Audio or it didn’t happen? “A loud bell rings. Its waveforms are so thick it’s as if you can see them floating in the misty San Francisco air. The bell is all stately gravitas. Even if you didn’t know that the nearby school is parochial, you’d sense the bell’s churchly vibe. And then, suddenly, there is silence: Recess has concluded. The bell has marked a juncture.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Pity The Poor Tonys Voter Who Must See Everything
It’s like the Oscars, with producers campaigning for support, and with a short timeline: “The 40 days between the nominations and the awards are intense. Tony voters — 839 people who are connected to Broadway financially, as producers and investors, and artistically, as performers, directors and designers — scramble to see all the shows before the June 9 voting deadline.”
The Decade Of Rachel Weisz
She almost wasn’t a movie star at all because as a student, she preferred the stage. “After Cambridge, she was confident her life in avant-garde theatre was set to continue, until the acting partner with whom she had set up a theatrical company decided to go to Rada and the thing fell apart.”
Taking Seriously The Art And Culture Of Berlin’s Roma Population
The Roma in Europe number about 12 million, the largest ethnic minority in Europe – and after generations of working on it, they’re getting their own institute for arts and culture.
This Is The Poet Who Won One Of The World’s Richest Poetry Prizes
Alice Oswald, a British poet who won the International Griffin poetry prize for her collection Falling Awake, said, “Most of my favourite poets (both dead and alive) have never won prizes. However, in the spirit of carnival, it’s important for all people to wear a crown and ride on a float for a day – as long as they don’t turn up for work in it.”
Will 19th Century European Art Ever Regain Its Popularity?
Maybe not. Sorry, Jean-Léon Gérôme. “‘The issue is that this period is just not sexy any more,’ said Wendy Goldsmith, an art adviser based in London, who was formerly the international head of 19th-century European art at Christie’s. ‘So many collectors have moved through Impressionism and now over to contemporary.'”
Theatre In Quebec Is Bilingual, But What About All Of The Other Cultures In The Province?
It’s quite an intense, complex topic: “Whenever the topic of diversity (or rather the absence of diversity on stage) comes up here, as it often does, the discussion doesn’t immediately go to representation, or how we view one another in Quebec and Canada. Instead the conversation is taken over by people who often see this complex issue as part of a greater, nobler debate on independence, while others use the issue to sway votes their way.”
The Dungeonmaster In The Running At The Tonys
When the playwright J.T. Rogers (of Oslo fame) hangs out with his son, this is exclusive narrative he spins: “His characters, a dwarven king, a 12-foot-tall mountain giant and a half-elven chef, were not interested in brokering peace; they and their army were a bloodthirsty lot, with dwindling food stores, hellbent on conquering a nearby population of gnomes.”
Who Are The Heroes, And Villains, Of New York’s Housing Crisis?
“The question comes back to who the city is for. … Today, the measure of ‘success’ in urban development should be the rate at which democracy rather than money predominates in determining what a city is and what it should become. Activist groups around New York meet on a regular basis to insist on this. But mainstream newspaper accounts cynically reduce real estate coverage to tales about treasure hunts by a lucky few.”
Yes, Occupy Wall Street Has A Literary Legacy
Sure, some nonfiction addresses the impact of Occupy (remember “the 99%”?), but there is also fiction, poetry, and more that describes, pictures, and sums up the legacy (at least so far) of the very large social movement.