“As streamed video on demand increasingly strives to become a channel itself, viewers might consider it to be an adequate substitution for other premium channels, or perhaps they are switching to economize on their time and money spent.”
Tag: 01.20.13
Forget Novels – Bret Easton Ellis’s Real Art Form Is the Tweet
Twitter mixes literature (of an admittedly minimal sort) with performance, and it’s perfect for Ellis, who has always been, when you think about it, more of a conceptual artist than an author. … In this new métier, each part of his persona is on view: satirist, nihilist, glamour guy, exhibitionist, knee-jerk contrarian, self-pitying cokehead, and a few other things.”
Glenda Jackson Says Her Fellow MPs Could Never Hack It In The Theatre
“The kind of behaviour you saw in parliament would not be tolerated for 30 seconds in a professional theatre. Essentially, there’s a lack of professionalism, very poor timekeeping, a great deal of wasting time, and egos the size of which I’ve never seen in my life before.”
How An Agnostic Can Approach Religion
“To evaluate a religion, we need to distinguish the three great human needs religions typically claim to satisfy: love, understanding, and knowledge. Doing so lets us appreciate religious love and understanding, even if we remain agnostic regarding religious knowledge.”
Andy Warhol, Expressionist
“[His] 300 drawings from the 1950s … show another side to Warhol, an artist we mostly know for his pop art screen prints, his soup cans, car crashes, Marilyns and so on. Here … we see a skilled and sensitive draughtsman producing images that are more Egon Schiele than pop art.”
In Rehearsal For The World Premiere Of Doubt, The Opera
“At one point in the afternoon, mezzo soprano Denyce Graves arrived, dressed for an evening out in contrast to the three other principals … in their casual sweaters and sneakers.”
On Amazon, The Literary Pile-On Claims Victims
“Attack reviews are hard to police. It is difficult, if not impossible, to detect the difference between an authentic critical review and an author malevolently trying to bring down a colleague, or organized assaults by fans.”
The Cloisters, Under Ambience Attack, Fights Back
“The gist of the Met’s letters is ‘we wish they would reconsider the design and perhaps come up with a plan that doesn’t pierce the treetops on the Palisades,’ Harold Holzer, a museum spokesman, said.”
Porn And Romcoms Are Ruining Heterosexual Love
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Julianne Moore slam the kind of media most people consume – and claim porn and the romantic comedy are murdering love lives.
Race, Gender, And The Sex Lives Of Contemporary Twenty-Somethings
“Sandy’s fight with Hannah reveals a lot about previously unexplored racial tension on Girls, and it does so in a way that’s far more nuanced than a token minority character is usually allowed. He rips her ‘bullshit’–in short, how girls like Hannah fetishize black men, then ditch them when they share their thoughts and feelings.”