How does the station Bravo keep people addicted to its reality TV shows? A composer says that he and others make the station sound like candy: “midcentury spy film vibraphones. Tchaikovskian pizzicato — that is, finger-plucked — violin strings. The melodious wooden tock-tock-tock of a struck marimba. Egg shakers. Cymbals which, when struck in succession, vibrate with an ephemeral sound halfway between a wish and a sparkle.”
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The Myth Of Artist Agnes Martin, Recluse, Dissolves Into The Reality Of Agnes Martin, Connected And Committed To Her Community
She lived in community wherever she was, but truly found a home in Taos. “As a poor, queer female artist who suffered from schizophrenia, Martin existed on the margins of society for most of her life. After spending the 1950s living in poverty, she achieved critical success in the 1960s and commercial success thereafter. In the 1990s she had made millions off her art and was eager to repay the kindness her community had showed her during her own years of struggle.”
Evelyn Anthony, Writer Of Spy Stories, Has Died At 92
She entered a field dominated by men like John Le Carré and Ian Fleming, and found fertile ground in the rivalries among Britain’s intelligence services. Getting to know actual WWII spies changed her writing, her life, and the genre.
Telling The Story Of A Kingdom Through Textiles
In the Kuba Kingdom of the 17th and 18th centuries, before European colonialism, “royal ceremonies and parties sometimes had the feel of a runway showdown, with elites competing to see whose patterns were most unique and impressive. … Designs needed to scream and to be heard from a distance. They were engineered to capture the eye and not allow it to rest. “
A Second-Generation Playwright Who Took Her Mother’s Advice
Or rather, she took her mother’s story and melded it into a new play. Playwright Jaclyn Backhaus on why her new play includes pirates: “It’s a pirate attitude that got my mom to where she is. … t’s a pirate attitude that lot of people with dreams face when they’re trying to attain them.”
What Life’s Like For A Multitasking Creator
Alicia Jo Rabins, on pulling together discussions among writer/musicians about serving two different disciplines: “It’s not that unusual to work in multiple disciplines, but sometimes I feel a bit lonely about it. For so many of us, there’s no single word to describe our practice, no easy answer to the question ‘what do you do?'”
The Instagram Account That Started As A Lark And Became An Art Exhibit
Guadalupe Rosales started with some 1990s photos of friends, photos called “star shots” from mall photography studios. From there, her work became an Instagram archive to catalogue the history of Mexican Americans in Los Angeles. “‘I’ve gotten so many emails, people thanking me, saying, ‘I’m so glad that there is something out there that is representing a part of our culture,’ Rosales says of her Instagram accounts. ‘It’s nice to hear that. It validates that there was something missing — part of history.'”
The True Power Of Katniss Everdeen Goes Way Beyond The ‘Hunger Games’ Rebellion Sign
The author of Belles echoes the author of An Ember in the Ashes in her appreciation for the protagonist of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series (and they say we need a little more Katniss right now): “I needed to read girls like her; girls who weren’t so nice; girls so angry that their rage could topple anything in their path; girls that could face the dark; girls who could never be contained.”
In The Instagram Age, What’s Next For Photography?
Maybe photographers have been too worried about photography losing relevance. Indeed, it’s highly relevant. “One could argue from this evidence that it is the medium of our time, not just defining our globally connected digital image culture, but propelling it. Even a decade ago, no one could have predicted the seismic shift that has occurred in our relationship with – and use of – the photographic image.”
The Roald Dahl Museum Was Massively Flooded This Year, But It’s Reopening
Appropriately punny for a museum that celebrates the author of The BFG, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and James and the Giant Peach (not to mention Matilda), “Isabelle Reynolds, from the museum, said: ‘We hope the closure hasn’t put a dampener on things.'”