“The basic reason is that for all its magnificence as an art form, opera is no longer seen as an art of our time. The operas presented by Opera Australia especially were mostly written in the 18th and 19th centuries.”
Tag: 12.09.15
With A Revamped National Gallery, Singapore Hopes To Make Itself The Nerve Center Of Southeast Asian Art
“More than 600 million people live in the 10 Asian nations roughly south of China and east of India, in what Eugene Tan, the director of the National Gallery, described as ‘one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world.’ Yet much of its art has been overlooked by the West, and many significant works have been confined to private collections, partly a legacy of colonialism.”
The Purpose Of An Essay – How You Persuade
“I’m torn between making broad sweeping statements and getting at a truth that’s practical and mundane, truth in the trenches, sort of, which is much closer to how I experience the actual act of writing an essay.”
The Murdered Writers Of Bangladesh
“For Bangladeshi authors and bloggers, religious fanaticism is putting their security and freedom of speech at stake, in a level of repression only comparable to dictatorial regimes of the past. K Anis Ahmed explains what it means to be a writer in Bangladesh’s harrowing ‘new normal.'”
Drawing As A Tool For Justice (No, Not Courtroom Sketches)
“For a long time I felt like going to protests was the same as — you know, when people go to church but they don’t really believe in God? But they think, oh, better just hedge my bets. I don’t necessarily think this is going to do any good, but I really ought to do it anyway. It’s the right thing to do.”
Do Happier People Live Longer? The Study Says…
“There have been numerous studies in recent years suggesting that happier people may live longer and that happiness could even help protect against some health problems, like heart disease. According to a massive new study published in The Lancet, happiness has no such power.”
What Happened After Patricia Arquette Made Her Speech At The Oscars About Gender Pay Disparity
“A woman came up to me the day after I won an Oscar to thank me for my speech. She told me that her boss called her in to his office that Monday morning and gave her a raise. There was no reason she was getting paid less, and she deserved the raise. She started crying, and I started crying.”
A Revitalized ‘South Park’ Is Nailing Our Era Of Outrage
“This season is sketching something like a grand – if messy – unified theory of anger, inequality and disillusionment in 2015 America. … South Park, Colo., [has been] taken over by a new school principal … and his crew of like-minded, jacked-up frat bros, who believe that being p.c. ‘means you love nothing more than beer, working out and the feeling that you get when you rhetorically defend a marginalized community from systems of oppression!'”
Teens Are Getting Famous On A Video Social Network You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
“YouNow says it records 150,000 broadcasts a day and 100 million user logins a month. According to its own internal stats, … 74 percent of its users are under 24 and 56 percent of them are female.” With 510,000 followers, YouNow star Zach Clayton “can launch a broadcast with no warning and coax tens of thousands of people to check in on him within the space of an hour.”
Vast Collection of Second Empire Art to Be Sold by Christopher Forbes
“The collection was begun by Mr. Forbes’s father, Malcolm Forbes, and put together over 40 years. ‘This is the biggest and most important Second Empire collection in the world,’ [the auctioneer] said. Major works from the collection have circulated in the United States as an itinerant exhibition over the past dozen years.”