“Mahler said his time would come; the question now, for me, is when it will go. For the symphonies, up until the last, are all flawed, in different ways, but primarily because they peddle sentimentality as courage, heroism, defiance and piety.”
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Several Of America’s Most Important Performing Arts Curating Jobs Are Open. But Where Are The New Leaders?
Why is there any shortage of completely qualified, visionary American talent? Simply put: they haven’t been given the opportunity to prepare themselves for these demanding jobs.
Meet The New Head Of US Artists: Who Is Art For And What Can It Do?
“What does it mean to raise money for individual artists at a time when our largest governing body says that thing has no value whatsoever? For me, the main goal is to make the organization sustainable. I want to know that if the NEA is cut today, tomorrow, 10 years from now, 15 years from now, that United States Artists can still be here, still doing the same work.”
Snapshot: Who Designs And Directs In America’s Theatres, By Gender
Porsche McGovern’s data project tracks the gender of designers, directors, and artistic directors at the League of Resident Theatre members.
Why “Smart” Cities Aren’t Just About Tech
Jason Schupbach: “I think what tech misses a lot is the culture of place. One of the biggest problems that happens in city development is that people are saying you can use the same solution everywhere without really understanding how a society works or what the culture of a place is. Just slap on this tech thing and it’ll just work, everybody will adopt it, why not, it’s awesome. So I feel like one of the things that creative placemaking can do really well, or that an artist can do really well, is to help be that bridge between the community and the tech company, or whoever’s trying to come in and do something.”
Do University Teaching Jobs Stunt Writers?
“Even in Britain, whose elite universities were once home to elbow-patched, tweed-jacketed writers never burdened with the expectation of production — E. M. Forster famously spent more than two decades as an honorary fellow at King’s College, Cambridge, without ever publishing another novel — technocratic administrators have managed to extend their control over writers to a dispiriting degree.”
NRA Puts Millennium Park, Disney Hall In Ad Against The “Bad Guys”
At this point, we’re only 14 seconds in and it’s immediately clear who “they” is meant to refer to: urbanites, writers and artists, which is to say also the foreign-born, the gay, the nonwhite, the Jewish, the Muslim. The nonbelievers. The pacifists on the Pacific.
Jane Austen Had The Best Words
There’s a reason her work has thrived since it was published. “Her novels, reasonably successful in their day, were innovative, even revolutionary, in ways her contemporaries did not fully recognize. Some of the techniques she introduced — or used more effectively than anyone before — have been so incorporated into how we think about fiction that they seem to have always been there.” Also, ask the data!
One Literary Manager Says There Are Plenty Of (White) Women Writing Plays, But Where Are The Playwrights Of Color?
The literary manager of London’s Royal Court Theatre: “Diversity [in terms of] men and women has improved so drastically during my time working in theatre it is almost laughable.” But he’d also like to see more BAME – Black, Asian, and minority ethnic – playwrights being produced in his theatre and elsewhere.
What Did Beethoven’s Ninth Mean To World Leaders, And The U.S. President, At The G20 Summit?
Music actually isn’t universal – or at least its meanings aren’t. “Beethoven’s Ninth is an especially slippery reference point, and may have triggered very different associations among guests at the summit. The message Ms. Merkel probably intended to send — promoting a culture of tolerance and brotherhood — may have been garbled.”