And what does The Crown, for instance, have to do with “the long history of Brexit”? “If its creators are up to the task, the series might well end up less a chronicle of a ruler than a dramatization of the referendum’s long history.”
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Is Great Britain Too Depressed For Museums Now?
Financial constraints, educational culture budgets slashed, and people staying away from the money-suck that is London – “the same economic pressures that have uprooted politics around the world are destroying the aspirations we express when we go to galleries. There is nothing more aspirational than visiting a museum or art gallery. It is an expression of hope.”
What Happens When A Big Break Leads To Exactly Nothing Else?
Alfonso Cuarón’s son filmed a DVD extra for the 2011 film Gravity, starring an Inuit actor and community theatre director from Greenland. The extra film did so well that there was talk of a separate Oscar nomination for it – but the actor was paid a total of $4,000 and didn’t even know the film had done so well until NPR told him.
Next Steps For Middle Eastern Theatre In The U.S.
Though its practitioners say this isn’t a new discussion, the contours of Middle Eastern theatre have taken on sharper focus after the election of Donald Trump. But it’s also very like other theatre for practitioners from communities of color: “The next round is equal parts main stage productions … and expanding to directors and designers of Middle Eastern descent. That would be radical.”
MoMA Joins The Resistance, Hangs Art From ‘Travel Ban’ Countries
Damn, MoMA: “Alongside each painting, sculpture, or photograph is a text that makes no bones about why it has suddenly surfaced: ‘This work is by an artist from a nation whose citizens are being denied entry into the United States, according to a presidential executive order issued on January 27, 2017. This is one of several such artworks from the Museum’s collection installed throughout the fifth-floor galleries to affirm the ideals of welcome and freedom as vital to this Museum, as they are to the United States.'”
Living On The 81st Floor Is A Little Bit Noisy (Plus, The Building Sways)
With new technology, humans are building taller and taller residential – and luxury – skyscrapers. But “the payoff for peace and endless views can be five-minute waits for the lift at rush hour – and even sunburn. ‘You could get tanned in winter if you sat right by the window: there’s a bit of a greenhouse effect,’ the owner of a 64th-floor apartment above Chicago tells me. Vertigo can be another danger.”
Marta Becket, Dancer Who Built An Opera And Ballet Theatre In Death Valley, Dead At 92
Wow: “It was there, amid the alkali flats, whistling winds and triple-digit heat of the Mojave Desert, that Ms. Becket and her husband resettled and built the Amargosa Opera House, where she performed her ballets and pantomimes for the next 40 years. Ms. Becket turned the Amargosa into a cultural institution in a desolate area, an attraction to tourists, ranchers, farmers and even prostitutes from a local bordello.”
Streaming Is Really Killing Sony (Or Is It A Few Big Flops?)
But the current “distant” fourth-place studio isn’t alone: “It is a crisis Sony shares with its Hollywood peers. In the UK and the US, revenue from streaming and downloads of films and TV shows passed sales of DVDs and Blu-ray discs for the first time last year.”
The James Bond Movie Director Who Actually Was A Spy
Well, this is even more dramatic than a Bond flick: “For nearly a month Hamilton managed to avoid detection before escaping back to safety in England. Ten days later the escape route used by the Resistance was uncovered by the Nazis.”
Ten Longform Literary Essays About That Most Unliterary Of Sports, Football
You can prepare for the Super Bowl or you can avoid it – these pieces will help you either way.