Following the Second World War, with the relocation of the world’s artistic epicenter from Paris to New York, a different kind of war was waged in the pages of magazines across the country. As part of the larger “culture wars” of the mid-century, art critics began to take on greater influence than they’d ever held before.
Tag: 06.14.17
Latest Return To Analog: A Surge In Interest In Typewriters
From public “type-ins” at bars to street poets selling personalized, typewritten poems on the spot, typewriters have emerged as popular items with aficionados hunting for them in thrift stores, online auction sites and antique shops. Some buy antique Underwoods to add to a growing collection. Others search for a midcentury Royal Quiet De Luxe — like a model author Ernest Hemingway used — to work on that simmering novel.
Thrilling, Disorienting Light: A Walk Through James Turrell’s Installations In Mass MoCA’s New Expansion
“The exhibition brings together light installations from every stage of the career of this 74-year-old artist and elder statesman of the Southern California Light and Space movement, from what appears to be a levitating cube (a projection of buttery light in the corner of the gallery) to a series of holographic images that seem to contain three-dimensional wisps of light.”
How Sex Gets Manufactured And Orchestrated On Shows Like ‘Bachelor In Paradise’: A Producer Explains
“On a show like Bachelor in Paradise, the drunken hook-up is the coin of the realm. Even on shows less romantic than the Bachelor franchise, producers plan dalliances in preproduction. … In initial interviews, producers ask cast members whom they’re attracted to, then base their soft-scripted story lines on mutual attractions. Once on set, they gently encourage paired cast members to drop their inhibitions and follow their instincts.”
Is Classical:NEXT The Most Important Development In New Music?
Frank Oteri thinks so: “I’ll say unequivocally that the 2017 edition of Classical:NEXT (c:N) was the most vital music get-together I’ve participated in in the last 12 months, quite possibly even longer. And, more importantly, I think c:N has the potential to be the most viable international gathering place for open-minded music-focused people, despite its name.”
‘Cli-Fi’ – Novels, Movies, And TV Imagine The World After Climate Change
“What quicker way to make ordinary people into heroes and villains than to turn the weather against them and destroy everything they know?” Science Speculative fiction novelist Anna North looks at how works of fiction are envisioning the all-too-real possibilities of what could happen to Earth and its people as the stuff humans have been putting into the air keep accumulating.
After Backlash From Filmmakers, Sony Backs Down (Somewhat) On Its Plan To Issue ‘Clean’ Versions Of Movies
When Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced that it would create versions of its films scrubbed of profanity and adult scenes (roughly like airline versions) for home viewers, it took only four hours for the Directors Guild to remind the studio that it needed the director’s permission for each title. (Judd Apatow tweeted a profanity-filled response of his own.) Sony didn’t spend much time arguing back.
‘Indecent’ Is Closing On Broadway; Bitter Playwright Blames Ben Brantley And Jesse Green
Paula Vogel tweeted, “Brantley&Green 2-0. Nottage&Vogel 0-2. Lynn, they help close us down” and gave the two New York Times critics the hashtag #footnotesinhistory. The “Lynn” of the tweet, Lynn Nottage, whose play Sweat is also closing its Broadway run, replied by describing Brantley and Green as “the patriarchy flexing their muscles to prove their power.”
Playwright A.R. Gurney, 86
“In his hands, the conventions of the drawing-room comedy became the framework for social analysis. … With its focus on the quirks and barely concealed anxieties of the privileged class, Mr. Gurney’s work was often likened to that of the novelist John Cheever and the playwright Philip Barry. His settings were often the stately homes of the well-to-do. His characters included self-satisfied corporate executives, crusty academics, imperious dowagers and bewildered teenagers on the cusp of adulthood.”
‘A Horse Walks Into A Bar’ Wins Man Booker International Prize
“David Grossman’s ‘ambitious high-wire act of a novel’, A Horse Walks Into a Bar, set around a standup comic’s rambling and confessional routine in an Israeli comedy club, has won the Man Booker International prize for the year’s best fiction in translation.” … Grossman, a bestselling writer of fiction, nonfiction and children’s books who has been translated into 36 languages, will share the £50,000 prize with his English translator, Jessica Cohen.”