“Because everything has become so evident, you’ve stopped seeing anything. Exile gives you a chance to break free. All that heavy luggage of old ‘truths,’ which seemed so only because they were so familiar, is to be left behind. Exiles always travel light.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Winners’ List From The First Round Of The Emmys
“HBO led the network tally with 15 total wins, followed by NBC with 10, PBS with eight, and Fox and Netflix tied with seven.”
What Kind Of Art We Should See After Ferguson
“The piece is a stunning reflection of a society that is grappling with the notion of African American men as threats; that there might be places where they should and shouldn’t be.”
Do People Who Inspire Hit Movies Deserve More Than $2000 And A Lifetime Gag Order?
“She has been watching Tom Hedley promote his musical in the Canadian press. More than once she has heard him say that the women on whom Flashdance was based were never able to cash in on their dreams. ‘Are you kidding me?’ she says. ‘You took my dreams.'”
London’s National Gallery (FINALLY) Allows Photography – Yes, Including Selfies With Self-Portraits
“What’s this going to do to art? What’s it going to do to a generation? … Once you stick your big face in the foreground, the experience is different again, less like art and more like going to the seaside and putting your head above the body of a wrestler in a swimming costume.”
In ‘La Trashiata,’ A Fake Celebrity Real Opera [VIDEO]
“The photographer has now turned her hand to Opera, creating La Trashiata, which features dopplegangers of Charles Saatchi and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, among others.”
George Orwell’s Estate Is Not Happy With Amazon. Not Happy At All.
“I’m both appalled and wryly amused that Amazon’s tactics should come straight out of Orwell’s own nightmare dystopia, 1984.”
What’s ‘American’ About Ballet?
“The story of a frontier outlaw and his string of murders was far removed from the lofty and exotic subjects of European ballet.”
Why Is The Internet Blue?
Facebook inventor Mark Zuckerberg’s “version of the internet is profoundly blue, bluer than any internet before, for a reason he didn’t realize was personal until long after the decision was made.”
Let’s Just Be Blunt About Theatre’s Massive Class Divide
“This play, this theatre, this audience will never make it into a national study about ‘diversity in theatre.’ Their productions, audience, playwrights, existence are not considered important enough to include because of the size of their budget. Their work, like the work of indie theatres all over the country, is invisible. But those audiences are having an intense, emotional, moving, unique, life-changing theatre experience. It’s not happening in New York, and it’s not happening in a 20 million dollar a year LORT, but it IS happening.”