“The bodies that represent an art form are female, but the minds moving those bodies around on stage — for the last century and in the coming one — are mostly male. Dancers come and go. Choreographers can enjoy a kind of eternal life, and immortality shouldn’t be granted to one gender but withheld from another.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
What Can We Gain By Thinking Of The Present As If We’re Already In The Future?
“What I tried to do was think about the present day using the criteria we use to think about, say, the 14th century because it doesn’t seem the same as the criteria we use for looking at the culture, you know, in a normal, sort of everyday way.”
Does This Holograph Represent The End Of Pop Music?
“Japan’s Hatsune Miku, making her Canadian concert debut, incited the same unbridled glee among the sold-out crowd of 3,000 as a human would at the top of her game, despite the fact that Miku is a software program represented in concert by a hologram.”
Will ‘Hamilton’ Change The Supreme Court?
“How judges imagine the original meaning of the Constitution depends on their intuitions—half historical, half mythical—about the Founding narrative. If you can change the myth, you can change the Constitution. And ‘Hamilton’ is changing the myth.”
Why Can’t The Great British Bake Off Translate Into A Successful American Spinoff?
“The most damning thing one can say about [the American] ‘Bake Off’ is that it’s sweet TV, the television equivalent of a feel-good Upworthy post that would go viral on Facebook (‘This Show About Cakes Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity’).”
If This Is True About London, What Does It Mean For That City’s Arts?
“If I asked what is the most corrupt place on Earth, you might say it’s Afghanistan, maybe Greece, Nigeria, the south of Italy. I would say it is the UK. It’s not UK bureaucracy, police, or politics, but what is corrupt is the financial capital.”
The Monument To Fallen U.S. Soldiers Before They Actually Fall
“To many, a memorial with nearly half of its space reserved for upcoming conflicts is an eerie statement that such conflicts and casualties are an inevitable wave on the horizon.”
The Louvre’s Pyramid Has Disappeared
“JR, best known for mounting women’s portraits onto building facades in a Brazilian favela and his Inside Out global art project, had a specific idea in mind: to combat the selfie ‘phenomenon’ of tourists snapping themselves in front of the Louvre without really observing its architecture.”
Mashup: 57 Phrases From Famous Classical Pieces In A Six-Minute Video
Heresy, we know, but clever nonetheless.
Will The Geffen Hall Renovation At The Lincoln Center Ever Come To Pass?
“While officials have described the plan as likely to cost around $500 million, Ms. Farley said that the actual figure could be different. ‘It’s a number that passes the sanity test — it’s not a budget,’ she said. ‘You don’t know what it’s going to cost until you know what it is.'”