Anthony Huxley is “a dancer of superlative refinement with the air of a silent-movie star, caught somehow between the world of the speaking and the world of dreams. In ballet, where dancers fight to show their best angle, Mr. Huxley is prized for his line and poetic sensibility.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Will Spotify Survive 2017?
The Swedish firm, which accounts for a huge percentage of music consumed in the U.S. and has delayed its public offering to 2018, might be “too big to fail” – or it might just fail. “Spotify must pay ever larger sums to its creditors just to settle the interest on its loan, while the amount of money it can raise from its IPO is trimmed by an ever greater amount.”
The Importance – And Necessity – Of Islamic Philosophers
Sure, many of them are religious – but so are the medieval Christian ‘philosophers’ we study, including Thomas Aquinas. They believed in the Quran, but also “engaged in detailed disputes over such central philosophical issues as free will, atomism and the sources of moral responsibility, and debated such technicalities as the inherence of properties in substances, or the status of non-existing objects.”
The Most Prolific British Woman Artist Is Marianne North, An Underappreciated Victorian [VIDEO]
Marianne North traveled around the world, dropping her easel anywhere – including in the thickest Brazilian rainforest – to paint the flora and fauna of the area. She bequeathed her oil paintings to Kew Gardens, and she designed a gallery to hold them as well.
Is The British Acting System Weighted Against The Working-Class?
As the BAFTAs roll out Sunday night, actors grapple with the fact that their industry has become more exclusive. “‘It’s not enough being talented – these days you need cash,’ said Steve Coogan, who went to drama school thanks largely to a state grant. The absence of public support, Coogan believes, means that it is now only ‘privileged actors who, as well as being talented, can go to drama school because they have family money to provide the cushion for them.'”
In France, The Mere Existence Of Books Can Threaten A Discouraged – And Unrepresented – Working Class
Édouard Louis, author of the new book “The End of Eddy,” about growing up gay in a conservative small town: “However different Baldwin’s childhood was from De Beauvoir’s, mine was like neither of theirs: in my childhood, there were no books. My parents have never read a book in their lives; there wasn’t a single book in our house. For us, a book was a kind of assault: it represented a life we would never have, the life of people who pursue an education, who have time to read, who have gone to university and had an easier time of it than us.”
Buchi Emecheta, Nigerian Writer Whose Books Revealed The Lives Of Women Like Her, Has Died At 72
Emecheta always knew what she wanted to do: “One day she was beaten in front of her class when she announced that she wanted to be a writer. It was a cherished dream, born when she visited the family’s ancestral village, Ibuza, and listened to a blind aunt telling stories about their people, the Ibo.”
Grammys Host James Corden Honestly Loves Music, And The Musicians Behind It All
Corden, who sings with musicians during the popular “Carpool” segment of his “Late Late Show,” is hosting the Grammys tonight, and he loves everyone, including the two ultra-famous women up against each other for major awards: “I’m pleased to live in a world where I would never have to make a choice between Adele and Beyoncé.
The Surprise – And Challenge – Of Suddenly Being Asked To Conduct The New York Phil
When conductor Semyon Bychkov fell ill halfway through an afternoon rehearsal, assistant conductor Joshua Gersen stepped in – and then got to lead the orchestra at that night’s performance as well, “leading impassioned and incisive accounts of Tchaikovsky’s symphonic poem ‘Francesca da Rimini,’ a piece he had never conducted, and the intense ‘Pathétique’ Symphony, a work he had previously led only in part.”
An Opening Artists’ Salvo Against Anything That Divides The U.S. And Mexico
Michael Govan of LACMA, about the Pacific Standard Time art festival opening in the fall, known as PST LA/LA (one of the LAs is for Latin America): “We have so much to do to make everyone understand how connected our cultures are — how connected we are. … There is no us and them. There is just us and us.”