“Life sucks up there. For you, for me, for trees, and just about everything else except peregrine falcons. It’s hot, cold, windy, the rain lashes at you, and the snow and sleet pelt you at high velocity. Life for city trees is hard enough on the ground.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Award-Winning Curator Who Never Finished His Bachelor’s Degree
“Walker thinks the way a lot of artists think — not in straight lines, but from multiple angles at once. ‘In the middle of whatever,’ says Shteynshleyger, ‘he’ll start talking about ancient history, or the Stone Age, or God knows what.’ Walker’s thought process, she says, takes ‘meandering paths. It’s not A to B; it’s more like A to F, then to B.'”
Manet Didn’t Just Invent Modern Painting
He also – along with his model and muse, Victorine Meurent – invented the modern spectator.
Which Authors Write About Women More Than Men?
Very, very few authors do that. And they’re all women. At least according to a Big Data textual examination of a whole lot of books.
This Ballet Was So Hot, The Curtain Caught Fire
“A curtain caught fire Saturday two hours before a ballet performance at Bass Hall downtown, causing a last-minute cancellation of Texas Ballet Theater’s Lambarena and Voluntaries.”
Hansel And Gretel And A Bunch Of Marijuana
Why so many fairy tale movies (for adults) now? And what would Bruno Bettelheim think?
Joseph Frank, 94, Biographer Of Dostoyeksky
“‘It’s now regarded as the best biography of Dostoevsky in any language, including Russian, which is really saying something,’ Gary Saul Morson, a Dostoevsky scholar and professor of Slavic languages and literature at Northwestern University, said in a telephone interview, referring to the five-volume work. ‘That’s more or less universal. And this is my opinion, I don’t know if others will agree, but it’s the best biography of any writer I’ve ever read.'”
This Visual Effects Company Won an Oscar, But It’s Going Bankrupt – Why? [AUDIO]
“When Rhythm and Hues Supervisor Bill Westenhofer accepted the Oscar for his company’s visual effects work on Life of Pi, he was played off the stage before he could tell audiences the company is bankrupt, and the industry is suffering.”
Wildly Successful Community Theatre Asks For Public Money. Cue The Freakout.
“Hale’s done what few other theater companies can do. They get people into the theater who perhaps have never been to a theater before. That said, if their operating budget has grown by $900,000 in one year alone, and in tough economic times, why do they need legislative support?”
Will We All Be Wearing Stretchable Batteries Soon?
“Typically, circuits inside of batteries are rigid, but creating bridges using metal wiring to connect the elements gives the circuits the ability to stretch and flex along with any device.”