“Mr. Mrozek, who began his career as a journalist and cartoonist, was known for mordant allegorical plays whose absurdism lampooned the political and social climate of the postwar Eastern bloc nations. Critics often mentioned his work in the same breath as that of the Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Why Jude Kelly Is Adamant About Providing Arts For Young People
As a 15-year-old in Liverpool, the woman who is now the artistic director of the Southbank Centre had fallen in with the proverbial bad crowd and was spiraling downhill – until a timely word from her headmaster led her to start a drama club. She’s never forgotten the difference it made.
Shanghai Opens Public Library In Subway System
“Shanghai’s Metro Line 2 is turning a new page with a library taking literally an online approach. Passengers will be able to select a book at one station, and return it to any of the other stations with customized bookshelves.”
How Do French Newspapers Handle The August Lull? Creatively
That’s as in creative writing. “Articles on offer this summer starred the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire and that most golden of monarchs, Louis XIV, as well as a series of ‘interviews’ with long-dead composers, and ventures into somewhat esoteric historical fiction like ‘what if the oil embargo of 1973 had gone on longer?'”
Could The Curse Finally Be Lifting From Donald Margulies’s Holocaust Play?
Despite praise from everyone from literary managers to the New York Times and Village Voice, Margulies’s The Model Apartment suffered from years of bad luck, bad timing, and (occasionally) bad faith. Maybe it’s because, as the playwright puts it, “This isn’t your bubbe‘s Holocaust play.”
France Says It Wants To Return Art Looted In WWII, But –
“No additional funds have been earmarked for research, and no additional staff members have been hired or dedicated to this project … There is one employee assigned to research unclaimed art in French museums – a laborious process.”
French Art Business Figures Warn Against VAT Increase
“High-profile trade figures in the French art world have warned the government that a proposed rise in VAT affecting works of art imported into France from outside the European Union will seriously undermine the country’s standing in the global art market.”
Enough Already With The “Theory Of Everything”
Theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser explains why “we have to do away with this idea for once and for all.” First of all, it isn’t really about “everything”; more importantly, the very idea is, in a sense, antithetical to the ethos of science.
Haters Really Are Gonna Hate, Scientists Find
“A new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology corroborates the hip-hop and Internet truism that you just can’t win with some people. (No word yet on whether playas gonna play or ballers gonna ball, but we’ll probably find out soon. Researchers gonna research.)”
Benjamin Millepied Is Being Subversive About Ballet’s Gender Roles
“[There] seems to be a clear undercurrent of Millepied’s artistic thinking: the need to modernize what ballet represents, as well as the artistic elements that are incorporated into them. There are three big ideas that come across in Millepied’s comments about race and gender in ballet.”