“After 244 years reference book firm Encyclopaedia Britannica has decided to stop publishing its famous and weighty 32-volume print edition.”
Tag: 03.13.12
Picketers Protest Paul Taylor Company’s Move To Lincoln Center Without Live Music
“The musicians’ union will be outside the doors of the Koch Theater on Tuesday night to protest the dance company’s decision to use canned music instead of a live orchestra. The move marks the first time there has been a ‘major performance’ in one of the main Lincoln Center halls without professional musicians.”
Jack Kerouac’s Only Play To Premiere This Fall
“Beat Generation, a three-act play rediscovered in a New Jersey warehouse in 2005, will be staged for the first time this October [at a festival] in Kerouac’s hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts.”
Thinking About Nothing, With Robert Krulwich
“I’m going to show you two kinds of nothing. The first is a small patch of space, way, way out in the universe, remote from everything, with nothing in it, no stars, no planets, no bits of dust, no debris, no atoms, not even one. It’s as empty as empty can be. And next, I’m going to show you a painting. Except it isn’t a painting, it’s a canvas, on which you see…absolutely nothing. No marks, no paint, no human gesture. It, too, is totally empty. It was made by the American artist Robert Rauschenberg.”
‘S**t’ – The Four-Letter Word That Got Rush Into All That Trouble
“‘Slut’ is a charged word even when it’s just used metaphorically. … And it is hard to imagine ‘slut’ being reclaimed the way ‘queer’ was, as a respectable label for academic programs and cultural centers. … Maybe someday ‘slut’ will be as comically dated as ‘bounder’ or ‘cad.’ But in recent times, it has actually become stronger and more offensive.”
The Smithsonian Weighs In On Video Game ‘Art’
“There is a tremendous amount of artistry that goes into video games. The final product, especially at the triple-A level, is a consumer good; it’s entertainment. You could certainly make the same argument ‘Is the movie Avatar art?’ I don’t think it’s an argument that can be won, but it’s an argument that can be had.”
Violence May Suck Us In, But It Won’t Keep Us Watching T.V.
In a study, people pick shows that sound more violent on paper – but enjoy watching those shows much more when most of the gore ends up on the cutting room floor.
A Movie That Had Everything Going For It – Only That ‘Everything’ Turned Out To Be Wrong
Why did John Carter flop when it had all kinds of internal and external support? That’s pretty easy to answer: Blame George Lucas.
Will Merce Cunningham’s Legacy Move To France?
“Robert Swinston, a veteran company member, has applied to become the director of the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers, France. If appointed, he plans on bringing two former company members with him — Daniel Madoff and Melissa Toogood — and to start a small group that would perform Cunningham works as well as new dances.”
This Bookstore Is Closing – Very, Very Slowly
The 83-year-old owner of Evanston’s Bookman’s Alley keeps changing the closing date of his venerable, quirky store – but you know he’s serious about it because the gumdrop bowl is gone.