Presenting an award to Emma Thompson at the National Board of Review’s ceremony, Streep called Disney (among other things) “a gender bigot”.
Tag: 01.08.14
World’s Most-Visited Art Museum Sees Dip in Attendance
You know which one it is, most likely. Its number of visitors for 2013, though down by half a million from an unusually successful 2012, is still about one-third higher than the figure for the runners-up.
Another Fat-Shaming Ballet Brouhaha, This Time in London
“The English National Ballet School has been accused of putting pressure on its students to lose weight in a controversial message on Facebook. A call for students … to ‘work off” Christmas calories appeared on the school’s Facebook page … It comes despite widespread industry concern about the issue of eating disorders among dancers.”
Traveling Across China, Playing the Hollywood Hits
The hardy musicians of the American Hollywood Film Orchestra “schlep by bus, train and plane to more than a dozen [Chinese] cities from late December to mid-January, offering up crowd-pleasing medleys from movies such as Titanic, Dances With Wolves, The Incredibles and The Godfather.”
Meet Senator Renzo Piano
The starchitect has been appointed to a lifetime seat in the upper house of Italy’s parliament.
Today’s Top AJBlog Posts 01.08.14
Go to the Gemba
Source: Engaging Matters | Published on 2014-01-08
Barbican loses its head of music
Source: Slipped Disc | Published on 2014-01-08
The Return of Pythagoras
Source: PostClassic | Published on 2014-01-08
Second-Rate Or “One Of The Greatest Ever”?
Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2014-01-09
TT: So you want to see a show?
Source: About Last Night | Published on 2014-01-09
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A Manifesto For The Place Of Musicians In The World
“For starters, let’s decommission our obsession with being geniuses. Three-fourths of the people reading this are geniuses. Who in our world is not a genius? Such a diluted, entry-level position. Such resting on wilted laurels of cleverness. We all took the big leap into pursuing a career in the arts because we were crowned geniuses back wherever we came from. And now it’s the classic scenario: we’re the former high school football stars grateful to be riding the bench in the big leagues.”
Report: London Theatre Collapse Didn’t Keep Audiences Away From Theatres
“When I heard about the Apollo I said, ‘That’s it, we’re going to see some damage here’. But we’ve had a better [Christmas] period this year than we did last year – and that was when we were in our honeymoon period.”
Data Everywhere. So What Does It Tell Us About Culture?
“With museum archives, ancient manuscripts, and whole libraries being digitized, some researchers argue that data analysis will let studies of culture finally claim some of the empirical certainty traditionally associated with “hard” sciences like chemistry and physics.”
Newly Revealed: DeGaulle Was Contender For Nobel Literature Prize
“The Swedish Academy keeps all information about nominations and selections for the literature Nobel secret until 50 years have passed. Newly opened archives in Sweden show De Gaulle was one of 80 individuals suggested for the 1963 honour, alongside more obvious candidates including Pablo Neruda, Samuel Beckett and WH Auden.”