“The main question no one wants to ask but everyone wants answered is quite simple: How are you supporting yourself? Is there a husband? A day job? A trust fund? If you write literary fiction, do you teach? If you’re in your 20s, do your parents pay your rent?”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Can ‘Pirates Of Penzance’ Save The English National Opera?
“Artistic director John Berry is far from the first ENO captain to face the prospect of budgetary collapse – it has always been next to impossible to balance the costs of the huge auditorium with the funding requirement to produce risk-taking, accessibly priced work.”
The Dance World Is Suffering From A Shortage Of Tutu Makers (For Real)
“Many opera and ballet companies employ stitchers on a freelance basis, making it an unattractive career choice for fashion graduates. And unlike general tailoring, which leading fashion houses now outsource to China, tutu-making is so specialised that it can’t be done on the cheap on the other side of the world.”
The Guy Who Became The Most Famous Musician In Children’s Music
“Polisar went home and wrote a song about a mean teacher. Then teachers at other schools heard about the mean teacher song and asked him to come sing it. Then he wrote some more songs. Then more schools called. And so it went, until he had enough music to make two albums by the time he graduated and enough gigs to forget about teaching and try music for a living.”
That Time An Artist Published Pictures Of Her Children, And The NYT Almost Destroyed Her
“In my arrogance and certitude that everyone must see the work as I did, I left myself wide open to journalism’s greatest hazard: quotations lacking context or the sense of irony or self-deprecating humor with which they were delivered.”
Remember Q, The CBC Program That Used To Star Jian Ghomeshi? It’s Been Rebranded As q
Marketing expert: “Personally, I think that that’s probably not enough of an effort.”
Kenneth Branagh Sets Up New Theatre Company With Judi Dench, Lily James, Rob Brydon
Also, the guy who plays Robb Stark on Game of Thrones. “The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company will take up residency at London’s Garrick Theatre for a year in October. The Cinderella director said he wanted ‘to have a creative home where you could do a programme of work, rather than just one-offs'”
Eduardo Galeano, Who Inspired Latin American Leftists Through His Writing, Has Died At 74
“His best known book, ‘The Open Veins of Latin America,; published in 1971, described the historical legacy of the Spanish colonial era and capitalist plunder that followed it. He spurned conventional narrative in favor of anecdotes highlighting, among others, enslaved indigenous Bolivian miners, devastated Brazilian rain forests and polluted Venezuelan oil fields.”
Ivan Doig, A Writer Who Cared About Getting Every Word Right
Doig, who died in Seattle on April 9 at age 75: “I don’t think of myself as a ‘Western’ writer. … To me, language — the substance on the page, that poetry under the prose — is the ultimate ‘region,’ the true home, for a writer.”
Unschooling, Or Something Like It, Makes A Return To U.S. High Schools
“Now, teachers function more as coaches than lecturers and the students are active collaborators. Initially limited to the high school, the framework is now being phased in at the middle school, too. And while the extended-learning program, now five years old, predates the student-centered initiative, officials say it has been key to the turnaround.”