Thomas Beller writes about “Internet Noise,” a piece of software that will load your history with countless randomly generated search requests – the idea being that your real history will be drowned within all the “noise.” Brilliant? Or quixotic? (Quixotic, we’re afraid.)
Tag: 04.04.17
The Latest Plan For An Art Museum In Las Vegas
Columnist Carol Cling: “Seems we’ve heard this song before. Not that Las Vegas’ cultural boosters could ever ignore the siren call of a major local art museum. At least the folks behind the latest attempt – the backers of the proposed Art Museum at Symphony Park – seem to be doing the right things.”
Scotland To Get Its First-Ever (!) Dedicated Dance Theatre
Former English National Ballet director Peter Schaufuss has teamed up with video game tycoon Leslie Benzies (Grand Theft Auto) to buy a historic but disused church in Edinburgh and turn it into a venue for both local and international touring companies.
Joffrey Ballet Archives Go To Lincoln Center
Film and documents “are among the highlights from the Joffrey’s archive, which has been donated to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts’s Jerome Robbins Dance Division. The gift coincided with the company’s return to New York for the first time last week since it moved to Chicago in the mid-1990s.”
How We Describe Buildings – Emotion Over Ideas?
“Architects tend to imitate the language of their clients and critics because they themselves are visual, visceral people for whom the thing itself and not a description of it is the dominant motivator. It has always been like that: the architects of the gothic revival spoke passionately in terms of morality and truth because that was the terminology the church-builders who employed them wanted to hear.”
500 UK Music Leaders Sign Letter Of Protest To The Guardian Newspaper
Almost 500 music leaders have signed a letter decrying the “anti-intellectualism” of a recently published Guardian feature, which argued children are “locked out” by overly academic music lessons.
The Dictionary And Its Rockstar Tweet Commentary Of Trump’s Words
“This once-staid outfit — who buys a dictionary anymore? — has earned itself a large and devoted following on social media, and no wonder: Trump is literally being trolled by the dictionary.”
20 Years Of Moth Stories
The Moth was founded in 1997 by the writer George Dawes Green — its name comes from his memories of growing up in St. Simons Island, Ga., where neighbors would gather late at night on a friend’s porch to tell stories and drink bourbon as moths flew in through the broken screens and circled the porch light. It has since grown into what its artistic director, Catherine Burns, calls “a modern storytelling movement” that has inspired “tens of thousands of shows worldwide in places as diverse as Tajikistan, Antarctica, and Birmingham, Ala.”
Joffrey Ballet’s Archives Find A Permanent Home
575 linear feet of material has been donated to the dance division at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, on the grounds of Lincoln Center.
What I Learned As A Music Critic
Sarah Cahill: “Composers and musicians need validation, but more than that, they need to feel their work is understood. I see that hunger when guests come on my radio show and talk about themselves, and I hear it from friends who throw everything they have – emotionally and financially and professionally – into a big new project, only to have it vanish into the ether without a trace. We’re all grateful for the excellent music critics in this country, but still miss the freedom and the space they once had, as we miss the daily ritual of reading a beautifully crafted music review.”