Two weeks ago the company announced that, due to a sharp drop in support there in recent years, it was no longer viable to travel from Miami to perform at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Now an anonymous donor’s matching grant may make the difference.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Wallace Shawn Says He’s A “D-List Actor Who Does Animal Voices For A Living”
“Being an actor is a strange thing that came up in my life, and I’ve had great good luck with it … I take myself much more seriously as a writer, but I understand why people might not like my writing. I mean I really understand why it’s not as popular as the writing of some other people. … I actually don’t understand why I haven’t been taken more seriously as an actor, in the sense of being given better parts.”
Trying To Give Everyone A Good View Has Made Theaters More Exclusive, Not Less
Prewar theaters “had a greater capacity at the lower price levels than at the higher, a contrast to today, where there are very few cheap seats and they are all at the very back or the very front. … Seat prices have been levelled up rather than down on the grounds that all enjoy an uninterrupted view of the actor.”
Making A Rainbow Out Of One Of Brooklyn’s Ugliest Pieces Of Infrastructure
“Most days the underside of the Smith-9th Street subway bridge over the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn is a tangle of ungainly gray beams, but this week it has been aglow in bold colors every night.”
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So How Are The Acoustics At Paris’s New Concert Hall?
Tom Service: “If the other 2,399 seats are as good as the one I was sitting in, I think that the Philharmonie could be one of the most dynamic and exciting places to hear orchestral music in the world – as well as the most fun simply to sit in, thanks to the combination of intimacy and imagination of the interior.”
Magical Thinking: What Prestidigitation Can Tell Us About Cognition
“Which is a better magic trick: turning a dove into a glass of milk, or a glass of milk into a dove? Turning a rose into a vase, or a vase into a rose? For most people, … in each case, they find the transformation from a nonliving object to a living thing more interesting – but why? Is it just more exciting to see a living thing appear than to have it vanish? Or is there something deeper at work?”
Mark Zuckerberg’s New Book Club: He’s No Oprah (Yet)
“See, when Zuckerberg actually hosted the first book club ‘meeting’ – a Facebook Q&A yesterday with the book’s author, Moises Naím – he faced a problem familiar to far more plebeian bookclubs: Hardly anybody showed up. (And of those who did, few had actually read the book.)”
Milton Hebald, 97, Little-Known But Ubiquitous Sculptor
“Most art lovers won’t recognize the name Milton Hebald. But it’s safe to assume that tens of millions of people have seen his work: sculptures, installed in prominent public places in Los Angeles and New York City, that include a monumental display of the 12 signs of the Zodiac that stood for decades at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport.”
Elaine Summers, Co-Founder Of Judson Dance Theater, Dead At 89
“Throughout her work, Ms. Summers was fascinated by the interplay of form and movement, something, she realized, that dance and film could exploit both singly and in combination. Through film, she was able not only to capture the motion of a dance itself, but also to add contrapuntal movement through camera work and cutting.”