“Reynold Levy made about $7,000 each weekday as president of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art, earned about the same, $1.8 million in 2011.”
Tag: 07.10.13
Is Cynicism Underrated?
“Of course, cynicism is neither wholly good nor bad. It’s easy to see how you can be too cynical, but it’s also possible to be not cynical enough.”
Hirshhorn Museum Loses Board Chair For Second Time In A Year
“In a strongly worded letter obtained by The Washington Post, Constance Caplan painted a picture of a board, a museum and the larger Smithsonian Institution roiled by a lack of transparency, trust, vision and good faith.”
Of Dance, Freedom, And Fundamentalism
Deposed Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi seemed to have a special animus against dance in general and ballet in particular; members of his Muslim Brotherhood had been forcibly breaking up dance performances. Islamic fundamentalists (not unlike their Christian counterparts) usually disapprove of the entire genre. Yet women in some Muslim countries have used dancing as a vehicle for protest and a means of personal liberation.
Why Warner Bros. Is Picking A Fight With Harvey Weinstein Over A Generic Movie Title
“Everyone knows that you can’t copyright a title (except in Germany) … which is why the dispute between the Weinstein Company and Warner Bros. over the title of the forthcoming film The Butler (scheduled for release on August 16th) is so surprising.”
The Book That Will Destroy Any Link In Your Mind Between Boozing And Great Writing
Charles Jackson’s The Lost Weekend “terrorized several early readers, all of them writers and all drinkers. ‘I hate the goddam book almost as much as I hate my own inflamed conscience,’ wrote the novelist William Seabrook.”
Guillermo Del Toro’s Problem With Most Special-Effects Shots
“Normally, every FX shot looks like a cool shot. You go out the window, the character’s drinking some wine. You go out the window, you go around the block, into the next tower, out of the tower, into an airplane passing by, and you’re in the lap of a passenger in first class. And all you’re telling them is ‘cool shot, is that real?'”
Do Dogs Think? (Is This Headline Click-Bait?)
Barbara J. King: “Doing a radio interview recently, though, I was reminded that some dog owners are still convinced that dogs don’t think, but instead act on instinct and live tethered to the present, in a moment-to-moment way.”
Sergei Polunin Doesn’t Think Ballet Is Cool (Is That Why He Keeps Running Away?)
“If I had the choice I’d be a boxer or a footballer. Being a ballet dancer isn’t cool. Football, boxing, hockey – they’re cool. And you make more money.”
Meet The Man Behind The Dickens-Dostoevsky Hoax
“When writer AD Harvey invented an 1862 meeting between Dickens and Dostoevsky, it was for years accepted as fact. So why did he do it – and why did he also create a series of fake academic identities?”