Performance anxiety. Alva Noë explains.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Django Unchained Violence Toned Down For Chinese Release
“Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained looks set to be released in China with minor retouches to tone down the colour and impact of the film’s ubiquitous use of blood and gore, it has been revealed.”
MoMA To Demolish Former American Folk Arts Museum
“In its place the adjacent Museum of Modern Art, which bought the building in 2011, will put up an expansion, which will connect to a new tower with floors for the Modern on the other side of the former museum.” The Tod Williams Billie Tsien-designed structure opened only in 2001.
Paolo Soleri, 93, Utopian Architect
“A onetime apprentice at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West compound, … [Soleri] created a visionary prototype for a new kind of ecologically sensitive city in the remote Arizona desert four decades ago, only to watch the suburban sprawl he detested begin to creep near it in recent years.”
Strike At Louvre Over Pickpocket Gangs
“Paris’s Louvre museum closed on Wednesday due to a walkout by some staff over a rise in aggressive pickpockets including children sometimes working in gangs of up to 30, staff and management said.”
Arts and Humanities Endowments Would Edge Up Under Obama’s Budget
“Mr. Obama’s budget proposal, released on Wednesday, would raise each endowment’s budgets by roughly $200,000, to $154.5-million … Under the federal spending cuts that took effect on March 1, known as the sequester, both endowments took budget reductions of $7-million, though Mr. Obama’s proposal does not reflect those cuts.”
Disney Studios Lays Off 150 Staffers
“Individuals working in home entertainment, production, distribution and marketing, as well as the company’s music and theater business in New York City are feeling the brunt of the impact, with only a small number of employees leaving the animation division.”
Waterstone’s Founder Launches E-Book Subscription Service
Tim Waterstone “is also about to return to bookselling as non-executive chairman of a new venture called Read Petite. … An online outlet for short-form ebooks (fiction and non-fiction), its users will pay a monthly subscription – ‘a few pounds’ – and have unlimited access to texts of around 9,000 words or under.”
How Nicholas Hytner Fixed The National Theatre
“He took over in 2003 when there was a sense that the National was drifting comfortably along without any sustaining vision. One of Hytner’s great achievements – along with that of his executive director, Nick Starr, who will also be leaving in 2014 – is that he has restored to the theatre a strong sense of purpose.”
Campaign Demands That Denise Scott Brown Get Retroactive Prizker Prize
“Denise Scott Brown worked alongside her husband, Robert Venturi, who was awarded the 1991 Pritzker Architecture Prize alone for his body of work. But it is widely acknowledged that they did the work together.”