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Author: ArtsJournal2
In Honor Of These Oscars, Let’s Look At All The Times The Academy Picked The Wrong Best Picture
“Let’s take a walk through the past four decades of Best Picture winners of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It’s an almost unbroken chain of incorrect decisions!”
Umberto Eco Taught The World To Think About Conspiracies And Fascism
“Suddenly Eco was back in my feed, being used to prove that one of the most notorious presidential candidates in US history was no worse than Mussolini or even Hitler.”
Just Another ‘Hamilton’ Award Post (Hint: More To Come)
“‘Hamilton,’ the hit Broadway show, which uses hip-hop and other contemporary musical styles to chronicle the life and death of Alexander Hamilton, seems tailor-made for the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History, which, as its name suggests, seeks to honor ‘a new play or musical that enlists theater’s power to explore the past of the United States.'”
San Bernardino Looks To Art For Some Healing
“Even before the news media descended, the city was bankrupt, a poster child for urban ills — the poorest city of its size in California and a haven for gang violence, drug addiction, foreclosures and political dysfunction. San Bernardino has long been known for nightmarish air pollution in which asthmatic children from low-income families breathe diesel fumes from cargo trains and trucks.”
Add Another Name To The Short List Of Great U.S. Ballet Choreographers
“As he sees it, you can never really know a ballet unless you’ve performed it. He is terrifically serious. Though he looks and moves like a teen-ager—he does uptalk, he has made a ballet for an iPad app—his demeanor is habitually grave.”
Harrowing Documentary About Refugee Crisis Wins At Berlin Film Festival
“It’s a daring hybrid of captured footage and deliberate storytelling that allows us to consider what documentary can do. It is urgent, imaginative and necessary filmmaking.”
The Translator Who Is Often Accused Of Being The (Mysterious) Author
“Just in case anyone was wondering if Goldstein is Ferrante, she’d like to clear that up right away: ‘No, I am not. I can say that without equivocation,’ she tells NPR’s Linda Wertheimer. ‘And I can also say I don’t know who she is.'”
Heck, Why Not Just Add A Third, Robotic Arm To Percussionists’ Shoulders?
“‘It’s a richer and more sophisticated rhythm because you can hit one more thing,’ said Gil Weinberg, director of the Center for Music Technology at Georgia Tech. The robotic arm is capable of hitting a drum up to 20 times per second, a rate that’s impossible for humans. And it never needs a break.”
The Artist Recreating The Sistine Chapel – In Mexico
“The Sistine Chapel has been partially reproduced around the world—in museums, as well as bars and restaurants. Mr. Macías says his work will be the only copy of all 33 panels that has been done in a church, which, by luck, has a ceiling nearly the same size and curvature of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.”