Except that the prize at the festival of Dionysus wasn’t a statuette. It was a live goat.
Tag: 02.06.15
Almost All Of Us Occasionally Do What Brian Williams Did
Alva Noë: “A lot of folks are trying to make sense of what would drive Brian Williams, a reporter, the face of NBC news, to make up easily fact-checkable stories about his experiences as a reporter … Ego? Self-aggrandizement? Trying to make himself seem better, braver, tougher, more experienced than he really is? I have a slightly different hypothesis: …”
New York Museums Have Started Officially Banning Selfie Sticks
“The reason for the restriction is the threat of accidental damage to museum exhibits and art work, like potentially tearing through a rare Picasso painting at the Met. Stopping to position for a selfie can also lead to congestion in already crowded museums.”
America’s Orchestras And Music Schools Have A Diversity Problem
“Ethnic diversity remains a troublesome question for American orchestras. Just over four percent of their musicians are African-American and Latino, according to the League of American Orchestras, and when it comes to orchestra boards and CEOs, the numbers are even starker: only one percent. Ethnic diversity is also a rare sight among guest soloists and conductors.”
What “Boyhood” Shows Us About Girlhood
“As the title declares, the film is very much a boy’s coming-of-age story, but Boyhood is also about girlhood. Mason has a sister, Samantha, who grows up alongside him over the course of the 12 years it took to make the film.” Her trajectory is, in its way, as telling as his.
The Christmas Gift That Made “To Kill A Mockingbird” Possible
“The book is now so central to our culture that it exudes an air of inevitability. But that wasn’t the case one Christmas Day on the Upper East Side of New York, when the literary existence of Scout and Atticus and Boo depended on a tired but determined Harper Lee. And on an envelope in a tree.” (audio)
Eat Your Heart Out, Rothko Chapel (And Dallas, Too): Austin Is Getting A Chapel By Ellsworth Kelly
The 91-year-old Color Field artist has given the University of Texas’s Blanton Museum of Art “an unrealized design for a chapel first conceived for a private collector in 1986. For the past two years, Kelly’s been working with the museum to finally bring the now-titled Austin chapel to pass.”
Georgia’s ‘Y’allywood’ Is Booming So Hard, There Aren’t Enough Crew Members To Keep Up
“Georgia officials are concerned that the worker shortage will drive filmmakers to other states.”
Religion And Geography Are Destiny For Theatres In Boston
“There are four factors that Boston’s 300-year-long struggle between censorship and commerce in the performing arts has produced. First, when we talk about theatre in Boston as it now exists, we are talking about a way of doing theatre that is only forty or so years old.”
What’s On Author Anne Tyler’s Nightstand?
“I keep only a New Yorker on my night stand, which I do my best to eke out over the space of an entire week. It distresses me that The New Yorker publishes just 47 issues a year, which makes the eking-out process a mathematical challenge.”