Nearly two years after the ABT star retired from the stage and returned home to the Argentine capital, she’s been named director of the ballet company at the Teatro Colón.
Tag: 02.08.17
How Nicole Kidman Put Together Her Own All-Star HBO Series
A lot of actors start production companies in which they’re not all that involved in the actual producing. Not Kidman with Big Little Lies: she got the rights to the book, got Reese Witherspoon on board, and the two of them lined up a director, a screenwriter, a big-name cast, and the studio themselves. Sarah Lyall gets the story.
How Boundaries Help You Be More Creative
“We tend to think of creativity as something artistic—the quality that produces masterpieces. But it’s actually an important part of just getting everyday stuff done. It’s what allows a programmer to complete her first line of original code, a product manager to identify a new market for an existing product, and an elementary-school teacher to find an entertaining way to teach subtraction. And when it comes to situations as different as these, constraints seem to improve our performance.”
The Artist’s Job Now? Radical Empathy
“Radical empathy, as I define it, is the act of reaching out with an open heart and mind, even if we feel the person or community we are reaching out to is undeserving of such openness. It’s the notion that, if we swallow our own hurt long enough to extend empathy to our opposition no matter what (that’s the radical part), we will establish connections capable of yielding far greater fruit than any amount of soap-boxing or condemnation ever will. Radical empathy is how the artist and arts institutions will foster communication and connection across communities. Radical empathy is the artist’s new job.”
Steven Spielberg – Genius From The Perfectly Ordinary
“From a certain angle one can see Spielberg as one of those archetypal children of the mythic suburbs, cheery on the outside and nervewracked on the inside, a myth on which his own films have worked variations time and again. So much of his early trajectory feels so generic.”
‘Nevertheless, She Persisted’ And The Age Of The Weaponized Meme
“You couldn’t have designed better fodder for a meme had you tried.” Megan Garber writes about how and why Mitch McConnell’s now-notorious mansplain about Elizabeth Warren became the feminist slogan tweeted ’round the world.
Another One Down – Seattle Stranger Staff Art Critic Quits
“Jen Graves, who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for criticism and a nominee for the best art reporting award from the U.S. section of the International Association of Art Critics, was an increasing rare entity: an art critic working full time at a major city newspaper. The number of people in that role has dwindled in recent years as the media business has struggled and publications have cut staff.”
Bard College President: We Must Defend America’s Universities
Leon Botstein: “The presidents of our colleges and universities must defend the principles that have enabled institutions of higher education to flourish. These are freedom and tolerance, and openness to individuals no matter their national origin or religion. The actions and spirit of the new administration threaten the American university’s core values.”
Alex Ross: Art, Artists And Political Protest
“Ultimately, artists of integrity will have no choice in how they respond to the Great Besmirchment. Those who thrive on politically charged material will continue in that vein. (In contemporary classical music, Ted Hearne is a master of that mode; recent works have addressed WikiLeaks, race relations, and the Supreme Court.) Yet those who devote themselves to numbered string quartets or painterly abstractions should not feel pressure to forsake their destiny. The task of the audience is to absorb art’s conflicting messages and remain alert to unexpected revelations.”
Andrew Wyeth’s Love Letters
The painter’s correspondence with girlfriend Alice Moore, whom he dated as a young 20-something, has recently surfaced, and it changes some of what biographers thought they knew.