“Portlandia was the moment something shifted and a new kind of person started showing up in Portland, who wasn’t the same kind of hearty doer, but more of a spectator who wants to be entertained by a city,” said Carye Bye, a former Portland-based artist who donated her hand-printed cards to Portlandia.
Tag: 03.19.18
Why Do People Binge-watch Netflix But Fear Long Plays?
People post on social media how quickly they watched an entire season, not unlike the days when young readers stayed up all night to buy, and then read, each instalment of Harry Potter. Yet when they hear of spending all day in a theatre, the average person will look at you as if you’ve gone mad. Six hours of Peer Gynt, even with intermissions and a dinner break? They react as if you’re a cultural masochist, enduring theatre like some David Blaine stunt.
Portland Museum Of Art Goes Free For Under-21s
The policy change was backed by philanthropist Susie Konkel, who is a well-known advocate for youth. All eligible visitors will also be able to sign up for the Susie Konkel Pass, which will provide the holder opportunities to attend special events such as free screenings of PMA Films.
*Really* Getting Inside The Music: Brian Eno Creates Immersive 3-D Music Installations
“Little colored bubbles float ever higher, growing larger as they rise toward the sky. People drift into a circle of six towering screens, wearing high-tech 3-D holographic visors, like moon-walkers taking their first steps in an alien atmosphere. They reach out their arms and use their thumbs and forefingers to pinch the air in front of them. Each time they do, new bubbles appear, and each one emits a single, precise musical tone. The tones combine and dissipate; there is the sound of crickets chirping, and waves of white noise. This is Bloom: Open Space.”
Weinstein Co. Declares Bankruptcy
“The company may yet be able to reorganize and continue to produce TV shows and films under new ownership. Lantern Capital put in a ‘stalking horse’ bid, which provides a floor for a bankruptcy auction. … The company also announced that it has released its employees from their non-disclosure agreements, as part of an ongoing negotiation with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.”
Uh-Oh – Barnes Foundation Isn’t Considering Selling Any Art Off, Is It?
That’s a worry some people have since the museum – now firmly ensconced in Center City Philadelphia rather than at Alfred Barnes’s old home in an inner suburb – has hired a collections assessor. But the Barnes’s CEO insists that nothing is for sale, and that the assessor is examining items that were never at the museum.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.19.18
Court Hearing/Protest Demonstration: Crucial Week in Berkshire/La Salle Deaccession Deliberations
Coming to a boil this week, the heated controversies over the fate of endangered collections at two small, little-known museums pose a huge potential threat to museums around the country. And there’s only one sure … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2018-03-19
The Pleasure of Context
Like many people, when I read a great book, I immediately cast about for other titles by the same author. When I see a film that catches my attention, I look for more by the same creative team. Part of this practice is a desire to get … read more
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2018-03-19
Old friends
I go back a long way with Laura Demanski, my best friend, who blogged with me as “Our Girl in Chicago” for many years. We met some three decades ago. Back then she was … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2018-03-20
Lin-Manuel Miranda And Ben Platt Create Mashup To Support “March For Our Live” Gun Protest
The peripatetic Lin-Manuel Miranda, he of a little show called “Hamilton,” and Ben Platt, erstwhile Tony-winning star of the hit musical “Dear Evan Hansen,” have teamed up for a three-minute performance that combines the first show’s “The Story of Tonight” with the latter’s “You Will Be Found.” The fusion, created by Alex Lacamoire — who did the orchestrations for both shows — is a fundraising tool for Saturday’s March for Our Lives, in Washington and other cities, for measures to end gun violence.
The Revolutionary Classics Scholar Who’s Using Twitter To Advance Knowledge
Emily Wilson’s presence on Twitter is quietly revolutionary, a new kind of experience for readers, poets, translators, and really anyone who likes to watch knowledge take shape in an open format, its seams exposed. Like-minded people sharing their obsessions were the soil in which the larger Internet once grew; those transactions, commercialized and monetized, remade the world, with infinite ramifications downstream, some miraculous, some horrible. But the process of writing—what my kids, when they used to see me at my computer, called “choosing words”—has been mostly non-transactional, contained within the silos of individual imaginations or small communities, like M.F.A. workshops.
A New Professional Orchestra Comprised Of Disabled Musicians
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is thought to be the first professional orchestra in the world to form an ensemble of disabled musicians. The group is led by a disabled conductor, James Rose, who has cerebral palsy.