Can the U.S. ever catch up? Hm. “Americans say we are modern and experimental. … But for me, I don’t see that. I don’t think it’s that much of a provocative performance at all.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Women Of The BBC Politely (But Firmly) Request Equal Pay For Equal Work
Yikes, BBC, do better (and faster): “Earlier this week, under new government rules, the BBC was required to publish a list of presenters making over £150,000, or about $200,000. The disclosure showed a glaring pay gap at the company. … In one example, John Humphrys, a male host on the flagship news show Radio 4 Today, earns between £600,000-£649,999. His female co-host, Sarah Montague, earns under £150,000.”
What Hemingway Learned From Miro
It was pretty direct (Miró timed Hemingway’s boxing matches, by the way): “Miró models a visual clarity that the writer, for whom the sun was a central symbol, used in the descriptive passages with which so many of his works begin. With Hemingway’s writing, this is not a passive record of the scene, but the probing vigilance of the hunter, fisherman, and combat veteran.”
Vandals Smash And Destroy Heritage Trains Used In ‘Downton Abbey’
After – or during – a nearby festival celebrating the railway, “Eight teak carriages on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in Pickering had windows smashed overnight, with furniture and fixings also ruined. … Fire extinguishers were also set off throughout the carriages, soaking the furniture and wall fittings.”
This Photographer Lived With And Documented The UK’s Industrial Poor
Chris Killip says of his subjects from English towns in the 1970s and 1980s: “They are at the tough end of things, the people in my photographs. … It’s about the struggle for work, being out of work, fighting for work.” (And yes, he sees parallels to the United States today.)
Are There Playwrights (Aside From Mamet) Who Actually *Do* Want To Hear From The Audience In Talkbacks?
Suzan-Lori Parks: “I love them because they are difficult. If they were easy I wouldn’t find them as delightful and delicious.”
Does Canada Put Artists At Risk With Lax Copyright Laws?
Yikes: “The educational loophole has left Canada with the reputation of being lax on copyright; publishers as venerable as Oxford University Press have simply stopped publishing Canadian schoolbooks because they view this market as too risky.”
This Is What Happens When Britain Invades Broadway
Real glassware in the theatre bar, for one thing. And the patrons like it. “‘It shows class,’ said Billy-Grace Ward of Manhattan, who was drinking Champagne before a performance of 1984. ‘It’s not a disposable experience.'”
Top Posts From AJBlogs For The Weekend Of 07.23.17
Is The Stirling Prize For Architecture The Worst Prize Ever?
Rowan Moore is not happy with it. The Stirling “has a magnificent record of not recognising the projects that define their time, of favouring everyone’s second choice and nobody’s first choice, with the result that you could write a convincing history of modern British architecture based on the projects that haven’t won.” And this year? It missed again.