“We binge on TV to craft time and space, and to fashion an immersive near-world with special properties. We enter a world that is, for all its narrative complexity, a place of sudden continuity. We may have made the world ‘go away’ for psychological purposes, but here, for anthropological ones, we have built another in its place.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Will Theatre Go The Way Of The GOP?
“Is what we have merely a leadership problem? Do we–like the Republicans–simply need a few more nonwhite leaders who share our values and can perpetuate our current systems? Does anyone know if Marco Rubio enjoys new play development?”
Westminster Abbey Gets Some (Very) New Stained-Glass Windows
“Mr. O’Donoghue was determined from the start to incorporate striking colors and religious symbols–but noted the challenge in carrying this out tastefully in a room containing 95 statues of saints and oak seats carved with monsters.”
Penguin Group To Pay Millions In E-Book Settlement
That’s $75 million, to states and private plaintiffs, in the lawsuit over price fixing.
How To Tolerate Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Gatsby:’ Turn It Into A New ‘Rocky Horror’
“Every time Gatsby says, ‘Old sport,’ spritz the air with Old Spice cologne and yell, ‘Hello, ladies!'”
Will Consistently Listening To Music You Hate Really Make You Love It?
“The only thing I enjoyed about the piece this time was how much it ‘entertained’ my downstairs neighbor responsible for the second-hand smoke in my bedroom; he had banged on his ceiling during my streams in, say, collaborative response to the work’s anti-patterns.”
Can A Dancer Stay With Just One Company Anymore? Ask Ivan Vasiliev
“‘I would love to dance everything,’ he said, laughing. ‘I would love to make new work, too. I’m available. Can I leave my number? Choreographers, call me please.'”
Lee Melville, 74, Champion of L.A. Theatre
“‘They ask me how I can go to theater four or five times a week,’ Melville told LA Stage Times. ‘I just look at them and ask how they can watch television four or five nights a week. Everyone has their own church at which they worship. Mine happens to be theater.'”
A Major Critic Says We’ve Forgotten How To Read
“You have to learn the public criteria for what counts as excellence – you can’t just make up criteria, for fiction no less than for Scotch – and you have to practise those criteria in public, testing and adjusting them against new books and other judgments. We learn how to understand and appreciate literature through public practice.”
Museums Say It’s Time To Return Bones And Artifacts To Indigenous Peoples
“Collecting such remains in pursuit of scientific knowledge once went unchallenged, but now institutions face the quandary of how to display Egyptian mummies in a respectful fashion. What is the purpose of displaying shrunken heads or tattooed Maori skulls or bone flutes? And should curators return remains that have been transformed into works of folk art?”