“As [director/adapter Yael] Farber and the cast explain, Strindberg’s tale of sexual emancipation and class warfare becomes a metaphor for the new South Africa, where bitter political disputes over race and land rights still rankle, two decades after the end of apartheid.”
Tag: 08.17.12
Why Don’t Video Games Get Cultural Respect?
“Video games are often dismissed as toys, the preserve of children and nerdy, mostly male adults. Whereas other popular innovations have eventually won the critical respect accorded to more established forms – does anyone now consider cinema inferior to theatre? – games have made little headway.”
The Case For Sequels
“As readership drives itself half crazy with sampling, hypertexting and interacting, sequels say to the reader: here is continuity. Here is stability. Here is something you know — taken on a step, sure. Adapted as it’s adopted. But at a certain fundamental level, familiar.”
Crowdfunding Is Changing Digital Culture, And Vice Versa
“When Kickstarter started out it decided not to prioritise (or curate) which creations were most important. It stayed away from the term ‘art’ and spelled out its mission statement as a new way to support any kind of ‘creativity’. The public would decide what was important and increasingly their dollars are veering away from art to invention. A profound shift is under way – from the aesthetic to the interactive.”
Andrew Upton Stays On At Helm Of Sydney Theatre Co. (Without Cate Blanchett)
“Upton’s appointment took theatre-watchers by surprise because he and Blanchett were due to step down from STC at the end of next year. … Upton will take the reins as artistic director from January 1 and Blanchett’s official role will taper off.”
‘Your Choice Is To Dance Or Pick Up A Gun’: A Company Springs From Rio’s Favelas
“Compagnie Kafig [is] a blast of hip-hop energy emanating from the streets of Rio de Janeiro, in which 11 well-muscled street dancers perform a fluid mash-up of break-dancing, capoeira and acrobatics, laced with samba influences.”
Caracas Museum That Lost Its Matisse Is Missing 14 Other Works
“But the FBI sting operation that recovered the French painter’s 1925 work Odalisque in Red Trousers in Miami last month has also resurrected awkward questions about more than a dozen other valuable pieces said to be ‘unaccounted for’ at the Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art (MACCSI), including works by Jasper Johns, Henry Moore, Lucian Freud and Jesús Soto.”
Could New Community Radio Law Help Preserve Dying Native American Languages?
Congress’s passage of the Community Radio Act in 2011 means that community radio stations could soon–in Richard Camp’s words–“mushroom,” which offers a lot of potential for Native American media on reservations, where there is usually little infrastructure and in many cases no electricity (certainly no wifi).
Dear Academy: How Jazz Improv Really Works
“Improvisation is still a mystery to many non-jazz trained musicians and intellectuals who want to quantify, and possibly codify, the elements and techniques that go into it.”
Is The World Ready For A Nikola Tesla Museum, At Last?
Seems like it: The Oatmeal’s “Let’s build a goddamned Tesla museum” campaign raised more than half a million dollars in the 48 hours after it began.