“Foundations, corporations and civic sources have pitched in to aid a company known for developing fine actors and producing gold-standard versions of August Wilson plays.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Tories Want To Destroy The Arts – For Everyone Else
“There can be no doubt that, as Maria Miller insists, many Conservative ministers do cherish the arts in their own lives. They are not materialistic brutes so much as selective philistines, content for Newcastle, having pitted art against survival, to embark on its own version of the Dark Ages, while Downing Street’s connoisseurs blag £888 Wagner tickets.”
We Thrive On Chaos, As Long As We’re Antifragile
“What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats. The largest ‘fragilizer’ of society is a lack of skin in the game.”
The 28-Year-Old Behind The Smart, Literary, Popular ‘Brain Pickings’
“Her paternal grandmother was a rabid biblio and had a collection of encyclopedias, [Maria] Popova said, and she credits the act of randomly opening volumes and happening upon entries for her passion to discover old knowledge. ‘The Web has such a presentism bias,’ she said, with Facebook updates, tweets and blog entries always appearing with the latest first. By contrast, flipping through the encyclopedia was ‘an interesting model of learning about the world serendipitously and also guidedely.'”
The Mad Dash For Height Is Ruining London
“There is no nice way of putting this, but the skyline of London is being screwed.”
Holy Grail Producer Sues Monty Python Over Spamalot Royalties
“Mark Forstater, the film producer behind Monty Python and the Holy Grail has launched a High Court claim that he is the ‘seventh Python’ and entitled to royalties from the Broadway and West End stage musical spin-off, Spamalot.“
Hey British Public, You’re Frighteningly Good At Finding Old Things
“Archaeologists in England and Wales are struggling to cope with the number of artefacts discovered by members of the public. Nearly 100,000 finds were made last year and reported to authorities.”
Little Things, And Little Feelings, Make Up Our Days
“The zany, cute, and interesting won’t stir us to tears or action or a belief in the creator. … But these are judgments as rich for unpacking as the beautiful or the sublime–and, in our time and place, more important than ever.”
Without Her, There’d Be A Lot Less Middle Earth (But Who Is She?)
Fran Walsh co-writes all of Peter Jackson’s movies, produces them, and even directs scenes. “Walsh, 53, is also one of Hollywood’s biggest living mysteries. She rarely grants interviews and refuses to sit for a photograph. Forget walking a red carpet alongside Mr. Jackson. Ms. Walsh has not even allowed her face to be shown on camera when contributing DVD commentary.”
National Labor Relations Board Sends Jacksonville Symphony To Court
“There is enough evidence of unfair labor practices by the Jacksonville Symphony Association to take the musicians’ union’s complaint before an administrative law judge, the National Labor Relations Board has decided.”