitts and Nevis to his untimely death in New York’s Greenwich Village after a duel, is reaching parts other musicals can only dream of, thanks to its inventive combination of thoroughly modern music and a good old-fashioned tale of ambition, jealousy, desire and despair.”
Where Is This Election Year’s Shepard Fairey?
“As the 2016 campaign season enters the nominating stage — the Republican National Convention opens on Monday in Cleveland; the Democratic National Convention follows the next week in Philadelphia — no image even approaching the power or reach of Mr. Fairey’s poster has emerged.”
Wonder Woman Needed A Woman To Direct It, Says Its Star, And Here’s Why
“For a long time, people didn’t know how to approach the story. When Patty and I had our creative conversations about the character, we realized that Diana can still be a normal woman, one with very high values, but still a woman. She can be sensitive. She is smart and independent and emotional. She can be confused. She can lose her confidence. She can have confidence. She is everything. She has a human heart.”
The Punk Rock Elementary School Teachers Who Served As The Ghostbusters Band
“How did a little-known, do-it-yourself band wind up in Hollywood blockbuster? It started with Halloween costumes.”
Grafitti Bombing With The Artists In Hong Kong
“The main mission of the night was to paint a highway spot. I quickly lost track of where we were as we drove through canyons of high-rises and tangles of highways, occasionally glancing a prominent throw-up or a tag on a roadside structure.”
Broadway’s Love Affair With Hip Hop Goes Way Beyond ‘Hamilton’
Or at least, hip hop’s love affair with Broadway goes back way before Lin-Manuel Miranda even had one major hit show (don’t miss that time rapper k-os opened a track with a sample from Sound of Music’s nun chorus).
The Best Photos Of The Century-Old Theatre That Became A Bookstore
“In 2008 El Ateneo Grand Splendid was named the second most beautiful bookshop in the world by The Guardian, and that’s no surprise.”
Visual Artists Respond To The Horrific Attack In Nice
“As was the case after the attacks on Charlie Hebo and Paris, the artwork is raw, cathartic, and essential.”