“‘Desus & Mero’ is loose, cheerful and profane. ‘Late night as a structure of programming does not matter,’ Mero said. ‘It shouldn’t feel like ‘Yo, here’s the news.’ It should feel like you’re looking on the internet with your friends. ‘Yo, you saw this video? That’s wild!’'”
Author: ArtsJournal2
When Librarians’ Freedom Of Speech Gets Silenced, What Do The Rest Of Us Have?
“Parsons added, ‘This is private property.’ It is revealing that a policeman should have imagined, even in a heated moment, that a public library was private property.”
The Art Of Asking Cubans To Imagine Running For President
“‘Let’s use the 2018 election to change the culture of fear,’ Ms. Bruguera said in the one-and-a-half-minute video, adding, ‘To make a Cuba that is run by us all, not by a few.'”
‘Symphony From The New World’ Is The Best Of All Time, No Contest
“The first movement, the Adagio — Allegro molto, is fine. It’s actually extremely good, but if a first movement is good, you’re only acknowledging it on a subconscious level. It keeps you invested. It pulls you into the rest of piece without making a show of it.”
A Play That Cuts Close To Home For One-Woman Powerhouse Anna Deavere Smith
“The protean actress and playwright has spent her career interviewing and then embodying people of different races and divergent points of view — ‘chasing that which is not me,’ as she put it in a recent interview. But her new play, ‘Notes From the Field,’ a prolonged meditation on education and criminal justice, is different.”
Twenty Reasons That We Should All Be Reading Literary Magazines
“3. They have great names: Prairie Schooner, River Teeth, Barrelhouse, Hobart, Tin House, ZYZZYVA, River Styx, Pleiades, Alligator Juniper.”
Ang Lee Pleads With Critics – And The Audience – To Give High-Frame Movie A Chance
“It felt different than a movie. … It felt like a kind of virtual reality.”
Critics Are So Over High Frame Rates
“Critics are now grappling with the particular ‘hyper real’ look of [Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk], a visual experience that apparently gives both clarity and immediacy to the film’s battlefield scenes, and an odd stiltedness to the everyday life. (And that’s not even getting into their thoughts about poor Steve Martin’s face.)”
The Great French Slapstick Actor And Director Who Faced Down Decades Of Legal Obstacles To Showing His Films
“Mr. Étaix (pronounced ay-TEX), an actor as well as a director, specialized in a deadpan visual comedy, animated by sight gags, funny sound effects and fantasy sequences that harked back to the silent films of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Max Linder as well as his own background as a circus performer.”
How Important Is Childhood Dreaming? Ask An Award-Winning Illustrator
“You mustn’t be fearful of being imaginative. You might seem foolish in the eyes of many, but you mustn’t be fearful of it, because it’s the thing that’s going to get you through all the times that are not so good.”