“In fact, experts say, there is plenty of scientific data to support the new labels, including evidence from some 30 nations that have been using graphic imagery to discourage tobacco use for as much as many as 10 years or more.”
Tag: 06.22.11
The Sorry State Of Arts Journalism
“There’s really good art out there, and there are good arts writers. The arts media landscape is like Detroit; desolated and uncertain, but with the unexpected fecundity that comes from enterprising people taking on whole deserted blocks as creative frontier. Right now, it’s the golden age of hard times.”
Palestinian Theater Stages First Show Since Director’s Murder
“Israeli and Palestinian police have not identified the gunman who shot and killed Juliano Mer Khamis in April, but on Tuesday students from Jenin’s Freedom Theatre performed Shu Kamam, or What Else, as a defiant message that they will continue his work.
Audiences And Cinemas Sour On 3D, As Hollywood Tries Hard To Change Their Minds
“[T]here has been a wave of disappointing revenue for 3-D films as audiences in North America have been souring on the format. As a result, companies with huge investments in the technology are scrambling to reverse the downward trend.”
Michael Kaiser Says UK Arts Orgs Must Program Farther In Advance
The current head of the Kennedy Center and former leader of the Royal Opera House says that if British arts organizations want to attract more private funding, they should plan their programs three to five years in advance rather than the six-to-twelve-month period most of them use currently.
At Shakespeare’s Globe: Things Go Better Outdoors
“Like food, music and sex, theatre acquires something extra when it’s enjoyed in the open air. There’s a special chemistry between actors and audience when they can make eye contact in daylight, and nowhere, I think, is this more true than at Shakespeare’s Globe on London’s South Bank.”
Reality TV Series Tries To Change Australia’s Immigration Debate
“A three-part reality television series that debuted this week on the SBS network in Australia is tackling this most heated of topics in a novel way – by sending six native-born Australians with differing views on immigration on punishing journeys that retrace the voyages of asylum seekers seeking safe haven in their country.”
Cows & Cows & Cows: The Modern Dance Version
“So about this time last year, an oddly fascinating video came out entitled ‘Cows and Cows and Cows’. The video went on to become something of a viral hit, and has now inspired a modern dance company to perform an interpretation of it.”
Is The Internet Filter Killing Thoughtful Debate?
“If at a mass level, people don’t hear about ideas that are challenging or only hear about ideas that are likeable – as in, you can easily click the “like” button on them – that has fairly significant consequences.”
A Bookburning In Holland
“The Canadian writer Lawrence Hill recently received the unsettling news that a Dutch political group would be assembling on Wednesday in Amsterdam to burn copies of his novel, The Book of Negroes (published in the Netherlands under the title Het Negerboek, and in the U.S. as Someone Knows My Name).”