“A solar eclipse will be visible across the UK on Friday, coinciding with the vernal equinox. To celebrate, we look back at how authors have been inspired by this ‘obliteration’ of the sun as well as the onset of spring.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.19.15
If Our Value Were Self-Evident, Would We Need Advocates?
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Extreme Users: Look Outside the Everyday Audience Member
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Research, Reports & Real People Talking About the Arts (Oh My!)
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Everyone’s a Potential Partner: Building Value Together
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What’s Up With The Met’s Lauder Center?
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Mysterious Disappearance: Michael Taylor’s Unceremonious Departure from Dartmouth’s Hood Museum
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How Musicians Conquer ‘Unplayable’ Works
“Classical composers have for centuries been dreaming up pieces so physically challenging they have initially been considered beyond the realm of human capability – until someone comes along and exerts such superhuman effort that they raise the bar for everyone else.”
Can One Web Site Be A Hub For Everything Literary On The Internet?
“Billed as a ‘go-to daily source for all the news, ideas, and richness of contemporary literary life,’ Literary Hub promises curated and original content such as interviews, profiles and essays.” Its founder, Grove Atlantic president Morgan Entrekin, wants LitHub.com to be “salvation rather than competition for the numerous literary Web sites already grasping for eyeballs.”
“Faith-Based” Movies Go Indie – And Some Of Them Are Really Good
Alissa Wilkinson: “As the chief film critic at one of the oldest and most widely read evangelical publications in the world, Christianity Today, I’ve come to realize there is both widespread category confusion in the industry about what constitutes a faith-based audience and ignorance about a burgeoning religious movement in independent cinema.”
The Dangers Of Spiritual Amateurism In America
“Much of the forbidden, obscure, and esoteric knowledge that once made Buddhism and other religions difficult to study has now become accessible – with potentially dangerous results. … This is the spiritual equivalent of giving every teen driver a Formula 1 racing car: It’ll go fast, but many young innocents will end up splattered on the road.”
NY City Ballet To Offer Seven World Premieres Next Season
Two of them will be by the company’s current it-boy, Justin Peck; one will be by another NYCB member, Troy Schumacher, with another by San Francisco Ballet corps dancer Myles Thatcher, a protégé of choreographer Alexei Ratmansky.
Samuel Charters, 85, The First Blues Musicologist
“When [his] first book, The Country Blues, was published at the tail end of the 1950s, the rural Southern blues of the pre-World War II period was a largely ignored genre. His book immediately caused a sensation among college students and aspiring folk performers … [and] created a tradition of blues scholarship.”
Plays That Should Be Seen And Not Read
“The bare dialogue and stage directions give no sense of the unsettling and innovative spectacle that the work becomes in the theatre. Someone … who read the text without seeing it would be in the position of an archaeologist asked to guess the personality of a skeleton.”
Three Women’s Lives Become One Of Iran’s Most Celebrated Stage Dramas
“None has a name, but their [well-known] identities emerge from the tales they tell. Each narrates a monologue, never acknowledging the others. But they have common memories – of childhood, of war – and when their stories cross, one stops and another picks up the thread. They cook as they speak, each in her own kitchen corner, chopping, cutting, mixing … This is Hamhavaie (acclimatising), … which is now being prepared for Europe and possibly the United States.”