“Taxi is Panahi’s third film since he was banned from making films by the Iranian authorities and forbidden from travelling in 2010. It was filmed covertly as the director drove a taxi around Tehran.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Australian Teenager Wins The Prix de Lausanne
“‘It’s weird to think at 16 I will be on the other side of the world, living by myself and cooking and cleaning and washing up,’ says Lee. ‘It’s scary, but it’s what I’ve been training for.'”
The First Writer From North Africa To Be Elected To The Academie Française Has Died
“In an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro in 2005, [Assia] Djebar reflected on her status as a female author in the Arab world. ‘I am not a symbol,’ she said. ‘My only activity consists of writing.'”
Get Ready For Crowded Skies As Commercial Drones Become Legal
The FAA “said it believes that drones can save lives, boost the economy, and be integrated safely into the national airspace.”
The Frank Lloyd Wright House That Has Survived Earthquakes And Is Now Reopened To The Public
Hollyhock House’s curator: “Within the context of Wright’s career, it’s the first house of his second period — post Prairie-style period. It’s also his first house in Los Angeles. That means it’s the first time he gets to experiment with Japanese-inspired ideas of dissolving the walls between the exterior and the interior. Here, he’s got a climate he can do that in.”
How Do You Get Untold American Stories Out To The Masses? Graphic Novels, Of Course
“Some man or woman in Louisiana deciding that, ‘The only way I’m going to be able to get up in the morning and go to do what I need to do, is to run. And to run thousands of mile barefooted through snow and ice with only a river and stars and spirituals to guide me’ — that’s an American idea.”
Prolific British Composer And Pianist John McCabe Has Died
“A gifted artist, he had composed 13 symphonies by the age of 11, and his recordings of Joseph Haydn’s piano sonatas are considered definitive. His own compositions included orchestral and chamber music, and he was director of the London College of Music between 1983 and 1990.”
Can Second Stage Hold On To Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theatre?
“The Hayes is one of only 40 Broadway theaters, which rarely come up for sale, and it is widely regarded as a beautiful playhouse in a prime location.”
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Philip Levine, Former U.S. Poet Laureate And Pulitzer Prize Winner, Dies At 87
“In spare, realistic free verse, Mr. Levine explored the subjects that had animated his work for decades: his gritty Detroit childhood; the soul-numbing factory jobs he held as a youth; Spain, where he lived for some time as an adult; and the Spanish anarchists of the 1930s, a personal passion since he was a boy.”