The Kitchen is still storm-ravaged (even its phones don’t work), but the theatre will produce a final closing weekend for Richard Maxwell’s Neutral Hero, which was up when Hurricane Sandy hit.
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Greek Orthodox Church Really Doesn’t Like Gay Jesus
“The actors and creative team behind a play that depicts Jesus Christ and his apostles as gay face charges of blasphemy in Greece, according to court officials.”
William Turnbull, 90, Sculptor Who Encapsulated The Postwar Generation
“From the typical modernist immersion in tribal art and idols to minimalism, he experienced and expressed it all, yet he absorbed the influences and remade them, so that the work he produced could never be mistaken for anything but his. He was one of the most authoritative, expressive and subtle artists of his generation.”
Yes, Beethoven’s Fifth Is A Warhorse. Now Stop Your Whining And Love It.
“The landscape is saturated with information, the age of mechanical reproduction that Walter Benjamin so famously worried over is now inherent. One could think of warhorses as the monopolizing surplus of that reproduction, reprints squeezing out the space for new releases. But one could also think of them as watchclock checkpoints — fixed stations in the cultural warehouse, keys that we need to periodically turn in order to keep our bearings among an ever-expanding floor plan.”
Seduced By The Glowing Light Of The Kindle
And letting go of the guilt over killing bookstores.
Should Critics Know Anything Before They Go To A Movie?
Slate (once again) proves that analysis and enjoyment are not always contingent on depth of knowledge.
We All Love Apps, But Can Their Makers Survive?
“They did not actually have jobs at Apple. It was freelance work that came with nothing in the way of a regular income, health insurance or retirement plan. Instead, the Grimeses tried to prepare by willingly, even eagerly, throwing overboard just about everything they could.”
One More Episode! (But Where Has The Great Sci-Fi On TV Gone?)
SyFy: You may be producing some Battlestar Galactica prequels, but why aren’t you doing anything else interesting?
Why Can’t Horror Deliver?
Sci-fi and crime (oh yes, we used to call them “mystery”) novels have busted out of their imposed genre confines, onto the literary landscape. Why hasn’t horror?
Culture Wars: Far From Over, Despite (Or Because Of) Election Results
“The American division is not essentially about partisan politics or ideological labels, and it can only sometimes be reduced to questions of economic policy. It is sometimes but not always about racial resentment, sometimes but not always about the contested public role of Christianity, and often but not always about big words that are inherently squashy and subjective.”