The man who defaced the Rothko painting may be claiming that he’s a modern-day Duchamp – and wanting likes on his Facebook page.
Author: ArtsJournal2
Stalked By Alfred Hitchcock – And Taking Her Revenge Now
Tippi Hedren, on why she wouldn’t sleep with Hitchcock: “I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals. This was something I could never have done. I was not interested in him that way at all. I was fortunate enough to work with him, and as far as I was concerned, he ruined everything.”
Telling The Story – And Thereby Changing The Story
In her new film, actor/writer/director Sarah Polley “plays cinematic strip poker with her family’s history, peeling back layers of long-held assumptions to expose new truths, some of which seem tabloid-ready. But Polley didn’t spend the last five of her 33 years making this film just to give us facts. She made it to tell us a story.”
Are We About To Lose Handwriting Forever?
“At some point in recent years, it has stopped being a necessary and inevitable intermediary between people – a means by which individuals communicate with each other, putting a little bit of their personality into the form of their message as they press the ink-bearing point on to the paper. It has started to become just one of many options, and often an unattractive, elaborate one.”
Shrines, And Cultural Heritage, Under Attack In Libya
“Before the latest incident, people took to the streets in Libya’s capital city, Tripoli, demanding that the newly elected parliament intervene to protect the country’s vulnerable cultural heritage.”
Google+ Doesn’t Want A Billion Users; It Wants Your Love
“Among avowed users, there’s an almost cult-like evangelism, and it’s just about impossible to talk to G+ users — “Plussers” — without getting into stories that involve deep emotions.”
The Voice Trumps Everything (Including Social Media) At Storytellers’ Convention
In Tennessee, 10,000 storytellers turn off their phones and head into the story tents.
Working Out With The Scottish Ballet (Via The Wonders Of Technology)
“The idea is to give people a taster of what it’s like on a day-to-day basis for the dancers and get an idea of what kind of exercise they’re doing.”
Albert Camus On Adapting Doystoyevsky For The Theatre
“Camus first read Dostoyevsky when he was 20 years old, and later called it a ‘soul-shaking experience.’ He was moved by the moral weight of Dostoyevsky’s words. When the horrors of Stalin’s purges came to light, Camus refused to look away. As he later said, ‘The real 19th century prophet was Dostoyevsky, not Karl Marx.'”
No (Legal) Complaint About A Nude Canadian Prime Minister
“Titled Emperor Haute Couture, it shows a smiling, unclothed Harper reclined on a chaise lounge with a dog by his feet and a woman in business attire offering him a Tim Hortons cup on a silver platter.”