“Culture secretary Sajid Javid also announced £300,000 for a Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) tour of China.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
TV Is Increasingly Being Made For Old(er) People. Rejoice!
“Television is getting better, especially cable, and using a Sherlockian level of analysis, I’d conclude TV is better because it isn’t always catering to the young, many of whom are known flibbertigibbets.”
Has The Toronto Film Festival Lost Its Way?
“Maybe it’s time for a break. TIFF has gotten too unwieldy, too Hollywood, too focused on the dozens of film junkets attaching themselves, barnacle-like, to the festival itself.”
No, Musicians, College Will *Not* Kill Your Creativity
“Over the years, many of my friends and colleagues across the U.S. who are freelance musicians and specialize in contemporary music have told me that they dislike schools of any sort and they want nothing to do with them.”
A Conductor, Prepping To Lead The Boston Symphony
“This is not a situation that rewards arrogance. A certain humility, even a touch of subservience, is in order, a lesson that Mr. Nelsons has evidently taken to heart and that has served him well.”
Treasure Troves Of Black History In The U.S. Often Lie Hidden, In People’s Homes
“The relics and heirlooms of African-American families, the Smithsonian says, can help tell the story of America — and should be preserved. To that end, the museum is educating people about how to take care of their own history, making ordinary people collectors of the nation’s heritage.”
Will Americans Ever Grow Up?
“It isn’t only that patriarchy in the strict, old-school Don Draper sense has fallen apart. It’s that it may never really have existed in the first place, at least in the way its avatars imagined. Which raises the question: Should we mourn the departed or dance on its grave?”
Can A Community Have A ‘Soul’?
Yes, and that can be created: “A community’s ‘soul’ is not just some ineffable or magical quality. Urban planning and local laws actually affect it.”
The Magic Building Where Creative Writing Majors Make Money After College …
Doesn’t exist. “When is the right time to tell people about their job prospects? In graduate school? Before they even apply to graduate school? Or sooner than that even—in their first creative writing class? Never? Let them Google it because it’s just too depressing otherwise?”
An 88-Year-Old Ballerina Recreates A WWII Ballet [VIDEO]
Dame Gillian Lynne recreates a ballet about the working class of Glasgow that was performed for soldiers near the battlefields of Germany during the war.