“As poets with performance backgrounds rise through the ranks of poetry print culture, American poetry appears caught between a fear of performance and a celebration of it. As these page + stage poets become more prominent in universities, journals, and reading series, are they helping to renew conversations about performance as an aspect of making poems?”
Tag: 07.09.14
OK, So What’s A LORT?
Unless you’re a theatre junkie, you might not know that hiding behind the acronym is a nationwide organization of almost 75 theatres in all major cities (and many other cities) across the U.S. And oh hey? They pay their actors.
LACMA Wants To Build A Skyscraper (And Maybe Be A Real Estate Mini-Mogul)
“Museum officials envision the tower, rising above a planned Metropolitan Transportation Authority subway station at Wilshire and Orange Grove Avenue, as having a hotel and condominiums. It would also contain LACMA galleries, including a new architecture and design wing and, potentially, architect Frank Gehry’s archives.”
Is This British Theatre’s Top Auteur? (And Is That Why She’s Working In Germany?)
Katie Mitchell: “It may be that the work I make is at times too ‘other’ and so won’t always fit tidily into mainstream culture in the UK. That sense of other could be to do with gender, or intellectualism, or wanting to experiment with form, or simply a feeling of Europeanism. I don’t know.”
Baltimore Symphony Names Markus Stenz Principal Guest Conductor
“The German conductor, who is principal conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, made a sensational BSO debut in 2012.”
Amazon Proposes Giving Authors 100 Percent Of Sales In Dispute With Hachette
The retailer suggested that both Amazon and Hachette forgo “all revenue and profit from the sale of every ebook until an agreement is reached”, saying this might “take authors out of the middle of the Hachette-Amazon dispute (actually it would be a big windfall for authors) and would motivate both Hachette and Amazon to work faster to resolve the situation”.
A Neuroscience-based Music App That Says It Will Boost Your Brain Power 400 Percent
“The app’s premise is that it usually takes us time to focus because of the distracting effect of the environment. Their music has apparently been carefully engineered to reduce this distracting effect. The tunes go through “phase sequences” to ensure that they are neither too relaxing, nor too distracting.”
Creative Placemaking Or Gentrification?
Today in Los Angeles where businesses, developers, museums, and city governance are changing the reception and application of community grown initiatives, I’ve found a similar question worth asking, “Is creative practice gentrifying creative practice?”
What’s Happened To Arts Journalism? Going, Going…
“That art and culture are falling off the organized news media’s map certainly is an affront to those who know and cherish their value, because it translates to a judgment from publishers and content providers that the arts are less worthy of public attention than what else sadly passes for news. Worse, though, in time it has potential to become victim to a self-fulfilling prophecy if everyday people have less access to art and culture, and eventually less incentive to find it.”
Shakespeare In The Parking Lot May Be Out Of Parking Spaces
“Its casual, bare-bones shows downtown contrast with the bigger-budget Shakespeare in the Park, which the Public Theater produces in Central Park. Shakespeare in the Parking Lot patrons sit on folding chairs or the ground.”