“I often buy music on Bandcamp, because I know I’m putting a sandwich in someone’s mouth. But a lot more often, I just listen. All of the time I’ve spent there has felt beautifully unmediated, and mostly dedicated to one kind of music.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
How To Write Stories, According To A Hugo Nominee (Now A Winner)
“I live on these borders – and these borders that allow me to see from multiple perspectives and kind of take things in and then kind of process certain ideas and certain stories in a very unique way. And that has led me to write this strange fiction that I write, which really isn’t that strange if you really look at it through a sort of skewed lens.”
Here’s How To Answer People Who Say They ‘Hate’ Contemporary Classical Music
“Subjectivity isn’t actually a matter of taste. It’s a matter of expectation.”
Who Takes Athletes From The Olympics To Lucrative Sponsorship Deals?
Talent agencies, of course: “Agents help connect Olympians with Madison Avenue and corporate America, lining up deals for endorsements, speaking tours and television commentary jobs, among other opportunities. And some stars of the Rio Olympics, which end Sunday, could reap millions of dollars.”
When Hollywood Loses Control Of Its Own Narrative
“That’s part of what Searchlight was betting on: the simple allure of an auteur and his singular artistic vision to usher a film to greatness. They simply failed to fully research, contemplate, or understand the implications of that alignment.”
The New York Times’ Public Editor Is Not Enamored Of The Paper’s Facebook Live Forays
Someone had to say it: “I have hit upon many that are either plagued by technical malfunctions, feel contrived, drone on too long, ignore audience questions or are simply boring, by I imagine most anyone’s standards. Too many don’t live up to the journalistic quality one typically associates with The New York Times.”
What Did Shakespeare Mean When He Had Coriolanus Criticize The Vox Populi So Many Times?
“With the Trump campaign and Brexit getting credit for drawing on populist angst, Coriolanus deserves a second look.The play can help us reconsider what populism is and the ways a ‘populist’ movement can be fostered by, yet not necessarily conducive to, democracy.”
The Married-est Symphony Ever, Or, Whatever PR People Need To Do To Sell Tickets
“Six of the couples perform with the orchestra, and eight are in the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, the orchestra’s all-volunteer choir. The BSO’s associate concertmaster and his freelance violinist wife are also performing.”
Why Are People So Obsessed With The Ageist, Body-Shaming Statues Of Trump?
“Let’s push aside the notion of it as art straight off. It’s more in the company of the evolving gutter press of 18th-century England. … No Balls has little affinity with great political art, past or present.”
When A Movie Poster Goes Very, Very Wrong In Hong Kong
“As political slip-ups go, accidentally wading into the issue of Hong Kong independence is about as bad as it gets.”