“I’ll venture to say dance audiences are better behaved than other crowds because they’re more immersed in the show. They’re not as distractible. That feeling you have, when a dancer leaps lightly across the stage and you’re carried along with her — that’s your brain, your whole sensorimotor system, responding sympathetically to another human body in motion.”
Tag: 04.29.15
Charlie Hebdo Cartoonist Says He Will No Longer Draw The Prophet Muhammad
“Muhammad ‘no longer interests me,’ Rénald Luzier, who works under the name Luz, said in an interview with the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles … ‘I’ve gotten tired of it, just as I got tired of drawing Sarkozy.'”
‘Embarrassing And Unprofessional’: Critic Says Wall Text At New Whitney Museum Willfully Misrepresents Him
An angry Christopher Knight: “Being misquoted is one thing, but being completely misrepresented in an art museum wall text is quite another – especially when something I wrote more than 20 years ago is used as a slur concocted from the direct opposite of my critical opinion.”
How Hollywood Keeps Women Out Of Directors’ And Producers’ Chairs
“At top U.S. film schools, women and men are almost equally represented. … Yet between the day these women graduate and the day, a few years later, that their male college peers begin showing up in film credits, most women filmmakers vanish into obscurity.” Here’s a look at the ways it happens.
Sussing Out The Tony Nominations With Charles McNulty
“If an overarching narrative exists, it’s willfully postmodern. … Stare long enough into the chaos, however, and a few patterns, can be divined.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.29.15
Approaching Justice & Democracy (in Beauty Class)
AJBlog: Jumper Published 2015-04-29
Can’t Buy Me Love
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-04-29
GPS Lady
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-04-29
Tralalalala
AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2015-04-29
The Frank Strazzeri Film
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-04-28
Handel for hipsters: Revolution or red herring?
AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published 2015-04-27
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Little Hope Of Saving Nepal’s Treasures
“In many places, the detritus of centuries-old temples and palaces has been left unguarded, diminishing chances to eventually rebuild one of the world’s largest clusters of cultural heritage sites.”
A List Of The World’s Top Art Collectors
“Our roster of collectors features those who have been most active within the past 12 months and have shown a remarkable commitment to collecting.”
The Bible Has Gone From (Super) Hot To Not In The Western Art World
“There seems to be no end to the creativity the Bible engenders – which makes it a crying shame the Museum of Biblical Art has to close, and a tragedy if we cannot acknowledge one of the great sources of modern culture.”
The End Times Are At Hand For New York’s Museum Of Biblical Art
“The small, secular museum, which is dedicated to exploring the Bible’s influence on Western art, is a casualty of Manhattan’s astronomical rents. For the past decade, the museum had been renting space inside the American Bible Society (ABS) building near Lincoln Center for $1 a year. In February, ARS announced it had sold the building and planned to move to Philadelphia.”