“It is no coincidence that many of the buildings in the first exhibition on architecture in Antarctica, shaped like caterpillars or icebergs, on stilts or stubby legs, will look like science-fiction illustrations – the storms, blizzards, extremes of temperature, darkness and howling winds they have been designed to withstand are so extreme that conditions have been likened to those on Mars.”
Tag: 05.21.13
Lincoln Center Sued Over Public Access To Park
“A lawsuit has been filed against New York City and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts accusing them of limiting public access to Damrosch Park by using it for commercial purposes, including Fashion Week, for as many as 10 months of the year.”
Hear The Voice Of Virginia Woolf
“What follows is the only known surviving recording of Virginia Woolf, part of a BBC radio broadcast from 1937. The talk is titled ‘Craftsmanship’.”
James Franco On Adapting Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying
“When [the characters are] speaking to each other, they speak as early-20th-century farmers. It’s fairly realistic. But underneath, in the inner monologues, … they speak in ways that these characters would never articulate. … Maybe they could feel as deeply but they would never use this diction. So we came up with was the split-screen: that would give the feeling of multiple perspectives.”
In Spain, A Protest Opera Against Austerity
El crepusculo del ladrillo (“Twilight of the Brick”, alluding to the final opera of Wagner’s Ring cycle) “takes on Spain’s ongoing economic crisis, which started to unfold in 2008 after the country’s real estate bubble burst. The story involves a village seduced into property ownership and consumerism before imploding in chaos. Despite the tragic subject matter, the tone is surrealist and often comic.”
The Battalion Of Artists That Tricked The Wehrmacht
The soldiers of the “Ghost Army” were “artists and illustrators, radio people and sound guys. Handpicked for the job from New York and Philadelphia art schools in January 1944, their mission was to deceive the enemy with hand-made inflatable tanks, 500-pound speakers blasting the sounds of troops assembling and phony radio transmissions.”
Has New Music Been Wrongly Marketed?
“The new music community needs to make less of an emphasis on premieres and put more energy into making less familiar repertoire (e.g. recent compositions) more familiar by programming the music tons of times. A new piece should get programmed several times during the course of a season, not just one time or for a single consecutive run of performances.”
Stephen King Passes On E-Publishing For Print
“I have no plans for a digital version. Maybe at some point, but in the meantime, let people stir their sticks and go to an actual bookstore rather than a digital one.”
Can A Dance Summit Help Fix LA’s Dance Scene?
“We’re really trying to aim this not as a way to bemoan issues that the dance community might be encountering, but really to look at what opportunities there are, to haul out the good things that might be under-recognized, as well as to provide ways we can respectively climb out of our foxholes.”
Isn’t It Time To Recognize Great Women Architects?
“Female architects don’t often attract the attention of the Pritzker jury. Of the Pritzker’s 37, only two were women, Zaha Hadid, of the U.K., and Kazuyo Sejima, of Japan.”