“The myth of the ‘information society’ is that we’re drowning in knowledge. But it’s easier to propagate ignorance.” That’s especially so when issues are so complicated that it’s easier to present them as the topics for discussion in which both sides are granted equal time.
Tag: 03.09.14
David Carr: The Quality Of TV Has Gotten So Good It’s Edging Out Other Art Forms
“The vast wasteland of television has been replaced by an excess of excellence that is fundamentally altering my media diet and threatening to consume my waking life in the process.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.09.14
Gerard Mortier on his last day at Salzburg
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-03-09
An Art Museum For Las Vegas After All?
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-03-10
Public Artists earn $37,000 annually in England
AJBlog: Aesthetic Grounds | Published 2014-03-09
‘America: How It Works’ by Heathcote Williams
AJBlog: Straight|Up | Published 2014-03-09
Odious Comparisons: Arts and Sports
AJBlog: We The Audience | Published 2014-03-09
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Michelangelo’s David Carrying A Rifle? Not If Italy Can Help It
Of course it’s in an American advertisement. “A philosopher and the city’s councillor for culture, Sergio Givone, claimed in newspaper La Repubblica the depiction was ‘a real abuse’. ‘It is an act of violence towards the sculpture; like taking a hammer to it and perhaps, actually, even worse,’ he said.”
How Did The Detroit Symphony Orchestra Reinvent Itself?
Partly by doing outreach at places like Ikea. Yes, Ikea flash mob Beethoven 9.
What Derek Jarman Meant To The Stage, Not Just The Screen
“Ken Russell – about to direct Peter Maxwell Davies’s opera Taverner – tried to tempt him into designing the Royal Opera House production. Jarman got as far as suggesting lighting the auditorium blue instead of blusher pink, costuming the orchestra, and hanging dead cattle up with the chandelier. … Ralph Koltai got the job instead.”
If Dance Gets Back Into UK Schools, Will Kids Learn To Express Their Feelings More Clearly?
The ballerina who wants to bring dance lessons into the schools: “I have two young daughters and they’re growing up with such a facility for communicating online. It’s amazing the way they can communicate in so many different ways, but then they forget to communicate with their bodies.”
What’s The Problem With Meryl Streep?
“Streep isn’t interested in inhabiting a character as much as presenting her latest incarnation in the manner of a student presenting the flawlessly constructed jigamajoo she’s rigged up for the Science Fair, waiting for the ribbons to be pinned to her chest. After eight Golden Globes, three Oscars, and 46 nominations between the two ceremonies, it’s working.”
Paris, Before It Was Destroyed/Saved By Gentrification
“An architecturally harmonious capital rose from the rubble, a city of spectacle, built for a new, modern economy, but homogeneous and no longer welcoming to many of the poor souls who had helped make the place run and had always been deep in its cultural lifeblood.”
Gerard Mortier, Feisty Opera Visionary, Dies At 70
“These clashes were always expressions of Mr. Mortier’s bracing and intellectually charged vision of opera, and his disdain for the decorous irrelevance often associated with it.”