“For all the attention paid to the new televisions by both technology’s cheerleaders and skeptics, almost no one has asked the most important question: What psychological, emotional, social, and even neurological effects will these big-screen high-definition televisions have — especially on the development of children and adolescents?”
Tag: 04.10
The Terrors Of Translating Don Quixote
Edith Grossman: “There were the centuries of Cervantean scholarship, the specialized studies, the meticulous research … There were other translations into English – at least twenty, by someone’s count … Then there was the question of temporal distance, a chasm of four centuries separating me from Cervantes.”
NYC Theatre Company Borrows A Game Plan From Farming
Stolen Chair Theatre Company’s approach is modeled on a “Community Supported Agriculture program, in which, at the start of growing season, members pay a lump sum to farmers and then, throughout the summer, reap the harvested benefits.” Rather than buying produce, theatregoers pay a fee to fund the development of a play.
Experts Tussle Over ‘Recently Discovered’ Degas Casts
“[A] controversy is swirling among Degas experts the world over about 74 ‘recently discovered’ plaster casts of his sculptures that were purportedly made during his lifetime,” notably “a plaster cast of the Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans (Little Dancer Aged 14).” The unconvinced “have started mobilizing in opposition.”
Italian Renaissance Scholar: Met Canvas Is A Michelangelo
Everett Fahy, “who retired in March as John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” says “that Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness, a painting that was attributed to ‘the close circle of Francesco Granacci’ when the museum acquired it in 1970, is actually by Granacci’s good friend Michelangelo.”
Study: Scholars Are Self-Censoring Over Copyright
“A survey of communication scholars’ practices reveals that copyright ignorance and misunderstanding hamper distribution of finished work, derail work in progress, and most seriously, lead communication researchers simply to avoid certain kinds of research altogether.”
Alexei Ratmansky’s Bolshoi Ballet
“Well, one performance goes well, the next one you feel like nothing works. In general the idea what is the Bolshoi, even among the most conservative dancers and audiences, has changed a little bit. They saw that there is no harm to invite Westerners and do neo-classics, and even–omigod–some contemporary! It definitely brought up a new generation of dancers.”
Latin American Art – On The Cutting Edge Of History
“The promise, mystery, and challenge of colonial Latin American art are luring not only a growing number of graduate students but also veteran art historians who built their careers in European art.”
How On Earth Do We Find The Time For Opera?
Philip Kennicott: “You could go to Boston and back twice in the amount of time it takes to sit through the Ring cycle. And yet I don’t think of this as a particularly long time any more, at least not in the opera house. For some reason, in a world in which it’s hard to find thirty minutes for a hair cut or ten minutes to pay the electric bill, we always manage to find the hours for opera. Where does that time come from?”