Except that the prize at the festival of Dionysus wasn’t a statuette. It was a live goat.
Author: Matthew Westphal
London’s Wigmore Hall Will Live-Stream Concerts Starting Next Season
“Music venue Wigmore Hall is to undergo a £2 million refurbishment that will see the creation of new rehearsal spaces and enable the building to stream and broadcast its work.”
“Outreach And Access” Will Be Conditions For Funding UK Arts Orgs If Labour Wins May Election
Harriet Harman, Labour’s shadow culture minister: “The money that goes into an arts organisation is taxpayers’ money. Outreach and access are not options, they must be part and parcel. … Taxpayers will not be happy to finance something if they think it’s not anything to do with them, especially in hard times.”
Copyright And Copywrong: A New Fair Use Guide Helps You Find The Line Between Them
“Hoping to remedy pervasive and often crippling uncertainty among artists and art professionals over how and when to invoke fair use when dealing with copyrighted materials, the College Art Association (CAA) has released a Code of Best Practices in Fair Use … [which] offers very clear and concise guidelines for artists, scholars, instructors, curators, and editors whose work may involve using others’ artworks.”
Why So Many People Are Freaking Out About The Release Of Harper Lee’s Unpublished Novel
“There are cultural currents afoot, beyond the book’s iconic power as a social document, that give the absurd situation a rational aspect and keep it going. One is the fear of the helplessness of old age. The spectacle of an author – and a beloved American author at that, one who has abided in our deepest feelings since many of us read her in childhood – being taken advantage of in old age is chilling at a time when so many people are living long lives.”
Idiosyncracies And Obsessions And Perfection: The Musicians Of The L.A. Phil
“[Bass clarinetist David] Howard, 59, practices yoga to strengthen his lungs. Timpanist Joseph Pereira stretches damp calfskins across drums and fashions mallets out of wine corks and felt. Thomas Hooten … runs trumpet scales late into the night. And Christopher Hanulik, who calls his 25-pound bass ‘the beast,’ guards against strained ligaments and tendinitis: ‘I’ve got to be nimble, my muscles quick.'”
Why Jon Stewart Is Leaving “The Daily Show”
“Yesterday’s announcement … is jolting, but it shouldn’t be surprising. Last fall, on the eve of his writing-directing feature-film debut, Stewart openly wrestled with how much longer he wanted to keep doing the TV show that made him famous. It wasn’t hard to see which way he was leaning.”
How The Rise Of Jon Stewart Hastened The Demise Of Brian Williams
“In recent days, some commenters have dismissed Williams’s comic moonlighting as the work of a guy who couldn’t stand not to have a camera trained on him, or of a newsman who actually just wanted to be an entertainer. A more charitable view would be that he was an anchor trying to remain relevant in a news environment that, thanks in part to Stewart, was turning him into a dinosaur in a bespoke suit.”
The House That Jon Stewart Built: Comedic Journalism Will Not Disappear
“The idea that what Jon Stewart and his team did was journalism always rankled some journalists, but that’s exactly what it was. At its most fundamental level, the purpose of journalism in a democracy is to build a more informed citizenry. For many Americans, especially younger ones, Stewart fulfilled that task. And it seems to be a duty his successors are eager to take up.”
Almost All Of Us Occasionally Do What Brian Williams Did
Alva Noë: “A lot of folks are trying to make sense of what would drive Brian Williams, a reporter, the face of NBC news, to make up easily fact-checkable stories about his experiences as a reporter … Ego? Self-aggrandizement? Trying to make himself seem better, braver, tougher, more experienced than he really is? I have a slightly different hypothesis: …”