It’s partly because, unlike most e-readers, print books can be fetish objects. “Publishers’ production values have soared and bookshops have begun to fill up with books with covers of jewel-like beauty, often with gorgeously textured pages. As the great American cover designer Peter Mendelsund put it to me, books have ‘more cloth, more foil, more embossing, page staining, sewn bindings, deckled edges.'”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Actor Playing Character Highlighting Racism In Britain Is Not So Randomly ‘Approached’ By Police Outside Of Theatre Before Show
Actor Oraine Johnson said, “It’s nothing special that happened to me. It’s something that happens, it’s happened before, it’s happened to my grandfather and my father. Growing up as a black male I know stuff like this happens. It was just ironic it happened before a show about racism.”
Egypt’s National Ballet Is Rebuilding And Planning For The Future
Things went badly wrong for the National Ballet during the Arab Spring and the conservative religious backlash that followed. “The company is still recovering from the turmoil. Most foreign dancers fled amid the 2011 uprising. Foreign ballerinas are back, but now the company — like the rest of Egypt — struggles with austerity measures imposed by the government to repair the damaged economy. Funds are tighter. After devaluations, even the best paid dancers make the equivalent of only a few hundred dollars a month.”
Music Teachers Become Immortal Through Their Students’ Instruments
“We are used to talking about composers who live on through their music. But music teachers enjoy an almost genealogical immortality through their students, regardless of those pupils’ later fame. Because music making is practiced through the body, teachers imprint their students with the specific physical traits of their craft: gestures, tics and preferences that those students may in turn pass on to yet another generation.”
Claudia Rankine On Katrina, ‘Get Out,’ And The Current Administration
“I have to give a convocation talk at Wesleyan, and so I’m working on The Talk—that’s what it’s called. I’m thinking, what do you say to these twenty-year-olds, these twenty-one-year-olds? What occurs to me is that it’s not about how powerful we are, it’s about how powerless we are. And in the face of the lack of power, what do we do then? What do we do then? That’s really the question. Are we willing to fail and fail in order to continue to say no to this? Because that’s what we should be doing.”
How Can Theatres Best Sell New Plays, Or New Kinds Of Plays, To Their Audiences?
Basically, says a theatre-maker who had the experience and then did the research, theatres doing what she calls lesser-known work “must paint a detailed picture of the experience with information that appeals to both the practical and adventurous sides of our audience members.”
Cannes Turns 70, Divorces Netflix, And Might Need To Have Some (Digital) Work Done
Netflix is banned starting next year, unless it agrees to release its movies in theatres. “Ted Sarandos previously said something like, ‘We’re not going to bother with these old Parisian theatres.’ But we, at Cannes, care dearly about these old Parisian theatres.”
The Dutch Seem To Be Dragging Their Feet In Getting Nazi-Looted Art Back To Survivors And Their Families
The Allies returned about 9,000 works – less than half of those looted by the Nazis – to the Netherlands, but the Netherlands didn’t make much progress in getting them back to the original owners – and now the panel that makes decisions is supposed to consider “‘the significance of the work to public art collections’ against the emotional attachment of the claimant.” That’s not going particularly well for the claimants.
What It’s Really Like To Work With The Wachowskis On ‘Sense8’
The Verge: “When Lana talks about her work, she tends to put it in heady, intellectual terms, looking at deconstructionism and semiotics and Jacques Derrida and Kant. Does she bring up that kind of philosophy when she’s talking to the cast?”
Freema Agyeman: “Oh yeah, she does, but we can only contribute so far, because we just kind of go, ‘Huh?’ [Laughs] They’re incredibly erudite, and that’s fascinating. You can sit and learn so much from them.”
How To Write A Novel (Or A Few) In A Family With Kids
First of all, preschool. Then, a nanny. And finally: “We drag our weary carcasses to a coffee shop to acquire the strong espresso drinks that are all that stand between us and total creative defeat.”