“‘The key, now that they’ve spent all this money, is to ensure momentum,’ she said. ‘This should be an escape.'”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Orlando’s New Performing Arts Center Has Some Ideas About How To Make Money
“Dr. Phillips Center officials hope that guests will arrive early and stay after the show to enjoy a drink in one of the many bars. How many bars? 13 — compared with just four in the Bob Carr Theater, Orlando’s previous performing-arts center.”
Dancers Who Long Ago Left Cuba Return For International Ballet Festival
“Coming back, seeing my family again it was an indescribable feeling. It’s been such a long time. I started … I broke into tears ’cause it was so much emotion.”
Those Who Freak Out About Spoilers Are Clueless About The Art Of Criticism
“The rise of spoiler-free criticism seems like a move away from criticism as art — and a move toward criticism as an arm of fandom marketing. It’s fine to not want spoilers in your criticism. But there is something distasteful about the assumption that providing spoilers is some sort of lapse in ethics or etiquette.”
Why We Create Better In The Middle Of The Night (Yes, Really)
“Blissfully zonked out by prolactin, our night brains allow ideas to emerge and intertwine as they might in a dream.”
Wait, Is ‘Jane Eyre’ A Genre Novel? (And If So, What The Heck *Is* Genre?)
“Why not just let books be books? The thing is that genre doesn’t have to be vexing. It can be illuminating. It can be useful for writers and readers to think in terms of groups and traditions. And a good genre system — a system that really fits reality — can help us see the traditions in which we’re already, unconsciously, immersed.”
Figuring Out Rome’s Graffiti, One Century At A Time
“These graffiti are indices, minute traces testifying that our relationship with masterpieces, between the 15th and 19th centuries, was very different from what it is today.”
Do You Know How To Read Poetry?
“6. If you don’t know a word, look it up or die.”
We End Up With The Wrong Person Because We’re Super Bad At Rejecting People
“People generally don’t like being mean to each other — it’s what psychologists call ‘other-regarding preferences.’ But those preferences can have negative consequences.”
The Poet And Critic Who Never Retired, Just Wrote On, Facing Death
Clive James “knows what is coming, and he still seems in a hurry to write a little more, burnish a little more and hope to be remembered.”