“The architect who shattered all architectural expectations for what a museum and even a building might be has been conspicuously overlooked.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
James Garner, Star Of Stage And Screen, Dead At 86
Garner, star of ‘Maverick’ and ‘The Rockford Files,’ “was a genuine star but as an actor something of a paradox: a lantern-jawed, brawny athlete whose physical appeal was both enhanced and undercut by a disarming wit.”
The Pristine Ruins Of Online Past Cities – And Lives
“I imagine all of the strings of text that have come before or after mine that similarly disappeared into the void. But what happens when those spaces stick around, as in a virtual world—when they can’t physically decay?”
Artists Can’t Get Any Respect – But That Can Change
“Think about how we all instinctively turned to artists to help interpret unthinkable events for us. It was our singers and musicians, our writers and poets that we, all of us everywhere, wanted to hear from. It was our artists that gave voice to our national agony and helped make the incomprehensible tolerable.”
Is The Crossword Puzzle Going Extinct?
“Fewer people than ever before are crosswording. And just because crosswords are slowly losing their crotchety clues doesn’t mean that solver demographics have changed.”
The Guy Who Keeps The Studio Audience Laughing (And Laughing, Even On Take 15)
“The only thing standing between the show keeping the audience on its side and outright mutiny is often the warm-up (and his reliable sidekick, the DJ), who aims to keep those long gaps between scenes light-hearted and funny, then drop the audience right back into the action when taping resumes.”
Getting British Theatres Large And Small To Mount The Funding Barricades, Together
“Although it sometimes feels hard to effect change in any sphere, particularly government thinking, theatre is not helpless. Far from it.”
Keeping Beaux Arts Museums In Shape Is Super Hard, And Here’s Why
“Every time a fluted column or pedimented doorway gets in the way of a future gallery, the same problem crops up: how to make a grand old building more rational and efficient without neutralizing its idiosyncrasies—how, in other words, to make it better without ruining it completely.”
There’s So Much Good Television Out There, Even The TV Academy Doesn’t Know How To Deal With It
“We need to be responsive to the way the industry is evolving and reflective of the kind of shows being produced … So much production is being done around town, and they don’t all fit into nicely, cleanly defined boxes.”
What Lorin Maazel Did For Washington, D.C.
“In the obituaries and tributes that will flood the media in the coming hours and days and weeks, Castleton will not play as large as the major international ensembles Maazel shaped and led … But for the Washington region, Castleton offered a closer and more personal look at Maazel’s life and work, and even family.”