“The Prancing Elites hail from Mobile, Alabama, and they’re a forceful reminder that in the era of ‘just do you,’ it can be a radical – even dangerous – proposition to do just that. Wherever they go, the Elites, as they often call themselves, arouse visceral reactions from local residents, of both disgust and admiration.” (includes video)
Tag: 05.08.15
Electra’s Sorrow And Rage, Explored In Cabaret
“Each major character in Ann Liv Young’s Elektra Cabaret tries to break the tragedy with a different emotional code. All of us at times react sorrowfully like the wounded Elektra, cruelly like the controlling mother Klytemnestra, vindictively like the raging prodigal son Orestes, or vacuously like the denying younger sister Chrysothemis.”
The Eight Styles Of Prom Book Covers
“Visa recently estimated that the average family will spend more than $900 on prom — and a third of that is just for something called the ‘promposal.’ The ways of young people may be past all comprehension, but the ways of book marketing are not.”
Technology Kills The BBC’s Performing Arts Fund
“Launching as the Fame Academy Bursary, it supported more than 1200 individuals in the performing arts.
Beneficiaries have included global singing sensation Adele, composer Mark Simpson and the Bristol Old Vic.”
Houston Symphony Adds Four String Players Primarily For Bilingual Outreach
“The four new musicians will concentrate on community engagement and music education in area schools, neighborhood centers and health-care facilities. They also will perform about 25 concerts a year with the symphony.”
The Turbulent Emotional State Of Being A Writer
“Euphoria is probably the best word to describe how an author feels when the writing goes well. Most of the time, however, the writing is hard, sometimes impossible. The terrifying sense that the creative process is always out of your control — or perhaps that it actually isn’t, in which case the hard-to-impossible stretches are a reflection of your immense shortcomings as a writer — takes a psychological toll.”
One Way To Get People Interested In Your Museum: Create Game Of Thrones Recaps From The Art
“Getty Media producer Sarah Waldorf and manuscripts curator Bryan Keene have been rolling out recaps of Season Five on the museum’s Tumblr, telling each week’s narrative through items and imagery from its collection of medieval art. The result is a brilliantly fun tour of art and a unique analysis of the real historical inspirations for scenes and settings of the show.”
To Combat Any Decline In Print Books, You Just Need Pop Stars And Video Games
“Sales of children’s books rose 11 per cent to £349 million, making 2014 the most successful year for the genre since 2007, when JK Rowling’s final Harry Potter book was released.”
Spoiled For Choice: 15 Different European Opera Houses Start Streaming Productions … For Free
“The operas — from 15 presenters including the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House in London and the Aix-en-Provence Festival — will be streamed live on the website of the Opera Platform, at www.theoperaplatform.eu. The site said that subtitles in six languages would be available, and each opera would remain available on demand for six months.”
An Art Critic And An Architecture Critic Discuss What MoMA Got Right In – And What It Left Out Of – The Latin American Architecture Show
“I was weirdly moved to see the original model for Brasilia by Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa. In our day and age of fancy digital fly-throughs and massive 3-D printed models, there is something touchingly small and hand-made about this model: the Cathedral looks as if it could have been rendered out of toothpicks and the grass appears to be made from some sort of felt.”