“The debate illustrates how Olympic stadiums engender more passion than almost any other buildings, and how the massive, expensive public projects become potent symbols of architectural prowess and economic pride — structures in which countries invest nothing less than their national identities.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Medical Reality TV Shows Are Filming People’s Deaths Without Their Families’ Consent
“Patients caught up in emergencies are especially vulnerable, posing special issues for reality shows. They may not be conscious or be able to speak for themselves; they may be quite literally exposed, as caregivers work to help them.”
The Oscars Want Small Intimate Movies … That Make A Lot Of Money
“‘The movie that’s on fire right now is Selma,’ Karger said. ‘A $900,000 opening on only 19 screens is huge.'”
When You Write A Book Of Personal Essays And Everyone Loves It, What’s Left To Say?
“We’re fundamentally attached to the redemption narrative: I was lost but now I’m found, I sinned but now I’m saved, I made lemonade from lemons, and so on. But the question I ask in different ways throughout the book is what happens when or if you don’t come out of a tough situation a better or changed person? What if you’re just the same person? And why is that not actually the best outcome?”
Music Downloads Plummet As Streaming And Vinyl Surge
Vinyl sales of 9.2 million might be up 52 percent from 2013, but that can’t offset a huge drop in album and individual song download sales.
Libraries Need To Innovate With A Lot More Than Coffee (Though Coffee’s A Good Start)
“Despite massive cuts to budgets and opening hours over the past few years, a third of the population uses libraries (50% in poorer areas). A fifth of people still don’t have the internet at home and more still don’t know how to use it.”
Singing The ‘Winterreise’ With Bob Dylan And Billie Holiday In Mind
Classical song and popular song should not be so far apart: they share a lot in their subject matter and in their aesthetic of intimacy. Mostly, however, the influence has to be a subliminal one, for only then can it avoid self-consciousness or a certain archness.
Do People Who Love Tolkien Have A Deep-Seated Hatred For Democracy?
“Moorcock’s literary agitation shook the fantasy and science-fiction establishment and made it possible for writers to step outside the long shadow of Tolkien and other fantasy devices.”
Transforming A Thomas Pynchon Book For The Silver Screen
“It’s not a question of homage but of throwing absolutely everything into the mix for processing, every stray particle of a commonly shared culture—every joke good or bad that you ever heard, every commercial you couldn’t escape from, every sex fantasy or tabloid crime story that inhabited your dreams, every tag line dredged up from ancient comic strips or pulp stories.”
New Book Collection Brings A Dizzying Array Of Indian Classical Literature To The Masses
“While the canon of surviving Greek and Roman classics is fairly small, the literature of India’s multiple classical languages includes thousands upon thousands of texts, many of which, as the writer William Dalrymple recently noted, exist only in manuscripts that are decaying before they can be translated or even cataloged.”