Wow: “It was there, amid the alkali flats, whistling winds and triple-digit heat of the Mojave Desert, that Ms. Becket and her husband resettled and built the Amargosa Opera House, where she performed her ballets and pantomimes for the next 40 years. Ms. Becket turned the Amargosa into a cultural institution in a desolate area, an attraction to tourists, ranchers, farmers and even prostitutes from a local bordello.”
Tag: 02.03.17
Streaming Is Really Killing Sony (Or Is It A Few Big Flops?)
But the current “distant” fourth-place studio isn’t alone: “It is a crisis Sony shares with its Hollywood peers. In the UK and the US, revenue from streaming and downloads of films and TV shows passed sales of DVDs and Blu-ray discs for the first time last year.”
Ten Longform Literary Essays About That Most Unliterary Of Sports, Football
You can prepare for the Super Bowl or you can avoid it – these pieces will help you either way.
The World Has Gotten Exponentially Scarier, So Take Refuge In Abstract Art
It’s simply a relief: “Freed from the world, all you sense is your body moving through water and all you hear is the sound of your pulse inside your head. Contemplating abstract sculpture, you enter a relationship bereft of language, of story and of illustration; you have to simply measure yourself against the object and admire its intrusion.”
Dore Ashton, Chronicler Of The Abstract Expressionists And So Much More, Has Died At 88
Ashton was an art historian and thinker who didn’t simply observe. “She recorded the scene, and she inhabited it. She made a point of visiting artists in their studios, drinking with them at their favorite haunts and talking philosophy and aesthetics into the wee hours in downtown cafes.”
UK City Says Cutting All Its Art Funding Will “Help” Arts Groups
Grants to arts organisations in Bath are to be phased out completely by the local council, with campaigners claiming it will lead to financial support for emerging and mid-scale companies being “killed off”.
Ten Percent Of UK Teachers Polled Say Arts Education Has Been Cut In Their Schools
“The Guardian Teacher Network polled more than 1,000 teachers, with 80% claiming their schools had been making general cutbacks or were planning to. Nine percent of respondents reported that their schools had already scrapped art, music or drama, with a fifth claiming that one or more of these subjects had been given reduced timetable space.”
Terrorist Shot At Entrance To The Louvre – Museum Closes
“The attacker, who police say shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the assault, was seriously wounded after another soldier fired at him five times. A second man, who was reportedly acting suspiciously at the scene, has been detained. The Louvre has been closed “until further notice” and a safety zone has been set up around the museum.