“Surely, goes the reasonable argument, an architect’s job is to provide a building that works, meets its brief, and is on time and on budget. It’s hard to argue otherwise, except that this reasoning would have strangled at birth many of the world’s greatest and most popular buildings: the Palace of Westminster, St Pancras station, the Sydney Opera House, the Pompidou Centre, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, most of the work of Antoni Gaudi.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Lives Of Characters Who (Long) Outlast Their Creators
“The question for authors to consider in this brave new world of mimicry, both professional and otherwise, is to what extent they consider their characters to be theirs and theirs alone. For most, it isn’t something that will become an issue during their lifetime: Copyright law stipulates that books only enter the public domain 70 years after the death of the author, even if most fanfic writers aren’t limited in terms of what they can post online.”
A Protest Mural Gets Defaced
“Wylie Goodman recalls sitting in her Brooklyn home in August when she thought she heard gunfire outside. Actually, it was someone shooting paintballs at a 27-foot-tall mural she had allowed to be created on the side of the building she owns in Red Hook.”
The Paris Opera Opens With Glamour, Glitz, And New Artistic Directions
“Until now, the French haven’t really done galas in the focused way of American organizations. In a largely state-subsidized cultural system, fund-raising has not been an imperative and the cultivation of a circle of patrons has been discreet and elite.”
Writing A ‘Cover’ Of One Shakespeare Tale For The Modern Era, Video Games Included
“To write a cover version of a Shakespeare play is to stay true to the spirit of Shakespeare. As a dramatist he was less concerned with a fixed text that we are. He was a collaborator, an actor-playwright in a company dependent on patrons and box office sales. He knew how to riff on an idea.”
The Lion King Almost Ended In Gladiatorial Pits In Las Vegas
Julie Taymor “wanted to introduce a new villain named Papa Croc who had struck a deal with Scar, the villainous lion from the original story, to buy up all the water in the land. Papa Croc then funneled this water to create a desert oasis: Las Vegas.”
Why Jane Austen Never Goes Out Of Style
“Of all her contemporaries, Austen is the only one to have made it through with her best-seller status intact, and that’s not just because her girls meet her boys without any help from Tinder.”
Living Inside The Legendary Parisian Bookstore Shakespeare & Co.
“The Tumbleweeds sleep in beds that have been placed throughout the bookshop — next to the piano, above the Mirror of Love — and there are generally around four people living in the bookstore at a time. One of George’s rules that still remains is that all Tumbles must read a book a day. (They also help open and close the shop, work for two hours a day, and help out with the weekly readings.)”
Saving Ancient Books Rediscovered In Italy After The Library Was Closed For A Century
“‘One of the bottom shelves was full of black slime,’ she recalled. ‘You couldn’t recognise that they were books and many were lost.'”
Shakespeare Fest Commissions New ‘Translations’ Of The Bard – Into Contemporary English
“We can piece these meanings together, of course, by reading the play and consulting stacks of footnotes. But Shakespeare didn’t intend for us to do that. He wrote plays for performance. We’re supposed to be able to hear and understand what’s spoken on the stage, in real time.”