“Whether or not artistry is a formal profession in the eyes of the state, and what states do or don’t do to support that profession, reflects different agendas within different political systems. While the American model mostly distributes public funding for the arts indirectly, via tax deductions for nonprofit organizations and their donors, many other governments provide substantial direct support to individual artists.”
Month: July 2016
Midgette: This Performance At Wolf Trap Should Have Easily Sold Out. Why Didn’t It?
“The people who were there, and there were quite a lot of them, screamed and yelled with whole-hearted appreciation. And there were plenty of younger faces among the picnickers on the lawn. But it was far from a capacity crowd. Fewer people than in the past view the chance to hear a star soloist, rising conductor and orchestra in popular repertoire on a warm summer night as a can’t-miss event.”
Scientists Fed 1,700 Novels Into Their Computers And Boiled Down Our Literature Into Six Basic Story Arcs
“Their method is straightforward. The idea behind sentiment analysis is that words have a positive or negative emotional impact. So words can be a measure of the emotional valence of the text and how it changes from moment to moment. So measuring the shape of the story arc is simply a question of assessing the emotional polarity of a story at each instant and how it changes.”
Two Artists Begin Building Trump’s Wall, And Sending Mexico The Bill
“Covered on one side by a large campaign ad for Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, and studded with wilting fruit, flowers, cleaning items and hardware, their wall was meant to symbolize, Mr. Gleeson said, the economic effects that curtailing immigration and closing borders would have on agriculture, industry and domestic life.”
The Booming Business Of Making Movies (On The Cheap) In Cape Town
“This is the first custom-built, state-of-the-art film studio in sub-Saharan Africa, and it’s rapidly becoming one of Hollywood’s favourite places to shoot. It touts itself as ‘the most successful film studio in the developing world’ – a grand claim that might even be true.”
Alison Bernstein Gave Tens Of Millions Of Dollars To Cultural Initiatives At The Ford Foundation
“She was a lively and curious and wonderfully imaginative person, and this all came across in 10 minutes.”
A Fiery Consideration Of Alexei Ratmansky’s Choices For Misty Copeland
“Watching Copeland dance ‘Firebird’ at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, we saw a wonderful ballerina come to terms with a not-so-wonderful role. To begin with, you, Mr. Ratmansky, assigned to other American Ballet Theatre dancers much of the music that Igor Stravinsky composed for her character.”
The New Face(s) Of Second City
“We’re pretty much cradle to grave these days.”
Who Gets Garcia Lorca’s Papers?
“The legacy of Federico García Lorca’s hostilities with government lives on these days through his family, whose members are tangling with officials over control of a new $25 million center built to honor García Lorca, the playwright and poet who was executed by firing squad during the Spanish Civil War.”
When Your Drawing Class Model Is A Sex Worker
“Squeezing in between a young female art student and a hairy guy, I picked up my pencil and waited for the sex to begin. It didn’t.”