Wait, what? “We wouldn’t have time to engrave each Oscar on the spot, so we pre-engrave the name of every nominee on to plaques beforehand.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Richard Schickel, Long The Film Critic At Time, Has Died At 84
“In a career spanning five decades, thousands of reviews and dozens of books, Schickel chronicled Hollywood’s changing landscape, from the days when studios reigned with stars such as Katharine Hepburn to the rise of independent directors who summoned a new wave of realism that distilled the yearnings of a turbulent nation. A reviewer for Time magazine, Schickel had a legion of followers; he could be incisive and at times bruising in praising or panning a film.”
Does The Cleveland Orchestra Have A Future In Miami?
Or rather, is its future going to be trimmed? “Miami is expensive. Everything from lodging and food to transportation costs a pretty penny down there, and the orchestra is an enormous outfit. If saving money is a goal, an effective move would be to reduce the amount of time the ensemble spends there.”
Greece Is Having A Moment
That is, ancient Greece: “The times we are living in have forced us to acknowledge that there is a darkness in humanity. … The Greek tragedies, those stories of darkness and obsession and revenge, resonate because we’re living in dark times and these are dark stories.”
How A Writer Can Be Harrowing Without Giving Her Soul Away
Finding essays outside one’s personal experience “would be work that was harrowing in another sense of the word, which originally referred to preparing fields for planting by breaking up the soil. A true harrowing essay would dig deeper, ultimately performing a generative function.”
Against The Odds, These Two Actors Appear Together In Two Best Picture Nominees
In a banner year for movies with black actors in the lead, Mahershala Ali and Janelle Monáe both created breakthrough performances in “Moonlight.” They cemented their year with their work in “Hidden Figures.” For Ali, the recognition comes after decades of a steady acting career; for Monáe, a successful musician, “Moonlight” was her first time onscreen.
One Neuroscientist Wants To Understand Why People Who See UFOs Seem To Feel Really, Really Good
Wait, what? Instead of becoming hostile or paranoid or more like Fox Mulder, 85 percent of people who believe they’ve encountered UFOs or aliens “become more humane, experience a oneness with the world. They become less interested in organized religion, they become more spiritual, they have less interest in monetary values, and become more sensitive to the ecological welfare of our planet, among many other psychospiritual outcomes.”
The City Of Bath Has Its Arts Grants Slashed 100 Percent, And Equity Appeals To The Secretary Of Culture
Equity says, “The council has committed an act of cultural vandalism in Bath that will result in a new dark age for arts and culture in the region.”
The Art Market: A Partner (Witting Or Un-) In Crime
The secrecy of the seller might have to go the way of an expectation of no selfies at museums, but for better reasons: “This sort of discretion — one founded in a simpler time, when only a few wealthy collectors took part in the art market — is not only quaint but also reckless when art is traded like a commodity and increasingly suspected in money laundering.”
Remember The Suzuki Method? What Is It, Really?
Take learning by ear, combine it with some out-of-control pop psychology, and mix in experimentation and perhaps some flat-out lies of biography, and you’ll get this pedagogy that powers much of North American violin teaching.