“Let’s get rid of that idea right now. Prophecies are really about now. In science fiction it’s always about now. What else could it be about? There is no future. There are many possibilities, but we do not know which one we are going to have.” (That said, she’s “sorry to have been so right.”)
Tag: 01.20.18
Oslo’s New Opera House Is The City’s Most Striking, Democratic Building
The most striking modern building in the capital of Norway proudly identifies itself as the Oslo Opera House. Yet a more democratically accessible building in this hereditary kingdom would be difficult to imagine. When I paid my first visit last year, young people were dangling their feet in the water from its roof. Yes, its roof. In an audacious move, the Norwegian architectural firm Snohetta extended the roof line right into the city’s harbour, creating an enormous sloping public space, regularly inhabited by citizens and non-citizens alike.
Philip Roth Talks About Life After Writing
I had “a strong suspicion that I’d done my best work and anything more would be inferior. I was by this time no longer in possession of the mental vitality or the verbal energy or the physical fitness needed to mount and sustain a large creative attack of any duration on a complex structure as demanding as a novel…. Every talent has its terms — its nature, its scope, its force; also its term, a tenure, a life span…. Not everyone can be fruitful forever.”
Dallas Black Dance Theatre Director Suddenly Departs
By all outward appearances, she had a successful start, quickly putting her own stamp on the company. End-of-the-year wrap-ups in The Dallas Morning News and other local performing arts publications cited Bridget Moore’s contributions to the local dance scene as among the most important in 2017.
“Cool School” Artist Ed Moses, 91
Moses will be remembered as an L.A. art world fixture, one of the city’s most productive and experimental artists of the last half-century. He had a restless romance with abstract painting that sparked a perpetually evolving body of work, leading him to dub himself “The Mutator.” Moses formed the “Cool School” of artists — who included Ed Ruscha, Robert Irwin, Larry Bell, Edward Kienholz, John Altoon, Ken Price and Billy Al Bengston — at L.A.’s influential Ferus Gallery in the 1950s and ’60s. Their raucous partying and creative camaraderie not only fused a nascent local scene but made the art world beyond take notice.
Scarlett Johannson Tells James Franco To Give Back His Time’s Up Pin
Johansson addressed Franco, and the many allegations against him, at the Women’s March in L.A. She questioned “how a person could ‘publicly stand by an organization that helps to provide support for victims of sexual assault, while privately preying on people who have no power.’ She then added, ‘I want my pin back, by the way.'”
Julius Lester, Activist, Author, And Newbery Award Finalist, Dies At 78
“After initially publishing the instruction book The Folksinger’s Guide to the 12-String Guitar as Played by Leadbelly with musician Pete Seeger in 1965, Professor Lester went on to write essays, fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books. Among the latter was 1968’s To Be a Slave, which was named a Newbery Honor Book – a finalist for the prestigious Newbery Medal. He also collaborated with African-American illustrator Jerry Pinkney on children’s books, including a reworking of the Uncle Remus tales and 1996’s Sam and the Tigers: A Retelling of Little Black Sambo.”
Smithsonian Sites Remain Open In D.C. On Monday As Federal Government Remains Shut Down
After Monday? Probably not; and the National Zoo webcams will also close down as the Zoo closes (personnel will still care for the animals, however). “The Smithsonian announced that it has ‘funds available to keep the museums open on Monday. We will update this announcement as needed.'”
At Two Awards Shows, Different Top Contenders For Oscars Get Big Wins, Over The Weekend
The Producers Guild Awards loved Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, but the Screen Actors Guild (where women headlined, and wore pink instead of black in reference to the weekend’s many marches) went for Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri.
What’s Next For The Partly Recovered San Antonio Symphony?
Some good things have happened since the near total shutdown in December: “The musicians have a contract that extends through August, and interim executive director Karina Bharne is in place. In addition, the original board, known as the Symphony Society of San Antonio is back at the helm with a new chairwoman, Kathleen Weir Vale. Still unknown is what will happen next. Musicians will begin negotiating their next contract soon, and it’s unclear who the next generation of leadership will be for the symphony and what will be different next season to finally get this troubled organization back on track financially.”