“For at least a dozen years, she was ‘all-powerful, during a remarkably fertile time for stand-up comedy – the 1970s and early ’80s – when many of today’s comedy stars showed up in L.A. to go onstage at the only place that mattered.'”
Tag: 04.11.18
The New Met Museum Director’s First Two Big Challenges
When Max Hollein joins the Met he will share responsibility for running the institution with Weiss in a new power-sharing arrangement which may prove difficult to manage. Similar arrangements have proved dysfunctional at the Getty and at the Guggenheim, leading to premature departures by high-profile directors who felt interfered with or undermined. The leadership-by-committee model is in stark contrast to the Met’s hierarchy under Campbell and especially his predecessor, Philippe de Montebello, who ran the Met like a semi-divine sovereign.
Immersive Theatre Is Hot. But The Growing Pains Are… Growing
Even the term ‘immersive’ has become overused. It is being used to flog everything from fine dining to frozen roast potatoes. Some theatre companies liberally sprinkle their marketing copy with the word ‘immersive’ because they know it can add £10 to the ticket price. As Alexander Wright of the Guild of Misrule observes: “People know they can sell immersive shows. Audiences want them. But there can be a point where it stops being art and is just capitalism.”
Sebastian Smee: Aesthetics And Bad Behavior Are Difficult To Reconcile
I believe that art has its own life, independent of the people who make it. And I know that artists are, at least as much as the rest of us, complex creatures. I don’t enjoy damning anyone. I am an art critic, not an ethics panel. I only want to register my dismay.
Lithuanian Government Proposes Law To Ban Books That “Distort” History
Whereas several Eastern European countries have laws that limit free speech about the Holocaust, including Poland, Ukraine and Latvia, the bill targeting the sale of critical books “would be, if passed into law, one of the most blatant and harshest of them all,” said Holocaust historian Efraim Zuroff, who co-authored Our People with Rūta Vanagaite, a best-selling novelist.
Reclaiming Disabilities To Extend A Dance Form
The crew defines “ill-ability” as “creating advantages from disadvantages” and “an adaptation of power, strength and creativity.” It’s clear from the video what they mean: The crew isn’t just breaking, they’re pushing the form by tapping into what makes them different.
That Dance Between Writers And Editors
“When I think about the writers and books I have worked with, it’s the dialogue about shape that I most remember. A draft of a story in which a kind of sonic boom goes off at the beginning demands an answering boom at the end. Or: Rather than trying to launch six complicated characters at the outset, how about introducing them one by one, like a juggler putting balls into the air?”
Regulators Want To Know How Elite Colleges Choose Who Gets In. They Might Not Like The Answers
Outsiders have long been curious how admissions decisions are made. Most of the time this desire for transparency stems from a desire for fairness: Given how few acceptances elite institutions can offer, admitting any group of students almost always means excluding a much larger group that is just as qualified. So the unfortunate truth that investigators and the public may discover after peering into the black box of college admissions is that there are few, if any, procedures for deciding who gets in that would be perceived as fair.
The Entire Idea Of ‘VARK’ Learning Styles Seems To Be A Myth
“VARK, which stands for ‘Visual, Auditory, Reading, and Kinesthetic,’ sorts students into those who learn best visually, through aural or heard information, through reading, or through ‘kinesthetic’ experiences. … Experts aren’t sure how the concept spread, but it might have had something to do with the self-esteem movement of the late ’80s and early ’90s. Everyone was special – so everyone must have a special learning style, too. … [But] a lot of evidence suggests that people aren’t really one certain kind of learner or another.”
Actors Equity Calls For Two New Tony Award Categories
“Equity is proposing two awards, one for the best ensemble – which it defined as the entire cast – in a musical or play, and one for the best chorus – which it defined as a group that sings or dances, or both – in a musical or play.”