“The prison colony also listed a penalty that Tolokonnikova received for failing to say hello to a prison official while she was in the hospital and noted that she was once reprimanded for her refusal to go out for a walk while she was held in a Moscow jail.”
Tag: 04.26.13
Why Not Bring City Opera Back Home (To City Center)?
“It felt like a homecoming to see the company on the City Center stage. The renovated City Center is now much more inviting and comfortable. And whatever they did to that theater improved the acoustics.”
Bronzes From A Palace Looted By France And Britain Will Return To China
“What might seem a rather obscure gesture of returning a pair of bronze animal heads takes on outsized significance as a kind of restitution of historical justice, a long-awaited righting of wrongs to the Chinese nation.”
Making Sweet Music From The Stench Of A Landfill
“Gómez travels three times a week to Cateura to dig out material. He shapes the metal oven trays with an electric saw to form the body of a violin and engineers cellos from oil barrels. The necks of his string instruments are sculpted from old strips of wood, called palé.”
Shaking Up The Oscars Voters With A LIttle (Just A Little) Diversity
“Change has been difficult, they have said, because the film industry is not very diverse in the first place, and slow because the academy has been limiting membership growth for the last decade.”
TV Is Hot (And That’s Why People Are Talking About It)
“Everywhere you go it seems as if all anyone wants to talk about is TV. Watching the boob tube used to be the couch potato’s hobby, hardly a subject to trot out over cocktails. Now, that stigma has vanished, and a few knowing remarks about “House of Cards” can confer gravitas.”
New Things We’re Learning About Van Gogh
“There has never been such extensive research into van Gogh’s paintings and drawings.”
Theatre’s Subscription Ticket Model Is Dying. Now What?
“Modernize the subscription model? Or scrap it altogether and try something completely different? If I knew, I’d start a theater company. But I do know that if regional theater wants to save its soul, it’ll have to find new ways to sell tickets.”
Making A Living As A Musician – In People’s Houses
House concerts are becoming an integral feature of many artists’ tours, filling in “dead” dates or just securing a guaranteed pay day without worrying about overheads and venue “cuts” of the takings.
Arts Should Be More Commercial? Really?
“This idea that culture should be measured in economic terms is not just crass and wrong, but also dangerous. Culture is not about making money, it’s about creating, maintaining and commenting on that great work of humanity: civilisation.”