“This is not just a Cape Cod for the mind, a time to relax before wading back into the sifting and processing. Daydreaming, it turns out, is part and parcel of how the mind works, of how it locates and makes sense of the data we’ve already accreted and the links between them.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Student Actors In Ramallah Use Theatre To Tell Their Stories As Palestinians
“Festival participants included Palestinian students from the West Bank, a group of 12th-graders from Tromsø, Norway, actors from the UK, and trainers from Germany, Egypt and Romania who gave workshops in dance, drama, comedy and performance art. The final group performance included a movement piece reflecting the dynamics of street protest, a sketch about Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, Commedia dell’Arte scenes and monologues about self-image and harassment.”
Emmy Sponsors Desperately Try To Recreate Success Of Ellen’s Oscars ‘Group Selfie’
“So far, nearly major social media brand has plans to capitalize on Monday’s awards ceremony, waiting for a star-studded Emmy moment to go viral.”
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Sir Richard Attenborough, Actor, Director, Giant Of British Cinema, Dies At 90
“Richard was an academic failure who was happiest when performing in plays.” You may know him from his starring roles in “The Great Escape” and “Jurassic Park” or from his directing of “Gandhi” or “A Bridge Too Far” – or maybe even as Chancellor of the University of Sussex.
The Thousand Tiny Histories Of The United States
“They are ordinary objects from the not-too-distant past. They are the stuff of basements, like what you might find at a yard sale, or landfill. Yet, put under glass and labeled, and the things take on a magical air. The more mundane the things are, the more you wonder why they have been saved at all, the more magic they seem to have.”
The Art Thief Who’s Turned Into An Online Art World Sensation
Turbo Paul: “When it comes to negotiating the recovery of stolen art, the bad guys want to deal and tell the truth, the so-called good guys lie and prevaricate.”
When Memoirs Turn Out To Be Fiction, Why Can’t We Just Appreciate The Writing?
“To take anybody in, they must be well written and compelling to read. In every case I came across, the text was interesting in itself, even more so when it was known to be fake.”
Pop Music As A Tool For Making You Brush Your Teeth – And Ending Ebola?
“In 1949, the U.S. Public Health and Services commissioned songs from Woody Guthrie as part of its anti-venereal disease campaign. Guthrie’s ‘V.D. City’ warned people of ‘cold lower dungeons where the victims of syph roll and cry.'”
You Have No Excuse: More (And More And More) Ballet On The Internet
“The quantity of ballet performance history currently available to us on YouTube alone is staggering. No ballet illustrates this better than ‘Giselle.'”