“His hugely popular comic series Amar Chitra Katha, or Immortal Picture Stories, launched in 1967 with the goal of retelling stories from [Indian] mythology, still finds nearly three million buyers every year and is sold in 20 languages.”
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‘Delicious Movement’ – Eiko and Koma’s Cambodian Adventure
In four decades together, the Japanese-American dance artists have only created works for themselves to perform. Except, that is, for two pieces that have grown out of workshops in Phnom Penh in which they taught students “what they call their ‘Delicious Movement,’ a discipline meant to foster kinetic sensitivity.”
2,500 Years of Public Speaking Techniques
“The modern world has largely inherited the ancient view that oratory is a matter of technique. True, we do have a romantic notion that some people are ‘naturals’ at public speaking … But modern speech-writers always stress the importance of technique, and they advocate many of the same old tricks that the ancients used.”
Why Ed Ruscha Titled His Latest Series of Paintings ‘Psycho Spaghetti Westerns’
“I was faced with this thought of having to have a title, and that just came out of the sky. I thought, ‘How perfect for these paintings.’ There are no references to Italian movies from the ’60s here, although I do like those movies, but ‘Spaghetti Westerns’ says it all: tangled up messes like spaghetti, and we’re living out here in the West, and we’re all psycho.”
Christopher Wheeldon Finds Choreographing Alice ‘Terrifying’
“It’s quite terrifying, actually. Telling a story is where the challenge has lain for me. But I have always wondered what I can and can’t do as a choreographer. So I took this on partly out of curiosity.”
Columbus Symphony, Musicians, SIgn Up For Pay Raise
The orchestra and its musicians “have reached a new four-year contract restoring a portion of the wages lost since 2008, when a financial crisis spurred a five-month shutdown.”
Judge Orders New Look At Barnes Collection Move To Philly
“A Montgomery County judge has ordered a hearing that could reopen the case of the Barnes Foundation’s move from its home in Lower Merion Township to the Parkway in Philadelphia.”
Books In The Time Of Network Sharing
“How does the solitary writer attract attention in the age of mass culture? One answer is to mobilise the tools of mass culture and exploit social media.”
British Council Gets New Arts Director
“Former Barbican artistic director Graham Sheffield has been appointed the British Council’s new director for arts.”
NY Philharmonic Scores Home Runs In Fundraising
“Even as most arts organizations have struggled through a brutal few years for raising money, the New York Philharmonic not only has met its fund-raising-campaign goal of $50 million, but has nearly doubled that figure.”