And, she says, it’s time to stop seeing playwrights as god. Morgan Lloyd Malcolm: “What I enjoy more as a creator is to be in a room with a bunch of people working it out together. … We need to think of a new structure for how we create things.” – The Stage (UK)
Tag: 05.17.19
Elena Ferrante: Storytelling Has Been Wrested From Men, And Its Power Now Rests In Women’s Hands
Ferrante: “I chose to write out of a fear of handling more concrete and dangerous forms of power. And also perhaps out of a strong feeling of alienation from the techniques of domination, so that at times writing seemed to be the most congenial way for me to react to abuses of power.” – The New York Times
The Fruits Of Alexei Ratmansky’s 10-Year Partnership With American Ballet Theater
Ratmansky has been with ABT longer than anywhere else – and it shows. “By now, some Ballet Theater dancers have spent their entire careers performing his dances; the famously difficult choreography has shaped their technique and stage personas.” – The New York Times
Thomas Nozkowski, Who Changed The Course Of Abstract Art, Has Died At 75
Nozkowski’s “small, insistent, richly hued abstractions upended the heroic scale of postwar New York art and helped push painting in a more accessible, personal and wryly self-aware direction.” – The New York Times
Reaching out with love
It’s time to stop being angry about classical music’s place in the world, and move toward acceptance. – Greg Sandow
As U.S. States Strive To Make Abortion Illegal, Romance Novelists Pledge To Write About It
Why? Because of some not so great romance novel tropes. Novelist Liz Lincoln: “We need to start putting abortion in our books. … As an alternative to marrying virtual strangers after a surprise pregnancy. As a part of character backstory. As a thing lots of people experience. … It needs to be as regular in books as characters with dead parents or green eyes. As a normal part of life, not as a moral lesson where women are then punished for their choice.” – The Guardian (UK)
Knopf Fires A Longtime, Famous Editor Of Raymond Carver, Annie Dillard, And More
Longtime editor Gary Fisketjon, founder of Vintage Contemporary and a vice-president at the company, was asked to leave after a suspension and an investigation because of “a breach of company policy,” the company said. – The New York Times
Machiko Kyo, Star Of ‘Rashomon’ And Many Other Films, Has Died At 95
Kyo was discovered by a film scout in 1949 while she was performing in a dance revue. She worked with Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Teinosuke Kinugasa, and she continued to act until about 20 years ago. Kurosawa once said “he had been ‘left speechless’ by Ms. Kyo’s dedication to learning her craft.” – The New York Times
Google Has Been Tracking Just About Everything We Buy Online
You know how many vendors want us to leave email addresses when we buy online? Well, Google knows all about that. It says it doesn’t do anything with the data. Maybe! “Google offers users a compromise that involves trading products and web services in exchange for data that the company will collect through a variety of means you may not know about and have little to no control over. That data is then used to help Google target ads, a division of its business that’s largely responsible for it becoming one of the most valuable corporations on Earth.” – The Verge
What Happens When Site-Specific Art Can’t Be Site-Specific Any More?
“This purist notion of artwork inviolably tied to its context, once a subversive strike against tradition and the marketplace, seems almost quaint now, as artists, dealers, museums and patrons interpret “site-specificity” in ever more elastic ways. The phrase itself has been co-opted as marketing speak in recent years: “site-specific” might even steal the crown from “curated,” the reigning art-world term applied to everything from playlists to pop-up shops.” – New York Times Magazine