“If artists are leaving in droves, why? Massachusetts consistently ranks in the country’s top 10 for arts funding, so why does its capital have a reputation for lacking a contemporary art scene?”
Tag: 08.15.12
A Rousing Defense Of Critics
“The sad truth about the book world is that it doesn’t need more yes-saying novelists and certainly no more yes-saying critics. We are drowning in them. What we need more of, now that newspaper book sections are shrinking and vanishing like glaciers, are excellent and authoritative and punishing critics — perceptive enough to single out the voices that matter for legitimate praise, abusive enough to remind us that not everyone gets, or deserves, a gold star.”
Since When Did It Become Illegal To Take Pictures In Public?
“Since 9/11, there’s been an incredible number of incidents where photographers are being interfered with and arrested for doing nothing other than taking pictures or recording video in public places.”
An Arts Colony For Seniors
“The Burbank Senior Artists Colony is remarkable. Opened in 2005, it is a mix of market-rate and low-income apartments. The building looks like an upscale hotel but is built for the arts, with studios, a video editing room, a theater and classrooms. Residents may arrive with no previous artistic experience or skill as an artist — but artists they become.”
Angelin Preljocaj On Choosing Dancers
“It’s like a bouquet of flowers. In some companies you’ll only find tulips, they might be yellow or red, but they’re still tulips, because the choreographer has an idea of what the bodies performing their work should look like. But my company is a bouquet of lots of things – tulips, roses, even thorns. Their bodies are very different, not just their personalities, there are tall girls, short girls, big boys, thin boys, and I like that.”
Berlin’s Hipster Shakespeare In The Park
Launched last summer, Shakespeare im Park Berlin takes place in Görlitzer Park “in the heart of the alternative scene, multi-ethnic Kreuzberg, an increasingly trendy district in the throes of gentrification.” Longtime locals saw the bilingual troupe as the enemy, though this year the actors are welcomed as regulars.
Remembering Julia Child At 100
“[She] is one of those rare stars who is somehow better in reality than in the popular imagination. No matter how many times one hears about how charismatic, how natural and unembarrassed, or how funny and charming she was, seeing Julia onscreen or hearing her talk about food always surpasses those expectations – she’s so perfectly Julia every time.”
Julia Child And Learning How To Eat
“We have all heard Julia say ‘I just hate health food,’ and that diet food was what one ate while waiting for the steak. But she also said, in the same theoretical if not literal breath ‘You must have discipline to have fun’. That is what it means to learn to eat.”
Atlanta Symphony Musicians To Management: We’ll Take Pay Cuts If You Do
“Atlanta Symphony Orchestra musicians have offered to cut their compensation by 11 percent to help balanced the organization’s annual budget, but there is a catch: They want the ASO staff to take an equal cut.”
Radio Free Cherokee: Reviving Native American Languages Over The Airwaves
“Congress’s passage of the Community Radio Act in 2011 means that community radio stations could soon … ‘mushroom,’ which offers a lot of potential for Native American media on reservations, where there is usually little infrastructure.”