Margaret Atwood: “People – not only women – have sent me photographs of their bodies with phrases from The Handmaid’s Tale tattooed on them, ‘Nolite te bastardes carborundorum’ and ‘Are there any questions?’ being the most frequent.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Younger Than Standard Time, L.A. Artists React To The Shows
Not surprisingly, young artists in L.A. have conflicting reactions to Pacific Standard Time. “It felt odd to see the whole institution historicized in this way. It’s like if you take your childhood and make a museum show out of it or something.”
Cate Blanchett Bows Out Of Theatre Company
After a successful six-year run as co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company, Blanchett and husband Andrew Upton will end their run at the close of the 2013 season. What will happen to the theatre after its celebrity directors leave?
Apple Will Alter E-Book Publishing, And Maybe The Nature Of Journalism
“Should every three-part newspaper series be turned into an ebook? Should every sports season produce a newspaper-generated ebook made up of the year’s game stories, player profiles, and so on? Should a compilation of a newspaper’s restaurant reviews be pushed out as a $2.99 ebook each year?”
At Long Last, Two Hollywood Actors Unions Merger Talks Advance
“The proposed merger plan comes after nearly two years of negotiations between leaders of both groups to join forces in a bid to gain more leverage in contract negotiations with employers and to end a long history of feuding over bargaining strategy and other matters.”
WIkipedia Will Shut Down Wednesday To Protest Internet Privacy Act
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales tweeted on Monday, “Student warning! Do your homework early. Wikipedia protesting bad law on Wednesday!” WIkipedia’s far from the only website to go dark on Wednesday – but Hollywood says the tech companies are reacting stupidly. What’s the deal?
Rosamond Bernier’s Charmed Life Beats ‘Midnight in Paris’ To Pieces
“In 1947, Vogue magazine sent Rosamond Bernier to Paris to cover European cultural life as it recovered after World War II. She met everyone who was anybody — Pablo Picasso befriended her, Henri Matisse wooed her, Alice B. Toklas baked for her.” And Aaron Copland gave her away at her wedding.
Men With Women On The Brain Don’t Perform As Well (Cognitively Speaking)
For heterosexual men, even the thought of a woman can be be hard on brain function. “This mental-depletion dynamic can be triggered by the simple idea of such an encounter — even when a man has no clue regarding a woman’s attractiveness or availability.”
An Architect, Crocheting Clouds To Learn More About Them
Argentinean architect Ciro Najle “says crochet is the perfect medium for representing fractal structures because its surfaces can be subdivided again and again by varying the length of neighbouring crochet lines.”
Early Music Gets A Massive Boost
“On Tuesday, the Juilliard School is announcing a $20 million gift to endow its graduate-level program in historical performance. The sheer size of the gift is enough to make heads snap in the early-music world, whose practitioners typically struggle to stay a step ahead of poverty.”