“We must be grateful to him for describing in a relatively orderly manner the chaos of hypocrisy and emptiness into which our globalised culture has plunged and to which we seem to have little option but to subscribe.”
Tag: 08.08.15
W.B. Yeats, The Art Teacher And An Evening At The Sexologist’s
We’re not making this up. “It’s a story that has lain hidden in a plastic bag at the back of a dusty drawer and forgotten for more than 40 years before being uncovered, alongside faded letters and old diaries – a description of an extraordinary encounter between an art teacher and WB Yeats during a debate on methods to restore sexual potency.”
Cultural Appropriation Is Wrong? Then How Does Art Evolve?
“Throughout human history, different groups coming together, for whatever reason – even in war – and catching a glimpse of the other, have ended up influencing each other. Mostly it’s for the better; sometimes it’s for the worse. If we did not eye each other up, listening in and looking at what the other is doing, there would be no substantive change in art, or in society for that matter. It’s one of the ways that culture progresses.”
Here’s Why It Isn’t Fair To Review Cumberbatch’s Hamlet While It’s In Previews
“It’s not unusual for a journalist to completely redraft an article or review, so why should it be strange to do the same to a play? Theatre is a living organism. You only know if your show is working when you see it with an audience. You can also tell when it isn’t working – it’s horrible and you desperately try to figure out how to make it connect.”
What We Do When Our Icons Tumble Or Crumble: A Field Guide
“For as long as humans have lived with symbols we have created strategies for effacing or revaluing them. Destruction is the most dramatic. But statues can also be reinstalled in less symbolically fraught places … Forgetting is a powerful force, as well … Iconoclasm can be accidental or purposeful, an act of liberation or oppression, and there’s never any guarantee that it will work.”
When Japanese Manga Started To Deal With Hiroshima And Nagasaki
“The children in the story, drawn in the typical doe-eyed style of Japanese comics, are suddenly blinded by broken glass, burned alive and maddened by pain and grief.”
Computers Have Changed The Way We Explain The World
“As yet, we have few powerful techniques for taking a computer-assisted proof or model, extracting the most important ideas, and answering conceptual questions about the proof or model. But computer-assisted explanations are so useful that they’re here to stay.”
Frank Gehry Is Focusing On The Water, Not Landmarks, For The L.A. River
“They came to see me and said they were heading up a committee for Mayor Garcetti and said we have this wonderful river, 51 miles, and that if we could brand it, give it visual coherence, it could become something special.”
Dancers Who Age But Don’t Plan To Retire – Only To Change
“I was just theorizing that the only way performing will ever make sense is if I dance until I die. If I get a little done every year, at some point I’m going to be four generations older than the children dancing. Then, I think there will be a connection.”
Exploring Bitter History Through Sweet Romance
Beverly Jenkins “says publishers liked her work, but couldn’t get their heads around a black historical novel that wasn’t based on slavery.”