“The influence of Judson on current dance artists is as inspirational as it is oppressive. What is there left to rebel against? It’s often the kid with the cool parents who has the hardest time breaking free.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Buskers For Bach On The G Train
“For an hour, musicians tag-teamed from stop to stop in the first car of the train in a continuously repeating performance of the Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1.
In G.”
Oh, English. Why So Damned Difficult?
“Why, for centuries, have people struggled to spell? Because English spelling is horribly hard. It is not just that we have ‘for’ and ‘four,’ ‘stake,’ ‘steak,’ and ‘mistake.’ We also have ‘peak,’ ‘peek,’ and ‘pique.’ ‘Horrid’ has a double consonant in the middle, ‘timid’ a single one. ‘Prefer’ has one ‘f,’ ‘proffer’ two.”
If The N-Word Doesn’t Bother You In Django Unchained, Jamie Foxx Will Be Surprised (And Displeased)
“We say that word in the movie, and people say, ‘Well, I had a problem with that word,'” Foxx says. “I want to shout, ‘You should have a problem with that word. You’re supposed to let it affect you. That’s why it’s in the movie.'”
So, What Do The Real Housewives Of Miami Think Of Art Basel?
“Marysol: It’s always been about art, which is its basis, but now it’s taken over the social calendar. It’s just this huge social experience and celebrities, every year there’s more and more. … It’s interesting how in the beginning we worked with big art galleries, and then it started transforming into a few art galleries and fashion brands bringing the art element in.”
Moving An Online Store Offline, And Making It Pretty
How to move your product (tastefully) from a nice web page to an in-the-flesh experience? Hire designers, of course.
Opera Star Who Survived The Nazis Still Going Strong At 95
“It was 1947 in post-war Vienna, and Hilde Zadek remembers taking a deep breath behind the curtain. A rookie on her first opera gig, she was about to sing the prestigious role of Aida for an audience full of particularly harsh critics — whistle-packing Nazis she says were determined to show ‘that Jew from Palestine’ she was not welcome at one of the world’s greatest opera houses.”
Canadian Special Effects Artist Can Go On Producing Torture Art, Court Says
“During the trial, Couture argued his gory works, roughly 1,000 images and two short videos that appeared on his website, Inner Depravity, should be considered art. The material in question depicts gruesome murders, torture, sexual abuse, assaults and necrophilia — all with young female victims.”
The CIA Director Jumps Into Zero Dark Thirty Discussions
Acting CIA Director Michael Morell: “Whether enhanced interrogation techniques were the only timely and effective way to obtain information from those detainees, as the film suggests, is a matter of debate that cannot and never will be definitively resolved.”
Of Course Wealthy French Movie Stars Should Flee The Tax Rates, Says Catherine Deneuve
Deneuve defends fellow actor Gerard Depardieu for his move to Belgium, where the wealth tax is 50 percent instead of next year’s French rate of 75 percent.