Not the raw meat dish, silly; she means the painter. “I am no connoisseur, cultural scholar, or art historian. I know nothing about painterly techniques, chromatic gradations, or artistic affinities, and my infatuation with him is largely affectionate fancy. I feel I know him personally, and I often sense that I am directly in touch with him across the centuries, across the continents, as one might be in touch with a living friend. But however much I delight in Carpaccio’s virtual company, I know hardly anything about the man, and in this I am not alone.”
Tag: 09.08.14
Has The Toronto Film Festival Lost Its Way?
“Maybe it’s time for a break. TIFF has gotten too unwieldy, too Hollywood, too focused on the dozens of film junkets attaching themselves, barnacle-like, to the festival itself.”
Reading Insecurity: Has The Internet Really Killed Our Ability To Deal With Long Things Like Books?
“Maybe we’ve sensed that we rely on physical cues to ground ourselves in complex arguments, and that we get more of those from books than from flickering screens. … And after centuries of vaunting the solidity of written language, there’s a kind of whiplash in signing on and watching our literary output swoosh by. … Yet the Web giveth, even as it taketh away.”
Writers Paying Homage To Other Writers Deal With Pitfalls In Their Own Work
“Should you explain the referenced work so that those unfamiliar with it can enjoy your book? Or should you simply accept that some readers will fall behind and end up befuddled? It’s a tricky enterprise.”
People Can’t Finish Things Because We Actually Have A Damned Hard Time Starting
Set your deadlines now. That “doesn’t mean right this second, but it does mean now, as in this month, this year, or whatever time-frame feels most like the present rather than the future.”
Another Lawsuit Against Hollywood Studios’ Anti-Poaching Pacts
“Robert Nitsch Jr, a former visual effects worker at DreamWorks Animation, has became the latest to go to court over an alleged conspiracy to deny workers in the visual effects community better work opportunities.”
The Destruction Of Syria’s Cultural Heritage Is Far From Incidental
“The nation’s heritage has been used as a weapon to finance bloodshed, to settle sectarian scores and to erase entire chapters of the country’s past in the expectation of radically reshaping its future.”
Australia Seems To Be Almost Completely Out Of Theatre Ideas (Say Some)
“Five Sydney and Melbourne theatres have been criticised for an absence of curatorial ideas in their 2015 seasons, failing to engage with contemporary Australian and world politics and for being ‘very cosy and white.'”
How’s That $44 Million Stonehenge Restoration Working Out, Then?
“A 360-degree theater uses finely detailed laser scans of the stones to show the monument’s evolving shape, while a wall-size animated map shows Stonehenge within a puzzling network of mounds and ditches, barrows containing burial remnants, and vestiges of unexplained earthworks that extend over miles.”
The Senior Ballet Pros Going Back To The Barre
“They all admit to varying degrees of trepidation. There’s no disguising that, collectively, they are a wrinklier, baggier version of their past selves, and there’s much searching for reading glasses whenever they need to consult their rehearsal notes.”