“According to some scholars, Sarah Jessica Parker’s much-scrutinized protagonist is a feminist icon; according to others, she’s a post-feminist icon. She’s a philosopher in the 19th-century European tradition and the quintessential damsel in distress, a gay-rights poster child in Asia and somehow also a xenophobic bigot.”
Tag: 01.14.13
This Funder Wants Your Weirdest Ideas
“Want to stage a realistic re-enactment of a violent 1980s industrial dispute? Or perhaps line the interior of an apartment with copper sulphate crystals? These are the kind of unlikely proposals that the arts commissioning body Artangel has realised. Now it is asking artists, composers, filmmakers and choreographers to propose fresh ideas for up to five fantastical projects, on which it will lavish £1m between them.”
Houston’s Menil Collection Decides To Divorce A Controversial Tree
“The Menil Collection has decided to remove “The Art Guys Marry A Plant” from their collection.”
Effing The Ineffable: Love, Vladimir, And Estragon
How did these two men find each other? Why do they stay together? Even they do not know. Or, at least, they cannot say. … When we say that love is ineffable, as Beckett knew, what we mean is that, when we love, we don’t know what the hell we are doing. We can’t stop talking through it, trying to figure it out.”
Where Light Sculpture Meets Astronomy
“The light playing across the 4.5-metre-tall standing stone is that of cosmic particles as they dance through the Earth’s atmosphere. Or rather, as they are detected at the Super-Kamiokande observatory at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Cosmic Ray Research.”
Understanding The 20th Century By Way Of Its Music
“Audiences who are interested in geopolitics, the history of the 20th century, the economic situation [can find] a route via these things, for them to care who Bela Bartok was.”
Golden Globes Ratings Were Way Up
“The 70th annual Globes telecast, with hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, attracted 19.7 million viewers, a 17 percent increase from last year.”
English National Opera’s Finances Are ‘Shockingly Bad’
The company “has posted a deficit of £2.5 million, with audiences running at 71 per cent of capacity – 9 per cent down on the previous year. Production costs are up £1.5million on 2011, box office income down £1.2 million. Reserves are now standing at under £1 million.”
National Theatre Of Scotland Gets Permanent HQ
“The National Theatre of Scotland is to consolidate its headquarters in a new £5.5 million home for its rehearsal, administration, technical and storage departments in the north of Glasgow. In keeping with the company’s founding ethos as a ‘theatre without walls’ there will be no performance space in the new facility.”
Could Oslo’s Picasso Murals Be Destroyed?
“The Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage fears that Picasso’s first monumental concrete murals, which were made between the late 1950s and the early 1970s for two government buildings in Oslo, may be destroyed. The buildings were severely damaged during the deadly terrorist attack in the Norwegian capital in July 2011.”