The 33 creditors listed range widely, including Artforum magazine, New York “global cultural communications company” Sutton PR, and the biennale’s own accounting firm, Dagenais, Lapierre, Simard et Associes. (Full disclosure: Canadian Art Foundation, the charitable foundation that publishes Canadian Art, is also listed among the creditors in the document.)
Tag: 03.29.18
‘Jesus Christ Superstar Live’ Stars Talk About Religion, Musicals, And Playing Characters From The Gospels
Reporter Michael Paulson talks to John Legend (Jesus), Brandon Victor Dixon (Judas), Sara Bareilles (Mary Magdalene), and Alice Cooper (King Herod).
Do Flashbacks In Literary Novels Even Work, Really?
Tim Parks: “Every few days, working on my new novel, my thoughts flash back to something Colm Tóibín said at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival nine months ago: that flashbacks are infuriating. Speaking at an event to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, Tóibín said Austen was marvelous because she was able to convey character and plot in the most satisfying way without the ‘clumsiness’ of the flashback. Today, on the other hand, we have to hear how a character’s parents and even grandparents met and married. Writers skip back and forth in time filling in the gaps in their shaky stories. It is dull and incompetent. Is Tóibín right? I worry, as I prepare to put together a flashback myself. Is there no merit or sense in the device? Didn’t Joyce use it? And Faulkner? Or David Lodge, for that matter? Or John Updike?”
What It’s Like to Watch ‘Isle of Dogs’ As a Japanese Speaker
Emily Yoshida: “I reached out on Twitter to a handful of native and/or fluent speakers of Japanese who saw Isle of Dogs on opening weekend … [and] what I found, even in this small sample size, was a similar dynamic I’ve seen before in debates about Asian culture as reflected by Western culture – perspectives can vary wildly between Asian-Americans and immigrated Asians, and what feels like tribute to some feels like opportunism to others.”
When Audiences Revolted Against Minimalist Music
“That night, it didn’t take long for some rather prominent coughing to break out, before the crowd let loose with less subtle forms of protest: boos and catcalls, the agitation growing over the course of the piece’s 15-plus minutes. At one point, an older woman approached the stage, took off a shoe, and banged it on the stage, imploring the ensemble—which included Reich and Tilson Thomas—to stop. Someone else sprinted down an aisle, yelling, “All right! I confess!” Other aggrieved patrons simply left.”
Uh Oh – Young People In The UK Are Watching More Netflix Than All Of BBC’s Programming
In its 2018 Annual Plan, the broadcaster has acknowledged that young people aged 16-24 in the UK are spending more time watching Netflix than all of the BBC’s programming combined, including iPlayer.
James Baldwin’s Lonely Search For New Leadership For America
While many continued to think of Baldwin as the spokesperson for a vision of ultimate cross-racial communion such as concluded The Fire Next Time, Baldwin’s speeches and essays grew increasing direct about the impossibilities of saving the United States from itself. By the time of King’s murder, Baldwin had shifted his intellectual focus mainly away from black–white reconciliation to instead undertake a no-less-difficult project: facilitating a conversation connecting younger, more radical black leaders with those of his own generation.
Will British Musicians All Have To Wear Earplugs Onstage After A New Court Ruling?
The High Court’s ruling on musicians needing protection from noise that can cause hearing loss at work may change a few things around the orchestra. “‘It effectively says an orchestral workspace is no different from a factory,’ said Mark Pemberton, director of the Association of British Orchestras.” (And in noise terms, that may be true.)
Britain Has A Problem With Dance Exams
Students aren’t supposed to have “unauthorized absences,” but what could be more authorized than students taking school-approved dance, music, theatre and other arts exams? Apparently, a lot of things. “Leaving school for a dance exam is not exceptional, it’s actually quite routine that children leave to take a dance or drama exam outside school and then come back.” But many head teachers simply don’t agree.
Stop Trying To Make Spanish-Californian Architecture ‘Mexican,’ Please
The style has its roots in colonialism, and in a place that hasn’t been Mexico for quite some time. Carolina Miranda has the story: “The architectural style known as Colonial Californiano is the story of ideas ricocheting between two cultures in unlikely ways. And it is one that leaves its mark on Mexico City to this day in the form of apartment buildings and grand private homes — neocolonial structures whose immediate design antecedents lie not in Mexico, but, ironically, in the United States.”