“In the ruckus surrounding the Mariinsky production of Boris Godunov, Russians seem to have forgotten that the subject of protest has been taken on by some of the most prominent Moscow theatres for years. Many provocative productions have been staged by a young, punkish director named Kirill Serebrennikov.”
Tag: 06.04.12
If Someone Pirates Content, Should You Wreck The Road They Took To Do It?
That’s the argument that Big Content seems to be making to the technology community.
But What If The Forgery Is Better?…
The skill of the forger surely should be taken into account. And the skill it takes to create (recreate?) great art is surely worth something in its own right…
You’ll See The London Symphony Orchestra At The Olympics, But You Won’t Hear It
Actually, you will hear the musicians – on a recording they made six weeks ago, to which they must mime during the opening ceremonies for the London Olympics.
Rereading Kurt Vonnegut As A Grown-Up
“[The] syllabus of adolescent male samizdat … used to go like this: Mad magazine at 13, Vonnegut at 15, Salinger at 17, Hunter Thompson at 18, Kerouac at 20. (When you got real big, you read Kundera.)” William Deresiewicz returned to Vonnegut’s novels at age 48. “Some of them are worse than I remembered, but some of them are even better.”