“For the last century—for as long as Americans have been a mostly city-dwelling people—we have been finding new and inventive ways to hate city life, and to oppose the densification of cities both as a matter of ideology and of policy.”
Tag: 09.03.14
Why Are There So Few Roles For Women In Hollywood Movies?
“Despite the major box office success of female-led films like Gravity, Maleficent and The Hunger Games series, women made up just 15 per cent of protagonists in the top 100 movies last year.”
Books In Translation Don’t Sell? That’s A Canard
“Books in translation do sell, and at bestseller levels … The Name of the Rose sold. Smilla’s Sense of Snow sold. The Elegance of the Hedgehog sold. Suite Française sold. It seems, in fact, fair to expect that every couple of years will bring a bestseller in translation, and the more worthwhile question to consider is not whether books in translation sell, but whether those bestsellers are predictable, whether there are cycles, and in that context, whether the present moment is exceptional.”
RSC To Stage Forgotten Play By John “‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore” Ford For First Time In Four Centuries
The revenge tragedy Love’s Sacrifice, “published in 1633 during the reign of Charles I and hardly performed since, was chosen out of 16 works proposed by four academics for the [RSC’s] Scholars Pitch programme,” in which experts nominate a neglected play from Shakespeare’s era for revival.
What Do You Get When You Cross “Survivor” With “Dungeons And Dragons”?
You get “a world of inept archery and ill-fitting armor, where people who have no business trying to save a kingdom have been given the responsibility to do just that.” You get The Quest, “set in a fictional kingdom called Everealm, but it actually takes place in the Land of LARP: live-action role playing” – into which ABC has transplanted the standard one-elimination-per-week competition show.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.03.14
Good News From The Middle East
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-09-04
An LA Novelist Pleads With Amazon
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-09-04
Frank Gehry Works His Magic on the Philadelphia Museum (with videos)
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-09-03
Flowering Barbed Wire Means War
(in praise of Sir Jonathan Mills’s eight years at the helm of the Edinburgh Int’l Festival)
AJBlog: Plain English | Published 2014-09-03
Gramex to U.S. classical collectors: “Send us your enemies!”
AJBlog: Condemned to Music | Published 2014-09-03
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Dan O’Brien and Suzan-Lori Parks Win Horton Foote Prize
The prize committee announced on Wednesday that Mr. O’Brien’s “The Body of an American” received the award for outstanding new American play, while “Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3)” by Ms. Parks was selected for promising new American play.
Jennifer Homans To Lead New NYU Center On Study Of Dance
“Her new organization, the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University, where she is a scholar in residence, will open this month with the help of a $2 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Ms. Homans said that its goals include establishing ballet as a serious subject of academic inquiry; drawing new voices into a discussion of its past, present and future; and expanding the conversation beyond the confines of the dance world.”
Down To The Wire At The Atlanta Symphony Contract Talks
“We must avoid the residue of discord and acrimony. The concept that stopping the music — whether characterized as lockout or strike — as a reasonable alternative is unfathomable, deeply divisive, and would be a tragic mistake.” – See more at: