“Pundits use Kabuki as a synonym for ‘posturing.’ … But how did Kabuki, one of Japan’s most revered arts, come to signify loathsome fakery? Kabuki escaped derision only so long as no one had heard of it. The Japanese initially considered it too difficult to export; indeed, seeing a Kabuki play cold is like tuning into Lost midseason.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Every Word David Foster Wallace Circled In His Dictionary
“What’s notable about the list is that along with many three-dollar words that seem rather difficult to pronounce (witenagemot), DFW also marked up more run-of-the-mill entries like the ones for bisque and tennis. … Did he circle bisque while writing ‘Consider the Lobster’? We’ll never know.”
WSJ Readers, Renee Fleming Says She’s Available
“At one point during the interview Ms. Fleming said she wanted to perform at private concerts–for corporations, say –but started to explain that they are difficult to slot into a schedule booked so far in advance. ‘Oh, wait,’ she said, stopping. ‘This is for The Wall Street Journal, right? I would love to do more private concerts.'”
A Winning, Hidden Property Of Printed Books
“I love the typefaces and the bindings and the feel of well-made paper. But what I really love is their inertness. No matter how I shake ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,’ mushrooms don’t tumble out of the upper margin, unlike the ‘Alice’ for the iPad.”
The Arts People, Hats In Hand, On Capitol Hill
“The sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday were serious yet chummy” as “a parade of cultural agency administrators … appeared this week before the House Appropriations subcommittee that controls the purse strings of the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Gallery of Art, the Kennedy Center and others.”
EU Rules For Dali Family, Against Spain In Royalties Case
Dali “left all of his intellectual property rights to the Spanish government when he died in 1989,” so “[a] group set up to collect royalties for Spain sued its French counterpart in 2005 to reclaim some resale royalties paid to Dali’s heirs” for sales of his paintings in France. The European Court of Justice sided with France.
Why 3-D TV Isn’t A Trend With Traction
It’s the little things, like the exorbitant cost of outfitting a home for 3-D viewing and our habit of doing lots of other stuff while we watch TV. “And it’s not just multi-taskers: Does the average American family really want to sit in their living rooms watching ‘American Idol’ wearing dark glasses?”
Anatomizing The Evolution Of A Play
At its Philadelphia opening in January, Terrence McNally’s Golden Age “was obese, indulgent”; at the Kennedy Center in March, it was “shorter by 40 minutes” and “had acquired punch, and charm.” It’s “an example of the way new American theater can evolve when an estimable playwright and a high-level theater company with access to talent and money are involved.”
Deal: De Young Museum Will Keep Most Of Its Oceanic Art
But 29 pieces “will be sold to help settle a cross-country legal drama that involved sweeping philanthropy, a bitter internecine spat over money, and a $25 million loan from Sotheby’s that helped amass what is considered the world’s most important private collection of tribal objects from Papua New Guinea.”
Latest Venture For De Niro’s Tribeca: A Chicago School
Tribeca Enterprises “has taken a 50 percent interest in the Loop-based two-year digital media vocational school Flashpoint: The Academy of Media Arts and Sciences,” which “will be known as the Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy as it opens a virtual pipeline between the 75,000-square-foot Clark Street facility and Tribeca’s New York headquarters.”