“‘The British spy eavesdropping station GCHQ rang me up and said ‘we’ve detected an early copy of this book on the Internet’,’ Newton told Australia’s ABC Radio in an interview.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
We Need To Stop Trying To Deny Our Brutalist History
“The term brutalism borrows from the French béton brut, or raw concrete. Depending on who you consult, those surfaces represent honesty, technological innovation or sheer newness: as the critic Reyner Banham wrote, ‘a radicalism that owes nothing to precedent.'”
Technology Might Just Kill ‘Literary’ Novels
“Before we conjecture anything about this future, we need a way to conceive of the momentum that is affecting everything, most especially our interactions with others: our communications.”
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Weekend Extra No. 2: Just Because
The Charles Lloyd Quartet having a good day in Europe 50 years ago. Listen for the Stravinsky quote at 1:46. Charles Lloyd, tenor saxophone; Keith Jarrett, piano; Cecil McBee, bass; Jack DeJohnette, drums. From Radio… … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2016-04-10
Meeting the Hangman
By Heathcote Williams I used to speak out against capital punishment From a soapbox at Speakers’ Corner. This was when it was thought that hanging people Was helpful in maintaining order. One day someone called… … read more
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2016-04-10
Weekend Extra: Borrowed From Bill Crow
Bill Crow has played bass with several of of the world’s leading jazz artists, Stan Getz, Art Farmer, Marian McPartland and Gerry Mulligan among them. A terrific writer, he has developed a sidebar career as… … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2016-04-08
A new home for a great company
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review two important out-of-town revivals, Writers Theatre’s Arcadia and Repstage’s Hunting and Gathering. Here’s an excerpt. * * * The best regional drama company in America now… … read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2016-04-08
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2016-04-08
Almanac: Shakespeare on the big-lie technique
“He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.” William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well… read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2016-04-08
“He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.” William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well… read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2016-04-08
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The Pritzker Prize Winner Gives Us A New Blueprint For Cities
“The most significant project, as the one most likely to justify the Pritzker committee’s hope that Aravena is offering new ways forward, is his role in the reconstruction of the Chilean city of Constitución after the earthquake and tsunami of 2010.”
How Do TV Shows Destroy Themselves?
This deconstruction of Sleepy Hollow’s fast descent could be a primer for what other TV shows should avoid.
The United States’ Great State Universities Are Being Pillaged And Dismantled
“Between 2008 and 2013 states reduced financial support to top public research universities by close to 30 percent. At the same time, these states increased support of prisons by more than 130 percent.”
Can The San Antonio Symphony Save Itself?
“David Gross is the President of the San Antonio Symphony, and he says the problem isn’t a new one. The deficit has been growing since 2008. Fundraising, ticket sales and grants just haven’t paid the bills and Gross says he asked everyone involved to help find a solution.”
The Other Problem With Gay Talese
“The 84-year-old journalist ventured out to Boston University last week, and made a series of simultaneously inane and offensive comments about female writers. Since that time, Talese has been the unsurprising object of mockery and scorn on Twitter and elsewhere. But within the same week, to less fanfare, Talese revealed an even darker side of himself via a massively long piece in the current issue of the New Yorker, titled ‘The Voyeur’s Motel.'”
No One Living Has Ever Heard The Most Famous Violin In The World
“The violin world is a world based on lineage, secrecy, and the ‘war’ between authenticity and deception inside an elite group. It consists of a cloister of craftspeople, dealers, and ‘experts’ passing very specific knowledge down to the very few willing to take the time to learn this time-intensive skill that for centuries has been based on copying old fiddles.”