“You did not have to be a world-class musician to walk in and run your hands over the products that carry the most famous name in the piano world. It was a showroom — a very ornate showroom.” And now its future is in doubt.
Author: ArtsJournal2
Let’s Make A Return To Old-Fashioned Filmmaking
“The things that set out to dazzle me merely fry my mind.”
Let’s Triple Playgoing In The U.S. By 2020
“Theatre is too valuable to be wasted on the few.”
What Dreams May Come (And How We Turn Them Into Art)
Oliver Sachs: “Artists and painters and even some scientific discoveries have come from not what we would describe as rational consciousness but some other dreamlike or hallucinatory state.”
Danny, Champion of The World Goes Gaelic
“It has been an interesting project, particularly when translating some of [Roald] Dahl’s unusual words into new Gaelic words. … We have also been able to keep in the sketches of the original books done by Quentin Blake, which will be great for the children.”
After Attacking British Government, Nicholas Hytner’s Star Rises Yet Higher
Hytner is the widely acclaimed director of the National Theatre. “Any further cuts would be a disaster, he argues. Not for the National Theatre (or the Royal Opera House, or the British Museum), whose privileged status and ability to raise private funds shelter them, but for the majority of other orchestras, galleries and theatres, especially those outside London.”
Is The Internet Going To Save The Novel?
“The internet is a permanent fixture in modern life, and that it influences the way we read, write and think is simply fact. So instead of lamenting how digital ubiquity is nibbling away at the novel’s purview, what if a novel were to pull a fast one and swallow the internet whole? What if, rather than putting novels online, we downloaded the internet into a novel?”
Three Cups of Tea Author David Relin, 49
“David Oliver Relin, a journalist and adventurer who achieved acclaim as co-author of the best seller Three Cups of Tea (2006) and then suffered emotionally and financially as basic facts in the book were called into question, died Nov. 15.” His family said that he took his own life.
Lois Bewley, 78, A Comedian Onstage, An Arts Omnivore Off
“Dark-haired and lithe, self-confident, opinionated, and witty — ‘Above all, Miss Bewley might be regarded as one of dance’s finest comediennes,’ Anna Kisselgoff wrote in The New York Times in 1976 — she became a soloist with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in the mid-1950s and subsequently toured Europe with the American Ballet Theater”
Prizewinner: A Book That Plays With Plot, Character, And Author
“The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation awarded its 2012 Fiction Prize to Helen Oyeyemi for “Mr. Fox,” a novel about a writer who can’t stop himself from killing off women in his fiction until he meets his muse, who challenges him to confront trite fairy-tale endings.”