“If music was invented to restore our emotional and psychological equilibrium, Music for 18 Musicians is one of the great pieces of music ever composed.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Photo Whose Existence Is A Powder Keg For Arguments About Confederate Memorials
“The image has helped bolster the claims of the community of amateur historians, hucksters, and Confederate sympathizers committed to defending the Confederacy from the charge of racism, who insist that thousands of black men fought and died for the rebel cause.”
We’re All Feeding Facebook’s Giant, Sucking Content Hole
“It’s tough to be creative every day when your life is fundamentally ordinary. It’s tiring. And, since most writers toil in relative isolation, it’s anything but social.”
Is Theatre About The Working Class, But Made For The Middle Class, Always ‘Poverty Porn’?
“It can be troubling to sit in an expensive theatre seat – that might cost close to what some people live on for an entire week – and watch actors portray the less fortunate.”
Will TV ‘Pay For Play’ Casting Workshops Actually Change?
“The idea of a committee to explore ways to stop the abuse is a good one – but means nothing if there’s no way to enforce anything that comes out of the committee.”
For The First Time, The British Get A Series That Streams Before It Broadcasts On Regular TV
“We have to recognise that young people don’t watch TV the way we did. … It’s very much in the spirit of New Blood that the show will premiere on iPlayer.”
How Being Cool Has Ruined Berlin
“Somebody must have written about my street on their viral travel blog. Now I had the whole world at my doorstep; I just didn’t have Berlin anymore.”
The Other Mapplethorpe’s Oeuvre Is Slightly Different
“Edward could have chosen a profession that wouldn’t engender comparisons, but he believed, in a lapsed Catholic sort of way, that he was destined to get to know his brother through a shared vocation.”
How The Author Of Wolf Hall Actually Gets Her Writing Done
“I used to be a late starter, but now I get up in the dark like a medieval monk, commit unmediated scribble to a notebook, and go back to bed about six, hoping to sleep for another two hours and to wake slowly and in silence. Random noise, voices in other rooms, get me off to a savage, disorderly start, but if I am left in peace to reach for a pen, I feel through my fingertips what sort of day it is.”
Portrait Of The 100-Year-Old, Still Working Artist
“Her age and lack of mobility — she no longer gets out of the house regularly and has live-in round-the-clock care — have forced a series of adjustments to her work habits. Far from undermining her project, however, these concessions have served to highlight the conceptual nature of her work.”