Facebook inventor Mark Zuckerberg’s “version of the internet is profoundly blue, bluer than any internet before, for a reason he didn’t realize was personal until long after the decision was made.”
Tag: 06.27.14
Spike Lee On The Black Audience
“I understand that the black audience is not monolithic. There are many different types of films that black people want and I’ve never had a feeling that all my films would appeal to all black people. Never, ever, ever.”
This Isn’t A Fake, It’s A Real 16th-Century Medici Portrait That Was ‘Tarted Up’
“A painting that was ‘targeted for removal’ from the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh won a last-minute reprieve after a technical examination determined that it was not a ‘modern fake’, but a 16th-century Florentine portrait that was significantly ‘tarted up’ in the 19th century.”
Opera Isn’t In Trouble, It’s Just In An Awkward Phase
“Opera ain’t what it used to be. More to the point, opera companies aren’t what they used to be. The art form is not standing still. It’s growing, uncontrollably, by leaps and messy bounds,” writes Mark Swed – who argues that the problems at U.S. opera’s flagship, the Met, are more about the Met than the art form, and that the controversy over The Death of Klinghoffer demonstrates opera’s innate power.
ARTnews Sold To New Owner That’s Now Called ARTnews
“The venerated New York art magazine that has had a tough time in recent years adapting to digital media … will become part of Abbey House Group, a Polish art and media company. Abbey House will take on the name ARTnews starting July 1.”
These Young Actors Perform 52 Plays In 5 And A Half Hours – For Free
“The actors playing [big-name characters] off Off Broadway, at the Flea Theater in TriBeCa, are not famous — but they’re young, hopeful and ravenous enough about performing to do it free.”
Solving A Literary Mystery That Involved A Dark Night, Snow, And A Train
“For many writers, research is a big yawn. The past is a foreign country, and who cares how they do things differently there? Research is reading disintegrating papers in dusty libraries; sifting through shoe boxes in ancient attics; interviewing people who don’t know when to stop talking.”
What ‘Harry Potter’ Author J.K. Rowling Really Thinks Of The Publishing Industry
“Rowling’s point seems to be that this is a culture narrowly interbred. It’s also one of ego-maniacs. And the writers, or would-be writers, are the worst of the batch.”
Got A Problem On Broadway? Call The Arranger
“He has shape-shifted alongside Eric Idle on ‘Spamalot,’ John Kander on ‘The Scottsboro Boys,’ and Matt Stone, Trey Parker and Bobby Lopez on ‘Mormon,’ for which he did dance arrangements only (though that assignment included the chance to write a spiky, Metallica-inspired guitar solo for the Devil in ‘Spooky Mormon Hell Dream’).”
The Agony Of Basic Acting Class
“Frances has done what the rest of us have been trying to do all semester: cry during a performance, a kind of truth we’ve learned can only be achieved when an actor is connected to his or her body, an idea I pretend to understand but don’t.”