“How big a role did she play in reconceiving the story from a dark tale of a young woman’s disillusionment with her father’s racist views, to a redemptive one of moral courage and human decency? And, for that matter, how would Ms. Hohoff have felt about the decision, more than a half-century later, to publish a prototype of ‘Mockingbird’?”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Making The Contemporary Art World Less Hip, By Design
“‘The language I use, the way I try to talk about things, is always with that in mind,’ the Vancouverite says during a phone interview. ‘It’s something my mom can enjoy, or people I grew up playing hockey with can enjoy.'”
The Pittsburgh Symphony Is Fighting A Pretty Darn Scary Drop In Attendance
“After raising ticket prices for two consecutive seasons, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has seen its 2014-15 sales for Mellon Grand Classics drop from 61 percent of Heinz Hall capacity to 50 percent. The Pops series dropped from 62 to 56 percent.”
Now They’re Gonna Make A Musical About The Woman Who Said, ‘Where’s The Beef?’
“Says Necheles, ‘This is a musical based on the exploration of what it means to be famous and how people react to that fame.’
Says Shell: ‘In essence it focuses on a person I believe to have been the first reality TV star, a regular person who became famous basically by being herself.'”
Google Started Mapping Networks, And Ended Up With Gorgeous, Bizarre Pop-Flavored Art
“‘Two weeks ago we blogged about a visualization tool designed to help us understand how neural networks work and what each layer has learned,’ Google writes. ‘In addition to gaining some insight on how these networks carry out classification tasks, we found that this process also generated some beautiful art.'”
Chouette! Fantastisch! Bravo! Translators Now Eligible For Man Booker Prize
“‘A poor translation will kill even the most beautifully written, imaginative book,’ said Fiammetta Rocco, administrator of the prize.”
Web 2.0 Doesn’t Work, And Here’s A Demonstration Of Why
“The Web 2.0 dream has always been to outsource all of the hard jobs to your users—that unpaid enthusiasts will do all the work of creating your content, curating your content, and promoting your content out of love, and all you have to do is pay some techies to keep the lights on.”
After 40 Years Of Fame, An Artist Finally Gets A Solo Show At Home
Marcia Hafif, now 86, “speaks softly and moves gracefully. But the unassuming manner belies a bold adventurousness. A discussion about painting might segue nonchalantly to talk about ‘a little affair’ in Mexico, her journeys through Iran or her larger-than-life Circassian great-grandfather, who fought against the French in Mexico in the late 19th century.”
Why There’s So Much Nostalgia For The Lost TV Of One’s Youth (And Why It’s Better To Let Those Shows Go)
“Our nostalgia is greedy. It’s not enough to look back fondly on the past; now we are rebooting it. Our nostalgia compels us to go beyond rewatching dusty old VCR tapes, to actually wanting fleeting childhood obsessions to be revived and re-enacted to fit our own times.”
It’s OK To Write What You Don’t Know, As Long As You Ask For Help
“Weeks of work followed. I emailed questions and studied the answers. The key wasn’t simply to load in science. My average reader would be as confused as I by long passages about RNA and antigenic drift. But fiction demands a certain specificity. Cliches – like a virus ‘going airborne’ – had to go.”