“Like its editor, The New York Review is elegant, well mannered, immensely learned, a little formal at times, obsessive about clarity and factual correctness and passionately interested in human rights and the way governments violate them.” But Robert Silvers is 82. Who can possibly succeed him?
Author: ArtsJournal2
You’ve Got A Phone-Hacking Scandal; We’ve Got Theatre
The National Theatre of Scotland is hard at work on a production about the phone-hacking scandals in the U.K. – and the play’s to be called Enquirer, of course.
An Indian Town Devoted To Dance Clears Out To Tour The States
“Nrityagram was founded in 1990 as a gurukul, or residential village of learning, by the actress Protima Bedi. … Her vivid personality and love affairs were one part of her legend, but another was her commitment to Indian classical dance, and in particular Odissi, of which she became by all accounts a compelling exponent. In essence Nrityagram remains as she had hoped: an idyllic place where it is not unusual for people to dance — usually with live musicians — morning, noon, and night.”
If Music Be The Food Of Love, Eat These Sonnets
In honor of the London Olympics and Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee, pop singers and classical musicians use Elizabethan instruments to bring Shakespeare’s sonnets to contemporary recording. “It’s been 400 years in the making,” says one musician.
If You’re Not Letting Kids (And Yourself) Read For Pleasure, You’re Messing With The Future
Novelist Frank Cottrell Boyce: “Pleasure is a form of attention. If you can take pleasure in something – an idea, an activity – then your brain will happily entertain it for years without aim or objective. It’s therefore a particularly open form of thinking that allows you to surprise yourself and the rest of humanity.”
In That Green And Pleasant Land, Green Building Practices Take Off
Like the U.S.’s LEED program, England’s BREEAM awards ecologically sound building practices – and there are more awards this year than ever before.
You Can Practically Smell That Novel’s Writing (Your Brain Thinks It’s Real)
Read about a smell – and your brain thinks you’re smelling it. Read about a soccer game – and your brain thinks you’re playing it. Especially if it’s fiction. Who says reading isn’t a good workout?
Swearing Gets You An R, But Killing Teenagers Means A PG-13. Um, What?
Will this season’s outrage over the (deeply flawed) MPAA ratings system finally produce an overhaul?
Last Year’s Best New Artist Makes Celebrity Serve The Music
Esperanza Spaulding, bassist and singer who earned the wrath of millions of Justin Bieber fans when she won the Grammy for Best New Artist last year, widens her spotlight to include her band members – and jazz itself.
Art Detectives Flood The Zone In Florence – And Search For A Rumored Leonardo
“With plenty of enduring historical puzzles to solve, as well as a series of fictional riddles courtesy of thriller writers from Dan Brown to Sarah Dunant, the work of the skilled teams that interrogate the stories behind the art of the Renaissance has never looked so alluring. That this trade also allows practitioners to live among the chief exhibits just adds to the appeal.”