Waleed Aly: “This week happened because a deep anxiety about the health of our society was triggered. A vein was opened, but it was the build-up of ages that came gushing forth. The notion of public space is at the very heart of this.”
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Big-House Grand Opera In The U.S. May Be Doomed: Terry Teachout
“Alas, it’s hard for me to see how the Met can realistically hope to reinvent itself other than by razing its superannuated theater and starting from scratch. Nor am I sanguine about the long-term prospects for, say, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, whose home is the 3,563-seat Civic Opera House and which was just shut down by an orchestra strike, or the San Francisco Opera, which performs in the 3,126-seat War Memorial Opera House. (The Vienna State Opera House, by way of comparison, has 2,220 seats.)”
42 Dutch Museums Have Discovered 170 Artworks That Were Stolen By The Nazis
A nationwide audit of 163 major collections has led to the identification of “83 paintings, 26 drawings and 13 Jewish ritual objects [as well as miscellaneous works] believed to have been taken from their owners between 1933 and 1945.”
Jersey City Is Getting A New Performing Arts Center
Located in “the sixth borough” (and the one that gets the least respect), across the Hudson from Lower Manhattan, “the Nimbus Arts Center at the Lively will feature a 150-seat black box theater, studio and rehearsal space for [Nimbus Dance Works] and [its] school, and company administrative offices. The arts facility, which is expected to open in December 2019, will reside on the ground floors of the building, with apartments above.”
2018 Stirling Prize Goes To Norman Foster’s Bloomberg HQ In London
“One of the most environmentally friendly office buildings ever conceived has been named the winner of the 2018 Stirling prize, beating off competition from a quirky brick nursery, a mud-walled cemetery and the extension of the Tate St Ives gallery.”
Commercial Theatre Is ‘Anti-Art, Anti-Theatre, Anti-Creativity, Anti-Audience,’ Says One Of London’s Top Commercial Producers
“… And so I like to think of myself as an independent producer as opposed to a commercial producer,” says Sonia Friedman, who was spoiled by her time working “in the subsidised sector” (at the National Theatre).
Chicago’s Storefront Theatre Revolution
For a New Yorker, the real surprise was to be found in the far-flung spaces — like the Den — that make up Chicago’s “storefront” theater movement. Especially in the northern part of the city, these theaters have colonized churches and renovated restaurants and turned showrooms into show rooms. Some house an audience of hundreds, some just a handful.
We’re Reading More, But Is It Junk? Distraction?
The average person “consumes about 34 gigabytes across varied devices each day” — some 100,000 words’ worth of information. “Neither deep reading nor deep thinking can be enhanced by the aptly named ‘chopblock’ of time we are all experiencing, or by 34 gigabytes of anything per day,” Maryanne Wolf argues.
Lessons From The Academic Journal Scam – A System Working Or A Cautionary Tale?
Does the hoax identify something uniquely rotten in gender and sexuality studies, or could it just as easily have targeted other fields? Is it a salutary correction or a reactionary hit job? And what does it portend for already imperiled fields? The Chronicle Review asked scholars from a variety of disciplines.
The 27-Year-Old Continuing Cremona’s Centuries-Old Craft Of Violin-Making
He prides himself in understanding all the technical processes which go into creating a great violin and he makes around 8 a year. He even knows the whereabouts of most of his instruments and gets to see them from time to time as the musicians who commissioned them often become friends.