“If all the recent experimentation and progress in video games — they’re in the permanent collection at MoMA now — turns out to be just a plaster on an ugly sore, then the medium’s long journey into the mainstream could be halted or even reversed.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Stop Waiting For Someone Else To Do It, And DIY Theatre
“DIY is making a show in a bar when theatres refuse to programme your work or starting your own artist-led space to provide opportunities for yourself, but also crucially for others.”
Silent Films Are Now Anything But Quiet
“Silent film has managed to outwit history. Not only is there a phoenix-like rebirth of interest in the medium, but the films themselves and the artifacts surrounding them are constantly coming to light in rich and unexpected ways.”
Rwanda Suspends BBC Broadcasts After Documentary About 1994 Genocide Airs
“The programme also included interviews with former aides of RPF leader President Paul Kagame, accusing him of plotting to shoot down the presidential plane – the act seen as triggering the slaughter.
Writers Shouldn’t Respond To Bad Reviews, But They Also Shouldn’t Have To ‘Engage’ With Readers
“We feel a social and professional pressure to respond to every tweet with our name on it, even if just to be nice, and it’s that very niceness that leads us down this road to bat-guano craziness.”
Paul McCarthy Hits Back At Parisian Vandals With Chocolate, Um, Trees
“Through a succession of dimly lit rooms, the tunnel takes you into the recesses of a sinister chocolate production line turned mad house. Over the rows of chocolate sex toys that fill endless metal shelves, exceptionally large chocolate gnomes are displayed partly lifted from their man-sized molds.”
Harvard Will Finally Get A Theatre (And Dance) Major. Will Princeton Ever Cave?
“We have so many students who are active in the arts and are trying to figure out how to make that a core part of their experience, and this does that.”
Suni Haru, Who Sacrificed Her Career To Help Other Asian American Actors In Theirs, Dead At 75
“To her Philippines-born parents, dismayed that she had participated in a public protest, Haru said, ‘How else can we let people know that here’s discrimination in the theater?’ she wrote in “Iron Lotus” her 2012 autobiography. ‘You’ll see, someday I’ll make a living acting.'”
Paul Krugman Is Deeply Over Amazon And Its Defenders
“The desirability of new technology, or even Amazon’s effective use of that technology, is not the issue. After all, John D. Rockefeller and his associates were pretty good at the oil business, too — but Standard Oil nonetheless had too much power, and public action to curb that power was essential. And the same is true of Amazon today.”
Learning Narrative From Your Pet Wolf
“Depending on the details I selected, the story could be comic or sad. My parents could be painted as reckless or heroic. I could accept one teller’s version over another. I could create my own. Fiction, through fabrication, finds the truth that real life tends to cover up.”