“The greenhouse-style transparent buildings are surrounded by running tracks, peaceful meadows, and a flowing creek.” (No, that sentence was not a parody.)
Author: ArtsJournal2
Leonard Nimoy, 83, Who Was Star Trek’s Spock And So, So Much More
“His artistic pursuits — poetry, photography and music in addition to acting — ranged far beyond the United Federation of Planets, but it was as Mr. Spock that Mr. Nimoy became a folk hero, bringing to life one of the most indelible characters of the last half century: a cerebral, unflappable, pointy-eared Vulcan with a signature salute and blessing: ‘Live long and prosper’ (from the Vulcan ‘Dif-tor heh smusma’).”
Fifty Years Ago, Britain’s Only White Paper On The Arts Suggested Daily Engagement – Did It Work?
“The good news is that the arts are a significant contributor to the economy; the bad is that culture and creativity are being erased from the classroom, and that audiences for the arts are substantially white, middle class, affluent and well educated. Worryingly, there is a downward trend in participation.”
Pablo Neruda’s Remains To Be Reburied In Chile After Four Investigations Into His Suspicious Death
“For nearly two years, Neruda’s remains have been lying in forensic laboratories in three countries – and from early this year in a fourth – in an attempt to determine whether his death may have been accelerated by poisoning.”
The Young Composer Forging Her Own Path In The ‘Archaic’ Worlds Of Classical Music And Opera
Gabrielle Herbst: “People go to the opera to step out of their ordinary lives, and I was interested in the symbols and archetypes that opera’s stories have, and how people come to terms with their own lives in terms of these very intense emotions and gestures.”
Can Pandora Soothe The Extremely Ruffled Feelings Of The Music World?
“To repair its relationships in the music world, Pandora has created a division to work with labels and artist managers, opened its vast databanks, and begun experimenting with artist promotions.”
The Woman Who Had A Huge Influence On Sculptor Anthony Caro, But Also Made Her Own Art
Sheila Girling, who has died at 90, met Caro at art school. “Girling’s pictures often dazzle with their intense hues, and it was she who on occasion chose the colours in Caro’s sculptures, from his steel and aluminium compositions of the 1960s to more recent pieces in Perspex.”
The NSA Might Be Displeased With Hollywood After The ‘Citizenfour’ Win
The Academy voters “implicitly validated the project of exposing how government stores and monitors our private communications as a worthy enterprise rather than a discreditable one. In this way, civil society has just strengthened a core democratic norm.”
In Los Angeles, Small Theatres Are Quietly And Not So Quietly Freaking Out About Equity’s Minimum Wage Proposal
“By the time the meeting broke up it looked as if a civil war were at hand and that, in an extreme rarity for the U.S. labor movement, a substantial force within a union was mobilizing against a pay hike.”
These Are The Actors Who Make Background Conversation In Every Movie And TV Show
“In the film Selma, as marchers were beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965, audiences saw a crowd of extras mouthing dialogue and shouts — but they were hearing loopers, who recorded the shouts and screams in postproduction.”