“Conway engages with the key debates of European philosophy of the period — the relationship between mind and body, the nature of matter, the attributes of God — and with the key philosophers. What she also does is bring concepts into the treatise from the Lurianic Kabbalah, the sixteenth-century school of Jewish mysticism.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The ‘Hamilton’ Movie Is Probably 20 Years Away, And Other News About The Show
“Since Broadway producers are loathe to put out a movie that might cannibalize their ticket sales, most film adaptations are only released years after the initial frenzy has died down. (The Wicked movie will hit theaters 15 years after the show opened; Les Miz took 25.)”
Michael Herr Wrote ‘Dispatches,’ Widely Considered The Best Book On Vietnam – And One Of The Best Books, Full Stop
“Published in 1977, almost a decade after his yearlong sojourn in Vietnam and after he had recovered from his own bout of depression brought on by his war experience, the book was a sensation, an acutely observed, acutely felt, wisely interpretative travelogue of hell, deeply sympathetic to the young American conscripts, and deeply skeptical of the political and military powers that kept them there.”
When A Flash Fiction Writer Goes Long(er)
“I’m mildly obsessed with the modular story because I like not having to tell a linear story all the time. I also love white space, and jumping around in time, place, or character point of view.”
Desperate For A ‘Hamilton’ Ticket? Do You Have $3000 For Hillary Clinton?
The special extra matinee fundraiser is on July 12, though, which is after Leslie Odom Jr., Philippa Soo and Lin-Manuel Miranda all exit the cast.
The Physics Of A Cup Of Coffee [VIDEO]
Coffee drinkers, settle in with a mug for this (French, subtitled) exploration of what, exactly, makes that mug work.
Bill Cunningham, Photographer Of New York Street And Society Fashion, Has Died At 87
“In his nearly 40 years working for The Times, Mr. Cunningham operated both as a dedicated chronicler of fashion and as an unlikely cultural anthropologist, one who used the changing dress habits of the people he photographed to chart the broader shift away from formality and toward something more diffuse and individualistic.”
A Manhattan Rent Spike May Put The Joffrey Ballet School Out Of Business
“The school was negotiating to buy the building in 2014 when the owners sold it instead to the Sabet Group for $24 million. Sabet more than doubled the $40,000 annual rent to a crippling $108,000, according to Joffrey executive director Christopher D’Addario.”
How Did A New York Fashion Collective Turn The Berlin Biennale Into A Sick Joke?
“Welcome to the LOL biennial. And brace yourselves.”
Not All New Music Is Contemporary; Not All Contemporary Music Is New
“New Music is inherently in a difficult ideological position: it is in conflict with the economic, educational, and political structures that contribute to its birth, but it must simultaneously reconcile itself to them in order to attempt to bypass the anticipated consequences that these very conditions cause.”