Manierre Dawson, “although not a household name, is increasingly recognized as the first American artist to work in a completely abstract mode. … He made his breakthrough to non-objective imagery prior to any exposure to modernist art. Instead, his innovation stemmed from his training and employment as a structural engineer.”
Tag: 07.09.15
Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’ – A Masterpiece Or A Mess? And Is It Just A Guy Thing?
“Jonathon Menjivar read On the Road as a teenager and, like so many American teens, was completely infatuated by it. His wife, fellow radio producer Hillary Frank, had never read it. They decided to read it together … Menjivar desperately wants her to see what he saw in it as a kid.” She doesn’t. (audio)
Why ‘The Act Of Killing’ Director Made A Second Documentary – With A Survivor Of The Mass Murders Confronting The Murderers
Joshua Oppenheimer (The Look of Silence): “Imagine you have to go to weddings and funerals and socialize politely with people who murdered your children because you’re too afraid to actually speak out and confront them. That takes a tremendous toll on our humanity.” (video interview and film clip)
There’s No Such Thing As A Psychopath
“Unlike discrete psychological disorders such as schizophrenia or depression, psychopathy is a disorder sustained by rhetoric rather than by science – ‘psychopath’ is just a strong word for a deviant, in the same way that ‘jerk’ describes someone you don’t like but reveals little about that person’s psychology.”
How Did The Middle Ages Get Such A Bum Rap As A Dark Ignorant Time? Unfair!
“Unfair because it has been found again and again that our skills, laws, liberties, nations, and languages are the result of hard work in the millennium reputed dark, unlit by reason, and recessive from the sunshine of the classical civilizations, when perfectly formed philosophers sat debating in public colonnades, monk-free.”
‘Phantom Of The Opera’ Gets A Dark, Gritty Revamp (No More Staircase!)
Producer Cameron Mackintosh: “We wanted to get into the grit of the opera house and the lair and make it far more atmospheric, in a stylized realistic way. … It’s a much more visceral show … more a musical play – a gothic musical play.”
Who’s Really Been Making The Decisions About ‘Go Set A Watchman’, And Why?
The enormously anticipated book is, after all, one that Harper Lee had refused for decades to publish (at least to the extent that she even remembered its existence as a distinct work). Claire Suddath traveled to Monroeville, Alabama to investigate, and to meet Lee’s attorney and de facto manager, Tonja Carter.
Now They’re Gonna Make A Musical About The Woman Who Said, ‘Where’s The Beef?’
“Says Necheles, ‘This is a musical based on the exploration of what it means to be famous and how people react to that fame.’
Says Shell: ‘In essence it focuses on a person I believe to have been the first reality TV star, a regular person who became famous basically by being herself.'”
What Does A Dancer Do After A Career-Killing Injury? [VIDEO]
“Karine Newborn knew she wanted to be a professional dancer since watching her mother dance as a little girl in Paris. Her career as a dancer took a sharp turn though after suffering an injury while performing on Broadway. The single mother and dancer found herself unable to continue her career as a dancer, putting her in a financial bind.”
Patti LuPone Shouldn’t Have To Police Cell Phone Use In The Theatre
“Here’s what I’m wondering. Why haven’t theaters, which have known about this problem for eons, taken a harder line on behalf of their own audiences and productions? Why, in all these years, hasn’t a deterrent been found? … At the point at which actors no longer feel they can do their jobs, management is required to step up.”