A quarry which scientists have recently identified as being the source of Stonehenge’s famous rocks is being plundered at a “terrifying rate” by thieves selling them on eBay for £8, tourism bosses say.
Tag: 02.25.16
When Audience Accessibility Is Part Of The Art
“Theatres are increasingly making their work accessible for deaf and disabled audiences in a more creative, integrated fashion and are placing issues of access right at the heart of their design.”
Mapping How Antiquity Sounded
“What was truly surprising for me was going into a space that was ancient, and to crawl around the ceiling and look at the walls and realize that they were looking at things acoustically. It wasn’t just about the architecture. They had these big jugs that were put up there to sip certain frequencies out of the air … They built diffusion, a way to break up the sound waves by putting striations in the walls. They were actively trying to tune the space.”
The Demographics Of The Academy Of Motion Pictures, By The Numbers
“In 2012, The Times reported that Oscar voters were 94% white and 77% male. Four years later, the academy has made scant progress: Oscar voters are 91% white and 76% male, according to a new Times study. Blacks are about 3% of the academy, up from 2%; Asians and Latinos are each just over 2%, with both groups up slightly.”
Looking For Creativity In Movies? Short Films Are Where It’s At
“Some of the most creative and engaging stories today are being told through short films, even as the genre remains marginalized in the cultural mainstream.”
Chris Rock’s Oscar-Hosting Gig Is ‘The Moment That [His] Entire Career Has Pointed Toward’
Andrew O’Hehir: “At this point, if Rock doesn’t open the show with a slam-bang musical number, featuring Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump and Bill Cosby in KKK robes, half of Twitter will announce that he sucks. (And if he does, the other half will profess undying outrage.) But he’s the right man for the job; I honestly can’t think of anyone who is better positioned to tackle the #OscarsSoWhite moment with humor and anger and just a little cerebral detachment.”
How Charlotte Rampling Handled Her Last Pre-Oscars Interview (Very Rampling-ly)
“Under the vigilant eye of her publicist Lauren Schwartz, who never left her side, Ms. Rampling replied stoically to a question about the slim chance, in the wake of her lapse, that she would make off with an Oscar. She had held out the hope, it seemed, that the highly charged matter would never come up. A stony silence followed the question.”
Teens Have Not Stopped Reading, And David Denby’s New Yorker Jeremiad Is ‘You Kids Get Off My Lawn’ Journalism
“Ah, it appears that, fleeing human connection, lost to their reductive gender-specific pastimes of sports and, um, friends, teen hyphen agers (The teen hyphen ager! In the pizza parlor! With the smart phone!) have murdered reading. But soft – no one is dead yet, not even you, geriatric Cassandra. Nor are the teen hyphen agers brain-dead.”
Atlanta Ballet Chooses New Artistic Director
“Gennadi Nedvigin, principal dancer with San Francisco Ballet, traveled halfway around the world and spent half a lifetime preparing for his next major debut – in a role he might not have taken, if it hadn’t been for a remarkable experience with dancers of Atlanta Ballet.”
Picasso’s Daughter Loses In Court Battle Over Bust Of Marie-Thérèse
“The court on Wednesday ordered Maya Widmaier-Picasso, who is 80 and a Paris resident, to pay 25,000 euros, about $28,000, in court costs to the Qatari [royal] family’s representative.” The Al-Thanis are in an ownership dispute with dealer Larry Gagosian over the sculpture, which was evidently sold twice.