There’s a lot to remember, a lot that the Machine Project inspired. “Machine Project leaves behind a vibrant legacy. Over its existence, the organization collaborated with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on a series of strange-funny performances, and it once organized an architectural tour of L.A. led by artist Cliff Hengst channeling the ghost of Whitney Houston. ‘It was this heavily researched architecture tour,’ says Allen. ‘But it was also this heavily researched story about Whitney Houston.'”
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Bel Canto Star Lawrence Brownlee Commissioned A New Song Cycle To Fit Modern Reality
The winner of 2017’s male singer of the year at the International Opera awards says, “You can’t blind-cast with opera. No one has ever turned me down for a part and said ‘Because he’s black’ or even ‘Because he’s small and black!’ but there’s a code I’ve come to understand – ‘We have a different idea for the role’ is a common one. Change is slow, across the classical world.”
The Latest ‘Black Mirror’ Explains Just How Toxic Pop Culture Fandom Can Be
As it lovingly sends up Star Trek, the show also shows viewers “what emerges as a core theme of the episode: When you become a toxic fan, you become the villain of your favorite shows, games or comics, instead of the hero.”
Honey, Hollywood Shrank The … Everything, And Here’s How [VIDEO]
There’s a long history of movie magic, thought it’s gotten easier in recent years with green screens. But “ever since Pretorius put ballerinas and kings behind glass in Bride of Frankenstein in 1935, filmmakers have used many different methods to make people appear small onscreen.”
Harvey Weinstein Sued For Spying On Actress Who Says He Raped Her
This is complex, but stick with the story of one lawyer suing another lawyer, and Weinstein, in order to kick a D.A.’s investigation back into full gear: “Filler told Variety that he brought the suit in part to determine why the Manhattan D.A.’s probe of de la Huerta’s rape allegations appears to have stalled. ‘Our purpose is to investigate what caused the N.Y. D.A. criminal investigation and criminal prosecution to stall, and to call TWC/HW to account if they used extra-legal means as we believe they did,’ Filler said.”
A Burnt 1600-Year-Old Text Gets An X-Ray, And New Life
The codex was written between 400 and 600 AD, in southern Egypt. “The charred codex was purchased by the Morgan Library in 1962. But no one has opened it for fear of destroying it: The brittle pages have been fused together by a cinder that sank through much of the book, congealing the parchment fibers. Unlike famous codices that have their own names, like the Codex Sinaiticus, this one is known humbly as M.910.”
Bringing Anna Deavere Smith’s Eerily Contemporary Play About Rodney King To Britain, More Than 20 Years Later
The play’s director says: ““It’s shocking how cyclical it all is. … The same problems that existed 25 years ago still exist. And that is down to a lack of platform for a diverse range of voices. Not having that platform means we can’t have the right discussions.”
In 2017, All Three Top-Grossing Hollywood Films Were Led By Women
Interesting, in the year of the Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement. “You could argue that in a year when powerful men were named and shamed, it is fitting that powerful women are to the fore. Maybe it is a coincidence, not least when you consider how long it takes for a film to be made. But bear in mind, the last time the top three films were fronted by women was back in 1958.”
Betty Woodman, Who Turned Pottery Into A Multimedia Art Practice, Has Died At 87
Woodman bucked trends in high school and beyond. She was the first women artist to be alive when she got a retrospective at the Met in 2006. Art critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote at the time, “At the age of 76, she is beyond original, all the way to sui generis.”
Could ‘Moby Dick’ Help Get Humans To Mars?
OK, sure, why not? “The parallels between the whaling industry and deep human spaceflight are striking. Voyages to the South Seas usually lasted between two and four years, mirroring almost exactly the timeframes associated with a roundtrip journey to Mars. Whalers worked in confined conditions aboard their floating factories, often going months at a time without setting foot on land, prefiguring the cramped space capsules being considered for Mars missions.”