Why The Media, And Its Consumers, Are (Legitimately) Fascinated By Anthony Weiner’s Downfall

“[The] private sexual activities of public figures ‘down to the intimate details’ do not need ‘other relevance’ to be inherently relevant. The private sex lives of public figures are inherently relevant because it is fascinating to observe human beings acting strangely, or acting as we’ve always suspected that they are acting, or doing things counter to their own interests, or messing up, or ruining themselves. Consult Shakespeare or Dostoyevsky for more.”

John Waters On Bad Taste

“Taste is style, and to know bad taste of course you have to have been taught the rules of the tyranny of good taste … I thank my mother every day for teaching me proper table manners – which fork to use, all that stuff – even though it led to a career that humiliated and embarrassed her.”

Explaining Saburo Teshigawara And Karas, Step By Step

“His company’s name means ‘crow’, but Saburo Teshigawara is more of a magpie – bringing together different elements of movement, text, design and lighting into performances of symbols and senses. … Think of Teshigawara’s pieces not as theatrical events but as sensorial experiences, more poetic than dramatic, interested in symbol rather than story, with nebulous meanings but vivid sensory effects.”

Music For Former Airports

Composer Lisa Bielawa on her Tempelhof Broadcast: “I wanted to see hundreds of community musicians, from all over Berlin, come together and make music together on the runways and taxiways. It seemed impossible to achieve, but then again, everything always seems impossible when it first occurs to me.”