Bob Silvers doesn’t like to discuss what might happen to the NYRB after he steps down, saying only that there are “three or four brilliant editors who could run the review, and people who would make an exhilarating paper. They would do something probably different, in some way,” he muses. “We don’t know what they would do.”
Tag: 01.25.13
Do Cool Tech Giants Design Cool Homes For Themselves?
“This building (provisionally due to open in 2016) is, like the iPad, iPhone and others, a smooth, seamless and slick product rather than a piece of architecture.”
Can Benjamin Millepied Fit In At The Paris Opera Ballet?
“Millepied may be French, born in Bordeaux, but at 16 he left to study at the School of American Ballet and spent most of his dancing career with New York City Ballet – a company whose style and repertory are predicated on the stripped-down, very American modernism of George Balanchine.”
Top German Publisher Tearing Itself Up In Leadership Struggle
At Suhrkamp Verlag, which publishes Brecht and Hesse, Peter Handke and Isabel Allende, among many others, “rival shareholders are trying to expel each other and asking a court to dissolve their partnership” – and authors are taking sides.
Tate Britain To Quietly Get Rid Of Room Numbers (They’re Unfriendly)
Tate staff will continue to have their own “secret” numbers for the galleries, but these will not be marked in the rooms or on maps.
17th-Century Masterpiece Was Just Another Hotel Room Canvas In Paris
“The Hôtel Ritz Paris, famous for its bar, its swimming pool and its assignations, had a treasure hiding in plain sight, an exceptional painting that had been hanging on a wall for decades without anyone paying it the least attention.”
Dramaturgs, Theatre’s Personal Trainers
“As a trainer I can see where the artist or work of art is, I can look at the goals of said work (or artist) and I can help develop a plan to move closer to the goal.”
Zero Dark Thirty And Torture, Right And Wrong
“It’s a cautionary tale about how to talk about a feature film that uses reporting. Bigelow has called it a ‘reported film,’ thus a lot of observers–fairly or not–have held the movie to the standards of a piece of reporting, and no feature film can meet those standards.”
Defining The ‘American Sound’
“Here we don’t have hundreds of years of classic music sensibilities limiting creativity. In fact, it is beneficial if you create something popular. After all, America is a capitalist society.”
Is This (Sort Of) The Year Of The Female Director At Sundance?
Maybe, but those directors say “they are looking forward to a day when no one makes a big deal about how many women filmmakers there are at Sundance.”