“The Minnesota State Patrol says 79-year-old Mark P. Malkovich III of Portsmouth, R.I., was killed Sunday in an accident on Interstate 35 near North Branch, which is about 40 miles north of Minneapolis.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
New York Vs. LA, Round Three Billion And Twelve
“New Yorkers envy Angeleno artists their free-form flamboyance. We’ve imported the extroverted architecture of Southern Californians like Frank Gehry” et al, while “for years, critics here used the L.A. Phil’s venturesome spirit to attack the New York Philharmonic’s oppressive sense of dignity.” But look which city is edging ahead.
Tony-Winning Cops Spend Most Of Their Time On Thefts
“Eighty per cent of our crime is grand larcenies,” said the commanding officer of one of the two NYPD precincts being honored at this year’s Tony Awards. “You go out to the theatre, you go out to dinner, you put your pocketbook on the back of your chair–and somebody comes and steals your wallet.”
J.M. Coetzee On Writing Under Apartheid-Era Surveillance
“The intellectual community was not large,” he told an audience in Paris. “The fact remains that I was rubbing shoulders in daily life with people who in secret were making judgments about whether or not I was going to be allowed to be published and read in South Africa.”
How E-Readers Violate The Social Contract
“The entire impulse behind Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iBooks assumes that you cannot read a book unless you own it first — and only you can read it unless you want to pass on your device. That goes against the social value of reading, the collective knowledge and collaborative discourse that comes from access to shared libraries.”
Karen Finley On Why Individual Artist Grants Matter
“Although President Obama’s NEA chairman, Rocco Landesman, has made noises about reinstating individual artist grants, the NEA no longer gives them, and Finley worries about the harm that does to the next generation. … ‘The difference is, unless you come from a family with means, and I didn’t, you’re going to not be an artist.'”
An Orchestra Of Robots Programmed To Improvise
“Watching the Karmetic Machine Orchestra is like getting a peek at the inner workings of a factory through a sheet of glass. It churns. Gears turn. Wired mallets beat drum heads. Some of the musicians sit at laptops looking like workers as they rhythmically press buttons.”
What’s The Deadline For Proving An Arts Leader’s Success?
“Is a year enough? How about five years? Or a dozen years? Should there be a 90-day evaluation? It make have taken God only seven days to create the universe. But it took Michelangelo four years to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.”
Louise Bourgeois Dies at 98
“Ms. Bourgeois often spoke of pain as the subject of her art, and fear: fear of the grip of the past, of the uncertainty of the future, of loss in the present. ‘The subject of pain is the business I am in,’ she said. ‘To give meaning and shape to frustration and suffering.’ … Yet it was her gift for universalizing her interior life as a complex spectrum of sensations that made her art so affecting.”
Dance Loses Its Sense Of Family
“When the Place recently staged its 40th anniversary gala, some of those present had been involved with the building for most of their careers. These days, that degree of attachment is rare. Dance today is rapidly reinventing itself – and dancers want to experiment with as wide a range of choreographers and styles as possible.”