“Up to 60 students are pursuing the University of Sydney for ‘deceptive conduct- after it announced plans to merge its Sydney College of the Arts with the faculty of art and design at cross-town rival the University of [New South Wales].”
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When An Artist Burns His Work, It’s A Violent Act, Meaning What, Exactly?
“There are numerous examples of governments and institutions putting books into bonfires, but they are still actions of external protest and censure. When writers burn their own manuscripts, they are destroying their own words. Cathartic, but also a bit sadistic. Burning is a slow, ritualistic death. Why not simply throw away a manuscript?”
The Playwright Wrote A Play About Her Mother, Peter Pan
“The first year we did it, the flying wasn’t very good. You passed across the stage a couple feet above the floor, and it was very painful. The harness cut into your legs, and they padded us with Kotex to try and make it feel better.”
What’s Going To Happen To The Twin Cities’ Floating Theatre Boat?
“In an arrangement with more twists than the melodramas U students stage on the showboat each summer, the 225-seat theater is owned by the U, attached to a dock and walkway owned by the city of St. Paul and managed by Padelford Riverboats, which operates tourist excursion boats nearby.”
How John Hughes Faked Us Into Thinking His Movies (And The Women In Them) Were Progressive
“Thirty years on, however, we’ve dropped the rose-coloured glasses, and our response to realizing he sold us out to suburbia echoes Molly Ringwald’s response in Vanity Fair when he dropped her once she grew out of it. ‘It was very hurtful and it still hurts.'”
Kids And Teenagers Can Make Startlingly Good Theatre – If Only They Have The Chance
“Like women on Reclaim the Night marches, the mere presence of these girls on stage reminds us that it is not women’s freedom (to be themselves, to dress as they want) that should be curtailed, but rather the prurient way that they are perceived. What’s required is a shift in perception: a piece of hair twirled or teeth biting a lip is not an invitation to something else.”
How Is Art Looted By The British Empire Different From Art Looted By Nazis?
“Museums, auction houses and collectors feel free to ignore non-European groups who ask for the repatriation of their artworks. Indeed, some commentators even attack such requests.”
The Deeply Sincere Performance Art Of Yankee Candle
“There’s a year-round Bavarian Christmas village (a village within the Village) that’s showered with fake snow every four minutes and has a toy shop with a resident Santa who refuses to break character. Yankee Candle Village is the epitome of sensory overload.”
Fifth-Century Mosaics Of Bible Scenes Found In Ancient Synagogue
“Archaeologists excavating a Roman-era synagogue at the site of Huqoq, Israel, have uncovered two new panels of a mosaic floor with instantly identifiable subjects – Noah’s ark, and the parting of the Red Sea during the Israelite exodus from Egypt.”
How William Shawn Built The New Yorker Into A Literary Institution
“The sheer proliferation of advertising demanded that Shawn scramble in search of more and more editorial matter. This, he found, had an inevitable drag on quality. There is, in this world, after all, only so much talent at a given time—only so much good writing. At a certain point, he found it necessary to limit the pages in a weekly issue to 248—as fat as a phone book in some towns. In his tenure as editor, Shawn made innumerable hires, tried out countless freelancers, and ran long, multipart series—some forgettable, some central to the literary and journalistic history of mid-century America.”