“Ghost names on the marquee could include everyone from Joan Rivers, who died last year, to George Carlin, Bob Hope, Rodney Dangerfield and Milton Berle.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Weird, Great Story Of The Penny Black Stamp And The Beginning Of Mail
“Along with the fine border work and stars in the corners, the Penny Black didn’t feature the name of the country: Victoria was synonymous with the nation at this point. Instead, the word ‘Postage’ differentiated it from the revenue stamps that had been used for decades. Both that and the price, One Penny, were printed on the stamp.”
Tips On Creativity And Work From A Performance Artist, Including The One About Doing Drugs
“Drugs, drinking, dancing and dating helped me shed decades, after acting middle-aged for so long. In addition to losing years off my life, I no longer had the need for a large studio space. I felt lucky, portable and adaptable.”
The Love Affair Of Scientists And The Lord Of The Rings
“Paleontologists named a 900-pound ancient crocodile Anthracosuchus balrogus, after the Balrog, a giant whip-wielding fire monster from The Lord of the Rings. There is also a dinosaur named after Sauron, which seems kinda harsh.”
Art Museums: Intimidating To Racial Minorities? Literal ‘White Spaces’?
First Lady Michelle Obama at the opening of the new Whitney Museum: “There are so many kids in this country who look at places like museums and concert halls and other cultural centers and they think to themselves, well, that’s not a place for me, for someone who looks like me, for someone who comes from my neighborhood.”
The Newest Ballet School Drama Doesn’t Promise Much That’s, Well, New
“The trailer includes a flash of Sascha Redetsky (of Center Stage fame), chair throwing, and hyper-charged (and entirely cheesy) lines like, ‘I can’t do anything with some frigid small town virgin!'”
The Most Successful Literary Couple In The U.S.
“The emergence of street lit is one of the big stories in recent American publishing, a juggernaut that has generated huge sales by catering to a readership — young, black and, for the most part, female — that historically has been ill-served by the book business. But the genre is also widely maligned.”
The Urban Planner Artist Who Wants To Revitalize Without Gentrifying
“Artists have long been a useful tool for developers; since the 80s the conventional way of ‘waking up’ destitute urban areas has been to rent out cheap studio space to art students and watch the creativity and the café culture follow, before the loft apartments are sold on to the bonus-rich with authentic artisanal grit priced in. Gates wanted to change that cynical paradigm.”
The Newest Hot Literary Journal Is … United Airlines’ In-Flight Magazine?
“As airlines try to distinguish their high-end service with luxuries like private sleeping chambers, showers, butler service and meals from five-star chefs, United Airlines is offering a loftier, more cerebral amenity to its first-class and business-class passengers: elegant prose by prominent novelists.”
Curators Are Cool Now, But How The Heck Did *That* Happen? [VIDEO]
“It’s a very important and defining aspect of who we are now,” says the author of a book on how everyone is now a (cool) curator.