She had a “prodigious” list of roles in movies, usually character acting and bit parts, but one of her biggest contributions was founding the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre.
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George Saunders: What Do Writers Actually *Do* When They Write?
Saunders, whose novel Lincoln in the Bardo just came out and is on many bestseller lists: “We often discuss art this way: the artist had something he ‘wanted to express’, and then he just, you know … expressed it. We buy into some version of the intentional fallacy: the notion that art is about having a clear-cut intention and then confidently executing same. The actual process, in my experience, is much more mysterious and more of a pain in the ass to discuss truthfully.”
Laurie Anderson On Lou Reed As A Writer, Their Retirement Plans, And Their Archives
Anderson doesn’t want the archives to go to a university where no one can access them. That said, some things can’t be captured: “The one thing I really miss from this archive that was such a big part of Lou — and can’t really be archived — is his dedication to meditation. He made a very extensive study of the nature of mind, but there is no physical trace of it. He left no footprints.”
Sarasota Ballet Dancers Vote To Unionize
The 26-year-old company’s dancers voted to join the American Guild of Musical Artists. Negotiations for a contract begin in two weeks.
U.S. Billionaires Bought Up Artistic Treasures From Abroad – And The U.K. Wants Its Stuff Back
Much of the artwork, and sometimes entire rooms or domiciles too, is lost. As in, no one knows where it is, who owns it, and how the U.K. might get it back. The U.S. was desperate for a British or European shine, and “the trade was frenzied. When the Titanic sank in 1912, 30 tons of crated English architectural objects were on board.”
Paula Fox, Who Wrote Award-Winning Books For Adults And Children, Has Died At Age 93
Fox wrote for every age, and so, critics said, her adult work was often discounted. “Fox’s best-known novel for adults is ‘Desperate Characters’ (1970), about the disintegration of a marriage. It was made into a film of the same title, released the next year and starring Shirley MacLaine and Kenneth Mars.”
The First Fiction Smuggled Out Of North Korea Reveals A Lot About Life There
The book, which was written from 1989-1995 and hidden away until a chain of strangers had the chance to smuggle it out, is a series of stories that “are a frank look at the life of regular citizens trying to get by under a repressive regime. Many of the characters fail to grasp the reality of the world in which they live, either through ignorance, stubbornness, or a misguided hope that the regime is more reasonable than it really is.”
Downsizing Baby Boomers Are Flooding Museums With Donated Art
In addition to changing how nonprofits deal with donations, “the flood of works that may be coming to institutions around the country in the next decade could broaden the definition of postmodern art.”
Will The New Birmingham Conservatoire Challenge London’s Dominance?
It’s going to be amazing. But, says its director ominously, “this conservatoire, the first to be newly built in Britain since 1987, may well be the last because of the reduction in funding for music.”
Count Another Industry Getting A ‘Trump Bump’: Late Night TV
The late night political hosts have the most to thank the Orange One In Chief for. “Colbert and other late-night talk show hosts are being lifted by the wave of TV viewers turning to late-night comedy to cope with their angst over the new administration.”