The four-episode adaptation by Kenneth Lonergan of E.M. Forster’s novel has drawn plaudits from critics and high viewership, but many viewers have complained that the “most intrusive and dominating” music (as one irate Twitterer put it) frequently drowns out the dialogue. This seems to be a sound mixing problem rather than a musical one, and it evidently is not a new one for the network.
Blog
Two Journalists Covering Louvre Abu Dhabi Arrested And Held For Two Days Over Their Coverage
A reporter and cameraman for the Swiss public broadcaster RTS say they were arrested while taking images at an open-air market of migrant workers like those who built the museum. The pair were separated, blindfolded, and interrogated for up to ten hours at a time about the nature of their reporting on the migrants; their equipment was confiscated and has still not been returned.
Author Faces Criminal Charges For Exposé Of South Africa’s President
Jacques Pauw’s The President’s Keepers, an account of corruption, coercion and violence at the heart of Jacob Zuma’s administration, has become the fastest-selling book in South Africa since Nielsen began tracking sales there – thanks in no small part to the government’s Streisand-Effect attempts to suppress the book. Now the country’s State Security Agency has reportedly filed criminal complaints against Pauw for “unlawful publication of classified information.”
Old Vic CEO Says She Knew Nothing About Kevin Spacey Allegations
Sally Greene, who hired Spacey as the theatre’s artistic director, “said it made her ‘sick to the stomach’ to think people may have suffered harassment or abuse [there]. The theatre is facing questions about how much was known among management and trustees about Spacey’s alleged behaviour during his 11 years in charge. Former employees have described it as an open secret.
Adam Driver’s Arts In The Armed Forces Nonprofit Launches Award For Military Playwright
“The organization announced the inaugural Bridge Award on Monday, granting $10,000 to a playwright who has served in the military for the production of a new play.” This year’s judge: Suzan-Lori Parks.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.13.17
Long Overdue: Women Artists In 19th Century Paris
The exhibition entitled Her Paris: Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism, which debuted recently at the Denver Art Museum, is long overdue. It has been ten years in the making, the brainchild of independent … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-11-12
Cool Heat
Garth Fagan Dance comes from Rochester to the Joyce Theater, November 7 through 12. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2017-11-12
Why Economists Need The Humanities
Like old-style imperialists, economists assume that other people resemble themselves, regardless of their culture, class or background. Thus, they assume that other people will respond in ways that economists consider rational. They subscribe to the fallacy of an abstract “economic man” — “precultural” person. But, the authors write, people are not organisms first created “and then dipped in some culture, like Achilles in the River Styx. They are cultural from the outset.”
Welcome To This Year’s Art Auction Giga-Week
Impressionist, modern and contemporary art with an estimated value of least $1.6 billion will be offered at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips. The value of these consignments, which include works by Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Fernand Leger and Franz Kline, as well as, incongruously, a Ferrari racecar, represents an increase of more than 46 percent over the equivalent auctions last November.
How Did A Valuable Stolen de Kooning End Up In Somebody’s Bedroom?
In 1985, Woman-Ochre was stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art during opening hours. Thirty-two years later, the $165-million masterpiece wasn’t discovered tucked away in the mansion of a mafioso or for sale on the black market; it was found hanging demurely behind the bedroom door of an elderly couple in rural New Mexico.
How Josephine Baker Spied On The Nazis
“Baker flitted back and forth between Casablanca and Lisbon, Seville, Madrid, and Barcelona. Between performances, she accepted invitations to parties and embassy functions, where she hobnobbed with the elite and diplomats. And as she bantered over champagne and twirled around the dance floor, she continued her intelligence gathering.”