“It seems it is only a matter of time before there is an award for the best award – as if no Canadian author or publishing house should be left out in the cold.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
When Pierre Boulez Went Electric
Boulez’s goal for the French Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique “was not to replace instrumental with electronic music, but to work so that the two would mingle and, in Boulez’s words, ‘live together like cotton and rayon.'”
Actor Anthony Rapp Claims ‘Sexual Advance’ By Kevin Spacey When Rapp Was 14
“As Spacey’s star began to rise through the 1990s and 2000s — including a Tony Award, two Oscars, a decadelong run as the creative director of the Old Vic theater in London, and six seasons and counting on the hit Netflix series House of Cards — Rapp’s frustration, anger, and incredulity with the sexual boundary he said Spacey crossed with him grew as well. Seeing Spacey now, ‘My stomach churns,’ Rapp said. ‘I still to this day can’t wrap my head around so many aspects of it. It’s just deeply confusing to me.'”
Jane Juska, The Woman Whose New York Review Of Books Personal Ad Birthed A Book About Sex For Older Women, Has Died At 84
The book, A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance, came from a rather literary place: It “grew out of a personal ad Juska placed in the New York Review of Books in 1999. Inspired by an Eric Rohmer film, Autumn Tale, it read: ‘Before I turn 67 – next March – I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me.'”
A Death-Obsessed Canadian Composer Who Died Young And Violently Gets A Moment Of Warmth And Performance
“The Canadian composer Claude Vivier should be the great downer of modern music. But so shimmering are Vivier’s drones, so sweetly childlike his invented languages and mystical geographies, so energetic his need to communicate his cravings and insecurities, that the effect is one of warmth rather than dread.”
One Hundred And Fifty Writers Later, This Guy Has Some Carefully Distilled Advice
First of all, writers, you really are not going to clean the house. Don’t do it. Stop it. “If you’re not making the time to write, no other advice can help you.”
From Broke Alt-Rock Guitarist To In-Demand Hollywood Composer
Tyler Bates, who has scored both Guardians of the Galaxy movies and a whole lot more, says, “The thing I love about film is — as nerve-racking as it is because it’s not like they give me a locked picture to score — it’s frenetic and a triathlon, but when you work with geniuses and studios that have massive investments in a property, you know what it’s like to be alive. You are running alongside failure, everyday, all the time.”
Police And Prosecutors Seize An Ancient Limestone Relief At The European Fine Art Fair In Park Slope
Friday around 2 p.m., “cursing could be heard coming from a London dealer’s booth, breaking the quiet, reverential atmosphere. To the consternation of several art dealers looking on, the police and prosecutors seized an ancient limestone bas-relief of a Persian soldier with shield and spear, which once adorned a building in the ruins of Persepolis in Iran, according to a search warrant.”
Charges Of Animal Cruelty For An Art Installation With Live Mice
It’s not just those afraid of mice who are being tortured in this installation, say mouse experts: “There are 70 white mice in individual boxes set like tiles on the floor of a gallery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. In clear plexiglass cages, designed to be stepped upon, they peer up underfoot in an exhibition exploring phobia.”
Linda Nochlin, The Trailblazing Feminist Art Historian Whose 1971 Essay Changed The Discipline, Has Died At 86
The article “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” – which argued quite clearly against the canon as well as against male-dominated notions of greatness – “would have been enough to secure her place as one of art history’s most important writers, but over the course of her six-decade career, she also made formidable contributions to the study of Realism and Gustav Courbet, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and numerous contemporary artists.”