Tag: 06.07.18

Apparently, We Like Poetry A Lot More During Times Of, Ahem, Historical Trauma

Here’s the breakdown: “According to new NEA findings, in the past five years, the number of poetry readers in the United States has almost doubled to a total of 28 million adults. This is the highest number the NEA has seen since 2002. The largest increase in poetry readership in the past five years has come from young people ages 18–24 and African American, Asian American, and other non-white readers.”

Self Awareness Versus Self Esteem

Humble people don’t focus on their flaws – not exactly, anyway. It’s more that humble people don’t focus on themselves very much at all. ‘This is not to say that a humble person fails to care about her own welfare or pursue her own interests – it is simply that she sees these as being deeply intertwined with the welfare and interests of others,’ write the authors of a 2017 paper in The Journal of Positive Psychology.

New York Times Declares Cincinnati An Arts Mecca

Jada Yuan: “What I’d failed to pick up from those gauzy recollections [from my college freshman roommate], though, was just how vibrant and inspiring of an arts scene I would find. … This time around, I got to dig deep on the wealth of murals in public spaces; an architectural history to make your jaw drop; and three newly renovated, world-class performing arts venues in a roughly four-block radius.”

Milwaukee Symphony Ups Its Fundraising Goal For New Home

The symphony runs an operating deficit at the Marcus Center mainly because the orchestra’s performance schedule must compete with other events. Those include the Broadway at the Marcus Center series and performances by Milwaukee Ballet and Florentine Opera. In its new performance hall, the orchestra will play more dates and have more favorable dates, including holiday season slots. It will be able to schedule more high-profile guest artists and earn rental revenue by hosting other concerts.

Alejandro González Iñárritu Makes A Virtual-Reality Film About Refugees Meeting The U.S. Border Patrol

“Carne y Arena belongs to the same category of gallery-quality, conceptual installations as the Rain Room or the Museum of Ice Cream — but it’s a world apart from either. It’s an anti-spectacle: The piece can’t be shared on Instagram, even though it is more immersive, and more substantive, than anything else in its class.” Kriston Capps reports.

Fosse And de Mille – An Odd Turn Of Legacy

Why does de Mille’s choreography seem so dated now, while Fosse’s still looks as fresh and provocative as ever? It’s particularly puzzling considering that de Mille was the more revolutionary of the two. She created a startling new approach to integrating dance into the musical via character development, and established the standard for the widely imitated (and later much-parodied) “dream ballet,” an expressionistic choreographic sequence probing deep into characters’ psyches. Fosse’s great contribution to Broadway dance, on the other hand, is largely limited to his creation of a compelling physical vocabulary,

Studs Terkel, On The Page And On The Air

“The books deliberately avoid interviews with celebrities. Terkel wanted to talk with ‘ordinary people’ — to show that there are no ordinary people. … The radio programs, by contrast, despite his occasional trips, dealt mainly with people of extraordinary abilities or achievements, and especially with show business eminences, whether in music, theater, literature, or other arts. Chicago has its own famous acting, singing, and writing accomplishments, but it is also a crossroads where famous people came to perform — and Studs dearly loved a performance. His politics made him celebrate noncelebrities, but his heart always tugged him toward the footlights.”

Photojournalist David Douglas Duncan Dead At 102

“[He] was widely considered one of the finest photojournalists of the 20th century. In Life magazine photo essays, television specials and about two dozen books, he captured the seemingly incongruous subjects of war and art, traveling from the front lines of battle to the treasure troves of the Kremlin in Moscow and the French studio of Pablo Picasso.”

Three Boston Review Poetry Editors Resign Because Magazine Won’t Fire Junot Díaz

“Three poetry editors at The Boston Review announced their intent to resign on Tuesday, citing disagreements with the magazine’s executive editors over their decision to retain Junot Díaz as fiction editor … Díaz, who received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, has been accused by multiple women of verbal abuse and sexual harassment.”