“It’s like Whac-a-Mole. Certain moments make sense, then they don’t, then others do, then they don’t anymore. All of a sudden you’ve lost what you found – you thought you knew what that moment in a scene was about, and then you don’t anymore. And then you do.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Philadelphia OKs Ellsworth Kelly Sculpture For New Barnes Foundation
“After a few brief words of praise, the city Art Commission gave its unanimous blessing Wednesday to a soaring Ellsworth Kelly sculpture proposed by the Barnes Foundation for its new site on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.”
Sergei Polunin’s Problem With Ballet? The Discipline
“The stage, that’s the only time I enjoy really. I don’t enjoy my working, killing myself during the day for eight hours. … You perform twice in a whole month but for the whole month you rehearse. Which is the really boring part. I hate that part. … I don’t believe you have to do classes to be good. … What I hate the most is waking up in the morning.”
Osvaldo Golijov Defends His Borrowing Of Music
On the charges that he lifted material a colleague wrote for a film score: “There was this beautiful material. It didn’t work for the movie, but it worked for music. We decided both: ‘Let’s grab it. Each one can do what he wants.’ Joint ideas, joint material, same room.”
Osama Raid Film Shoot In India Disrupted By Radicals – Hindu Radicals
“Right-wing Hindu activists on Friday disrupted shooting for Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow’s movie on the hunt for Osama bin Laden, protesting at the use of Indian locations to portray Pakistan.”
Other Books Of Revelation (And Why Only John’s Made It Into The Bible)
John of Patmos’s fevered prophecy “wasn’t unique. At the time, countless others – Jews, pagans and Christians – produced a flood of ‘books of revelation,’ claiming to reveal divine secrets. Some have been known for centuries; about 20 others were found in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945. So what do the other revelations tell us, and how did John’s come to trump the others?”
Brooklyn Public Library Gets A Print-On-Demand Machine
“In a borough of writers and immigrants,” the Espresso Book Machine, which can print and bind a volume in four to eight minutes, “offers what the library’s holdings can’t: titles in any language and a chance to publish your own.”
Struggling Stockton, Calif. Finds Solace In New Orchestral Score
The city, whose government is nearing bankruptcy, has so many problems that it topped last year’s Forbes list of America’s most miserable cities. The Stockton Symphony’s commission of a new piece by composer Avner Dorman – and the local workshops and tryouts Dorman held as part of the process – are starting to break down some barriers between the beleaguered residents.
Jonathan Miller (Despite What He Promised) Returns To Spoken Theatre
“Theatre and opera director Sir Jonathan Miller is to stage his first play in the UK for five years. … Sir Jonathan’s last dramatic production was Hamlet at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol in 2008. After Hamlet, he predicted that he would ‘never’ return to the theatre.”
The Problem With Snark In Dance Criticism
Wendy Perron: “I have no problem with a critic getting sarcastic once in a while. … What I object to is excessive snark, either in frequency or intensity. … I do think that the snark habit is destructive – not only to dancers’ psyches but also to ticket sales, bookings, and reputations.”