“ASL signers say that they spend much more time thinking about and dealing with language than most Americans, resulting in a rich and independent tradition of Deaf language arts – literature, theater, journalism. Deaf people have their own clubs, their own rituals, their own places of worship, their own newspapers, their own sense of humor.”
Tag: 05.23.11
Are Women Who Hate Philip Roth Blinded By Feminist Ideology? (Nope.)
Laura Miller: “Yet if you [find Roth’s novels insufferable], and you happen to be a woman, chances are excellent that – no matter what you say – Roth proponents will assume your aversion is based in politics. This is as frustrating as telling the chef you don’t care for lamb chops and getting a self-righteous lecture on his supplier’s humane farming practices.”
Kitchen-Sink Drama In Actual Kitchens
“Now theatre, too, is moving into ordinary people’s homes, making a literal reality of kitchen-sink and drawing-room drama. In fact I’ve spent so much of this year’s Brighton fringe being marched round residential backstreets to watch pieces staged in people’s [homes] that I’m beginning to feel like I’m flat-hunting.”
Researchers Help Robots Create Their Own Spoken Language
“Australian researchers are teaching a pair of robots to communicate linguistically like humans by inventing new spoken words, a lexicon that the roboticists can teach to other robots to generate an entirely new language.”
Study: Musicians’ Brains Are Superior
“New research shows that musicians’ brains are highly developed in a way that makes the musicians alert, interested in learning, disposed to see the whole picture, calm, and playful. The same traits have previously been found among world-class athletes, top-level managers, and individuals who practice transcendental meditation.”
Where Should New York City Opera Go? Readers Chime In
The New York Times solicits readers’ ideas about where the company should perform once it leaves Lincoln Center. Suggestions so far include the expected (NY City Center, BAM), the unlikely (a vintage 3,000-seat movie theater in Flushing, Queens), and the intriguing (the Hammerstein Ballroom, originally an opera house where Mary Garden and Tetrazzini sang).
The Lost Bob Dylan Interview (He Admitted To Heroin Habit)
“After a concert late one Saturday night in March 1966 Bob Dylan, while on tour in the US, boarded his private plane in Lincoln, Nebraska bound for Denver with his friend Robert Shelton. Over the next two hours Shelton taped an interview with Dylan which he later described as a ‘kaleidoscopic monologue’.”
Lorin Maazel At 81
“To be honest I don’t look back with great satisfaction at all the various people I’ve been over the decades,” he says. “In fact I often shake my head in dismay at the immaturity and puerile view of life and have the greatest compassion for young people who are going through these same stages.”
“Community-Supported-Art” Programs Sell Shares In Art
“CSArt, a new project of the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, is modeled on a wildly popular Minnesota art CSA, which has inspired groups in Chicago and Frederick, Md., to create their versions. And some glassmakers in Burlington, Vt., independently adopted the CSA form last year.”
US Director Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” Wins Cannes’ Top Prize
“Best actor award went to French performer Jean Dujardin for the silent film The Artist and Best actress went to actress Kirsten Dunst for her role in the apocalyptic psychodrama Melancholia.”