On reaction videos: “The great lesson of the genre is that we are physically different — our couches, beds, hairstyles — but spiritually uniform. A grandmother sitting in front of a ferret cage is the same as two college girls in a dorm room.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
In The UK, Arts Audience Expanding During Economic Contraction
“The audience for cultural events has radically changed in the past few decades. It is a far wider constituency than in the post-war era, the result of education, of radio and television. Art is smart.”
Australian Aboriginal Art Has Succeeded Wildly In The Modern World. Why?
“Modern Western audiences could encounter images that were resonant with the beliefs of an inconceivably ancient culture – one that predated not only metals, ceramics, the wheel, but even agriculture itself – and all in a beguilingly decorative form.”
Can Charles Dickens Be The Next Jane Austen (On TV, Anyway)?
“Now that the Jane Austen vogue may be fading, Dickens, with this bicentenary happily arriving, is the obvious replacement, the gold medallist for the London Olympic year. Very suitable: Dickens was the man who invented London in literature.”
That Symbolic Pardon Of The Turkey Parallels A Terrible Reality
“In the current American context, the turkey pardon is a distasteful parody of the strange power vested in politicians to decide the earthly fates of death-row prisoners.”
The (Re)Rise Of Protest Art In The Occupy Movement(s)
“The strong black-and-white style used against coloured backgrounds by Occupy the Streets with its striding woman, Occupy Philly with its Liberty Bell, and Occupy Portland with its face of a young woman representing the 99%, all share the aesthetics of comic book artists such as Art Spiegelman and Charles Burns.”
Radio Eternity: This NPR Station, Devoted To You, Never Ends
Neverending NPR stories, with a thumbs up or down option to personalize your own eternal station? Yes, please.
Take This Job And … Please? Take This Job?
The New York Philharmonic is out of luck, at least as far as executive directors are concerned. After six rejections, whom should the Phil next court?
In The Wake Of A Massacre, What’s A Crime Novelist To Do?
In Norway, writers deal with a reality worse than the imaginings of the bloodiest of crime novelists.
The Emperor Of Bananas, And His Ballet
He’s lured two of the Bolshoi’s biggest stars to his relatively unknown ballet company in St. Petersburg. Is he an example of new money ruining Russian traditions – or just into the Mikhailovsky?