“Hardly anyone tells these stories anymore. And very few are interested to hear them. In fact, we have to dig through our memory, because it’s been so long since we narrated them.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Bebo Valdés, 94, Giant of Cuban Music
“This is my profession, and it is my hobby, and I live in love with what I do,” the pianist and composer said in 2006. “Even if I wasn’t successful, I did it because I liked it, and I’ll keep doing it until I die.”
West End Actors Aren’t Happy About Adding Forced Sunday Shows
“Actors already work antisocial hours in regards to leading a normal family life, and to eat into this time any more is too much of a sacrifice.”
The Brontë Sisters Were ‘Savage and Sensual’ And Should Top Best-seller Lists
The sisters probably weren’t as innocent or unworldly as Charlotte claimed after the deaths of Emily and Anne – and their books are “shocking, erotic, profoundly moving.”
That Painting Isn’t By Rembrandt’s Pupil – It’s By The Master Himself
“The painting, which is dated to 1635, shows Rembrandt at the age of 29, wearing a black velvet cap with ostrich feathers and a decorated velvet cape.”
Teach The Children Fairy Tales And The Bible, Not Just TV And The Internet
So says famous atheist Philip Pullman, author of the children’s His Dark Materials series.
And There Goes The San Francisco Symphony’s East Coast Tour
The tour for next week and weekend have been canceled, but “Brent Assink, the orchestra’s executive director, said on Sunday that management was ‘ready to resume bargaining’ with the players, though ‘collectively, we need a few hours of sleep.'”
Toyo Ito: The Pritzker Winner Finds Inspiration In Nature
“Ito’s architecture creates fluidity between nature and humanity. When people enter his completely solar-powered stadium in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, for example, he wants them to be able to feel the wind and feel the air. Too often, he believes, urban environments feel intended to keep us apart. He wants to redesign them to bring us together.”
We Built This Civilization On … Hops?
“We needed something that, on occasion, would let us break free from our biological herd imperative — or at least let us suppress our angst when we did. We needed beer.”
What Does The End of Google Reader Really Mean? War.
“Cory Doctorow has predicted a war over general purpose computing. As computers become part of the world of things, who controls the computers is a significant issue. Regulations, international trade agreements, and software that restrict users’ choices create more problems than they solve, provide bad actors, corporations, and the state opportunities for surveillance and censorship, and generally restrict freedom.”