“I recently asked students at a course I was giving to help me define dance [and] the one we arrived at that stood out, especially in this context, was that dance is a vibration of the spirit, that stirs the body to move when music is being played. By that definition, it is not unreasonable to conclude that if the quantum universe is made of music then we are all dancing right now.”
Tag: 05.30.12
Art That Speaks To You: A Wind Organ Sculpture In London’s Canary Wharf
Luke Jerram’s Aeolus “mutters breathy tunes while looking like somebody jammed a pipe organ and porcupine together in a transmogrifier, which then malfunctioned.”
Should Web TV Be A Farm League For Cable?
“I really think the networks would be smart to start using web television as a farm system. A season of web television usually adds up to about the length of a pilot. If a motivated web audience finds a show and proves willing to keep coming back for the bits and the pieces of a pilot over a period of time, that might be a good indicator that a core audience exists for a show that a network can build on…”
Stage Director Openly Calls Head Of Vienna Opera House A Liar
William Friedkin, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who has developed a sideline in staging opera, called Theater an der Wien Intendant Roland Geyer the l-word this week (causing a storm in the Viennese press) during a dispute over the company’s revival of Friedkin’s production of The Tales of Hoffmann.
A Major New Museum For Movies In LA
Renzo Piano and L.A architect Zoltan Pali, the academy announced Wednesday, will team up to turn the 1939 May Co. structure, one of L.A.’s classic Art Deco landmarks, into a museum celebrating the history of the film industry.
Have University Presses Outlived Their Time?
“It is, I admit, hard to imagine major universities without presses. But one has to at least consider: Have those various intellectual communities become too splintered, specialized and small? Have the monographs that university presses produce become so costly that individual scholars can’t purchase them?”
The New Barnes – Tribute To A Past
“The new Barnes cannot revive the old. That ship has sailed. Meanwhile, Philadelphia can take ownership of a major institution with a $14m budget, a budding $50m endowment and a vastly expanded scope of functions, not to mention public access befitting its popularity.”
Last Orange Prize Goes To Madeline Miller’s The Song Of Achilles
The first-time novelist “won the award for [her] gripping and touching love story between exiled princeling Patroclus and Achilles, strong, beautiful and the son of a goddess. Miller becomes the fourth consecutive US novelist to win the prize, now in its 17th and final year of being called the Orange prize, following the mobile services company’s decision to end its sponsorship earlier this month.”
Kiev Gets Its First Biennale
Arsenale 2012 “takes place in an old weapons arsenal on a pretty hilltop street that overlooks a sea of apartment blocks typical of cities of former Soviet states. Peace and quiet is broken only by the solemn chime of church bells from the adjacent monastery … Unsurprisingly, the locals are not over the moon about their new neighbour, which aims to attract some 30,000 globetrotting art pilgrims in its debut summer.”
Ex-Royal Academy Of Music Official Jailed For Embezzlement
“A former finance director at the Royal Academy of Music has been sentenced to 20 months in prison after defrauding the institution of £236,000. Janet Whitehouse, 56, admitted to three counts of fraud, including faking paperwork to boost her pension fund.”