The trend, which started when the series gained popularity in 2011, hasn’t really slowed. (And many, many babies from 2017 were named Leia to honor Carrie Fisher.)
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Artist Silences Her Show In Reaction To Firing Of Museum Director
At Cal State Long Beach, where the museum just fired director Kimberli Myer, artist lauren wood wasn’t having it. “It was something I felt I had to do. … I don’t want anyone to misconstrue that I’m putting myself at the center of the work, or Kimberli at the center, but without her leadership, I can’t do the work. The university could have made a different choice.”
Why Are Books So Long Right Now?
Let’s be clear: Long books are fine. Long-winded books? Not so much. (Still, the Booker Prize judges have rather a lot to read.)
Tennessee Williams, Painter
Once the playwright started to really make it, he bought a house in Key West, and – along with writing plays – he painted. “Throughout the 1970s, tourists walked past the house, where he sold paintings — sometimes not yet dry — over his fence. More than once, he arrived at a dinner with a fresh canvas under his arm as a gift.”
Audiobooks Are Booming… And Likely To Continue Thriving
This decade’s double-digit annual growth — with total sales doubling to $2.5 billon over the past five years — has a clear analog in the e-book boom that preceded it, and the same company has driven it: Audible.com owner Amazon.
Social Media New? Nope – We’ve Had A Sharing Culture Forever
Long before mobile phones or even photography, diaries were kept as a way to understand oneself and the world one inhabits. In the 18th and 19th centuries, as secular diaries became more popular, middle-class New Englanders, particularly white women, wrote about their everyday lives and the world around them. These diaries were not a place into which they poured their innermost thoughts and desires, but rather a place to chronicle the social world around them – what’s going on around the house, what they did today, who came to visit, who was born or who died.
The Atlanta Symphony’s Turnaround
“I would describe us now as being in a relatively stable space but also a very creative space, where we have good relationships, a good contract in place, good operations and we’re in the midst of a strategic planning process that will help us drive the direction for the next five years.”
Meet The LA Philharmonic’s New Chief
“The challenge is to find an integrated approach that enlarges the number of people who are in our orbit,” he says. “As demographics change and people become more distracted, the notion of how you create compelling experiences on stage and how you build vast community around them is, I think, the next frontier. I don’t think we fully know how to do that yet.”
Almost $10 Billion In New Cultural Facilities Opened Worldwide Last Year
New buildings including Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town and the Guardian Art Center in Beijing, for example, incorporate hotels, event spaces, and other uses, a reflection of the fact that arts infrastructure “has come to play an important part in the experiential economy.”
Check Out The Weird And Wonderful Tradition Of Albanian Polyphonic Singing
“Set against a backdrop of the dreamy mountains of Labëria in southern Albania, Washed by the Moon, British/German filmmaker Dan Shutt’s directorial debut, is a rich journey through the region’s musical history. … We invited the director to compile a mix that encapsulates the ancient Albanian tradition of isopolyphonic singing.”