“That [would be] a bit like saying that eating is a phenomenon of the stomach. The stomach is an important part of the story. But don’t forget the mouth, the intestines, the blood, and don’t forget the hunger, and also the whole socially-sustained practice of producing, shopping for and cooking food.”
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Montreal’s Dance Boot Camp For Boys – Televised
Dancer/choreographer/producer Nico Archambault “selected these 10 male dancers – who have fair-to-middlin’ dance training and charisma to burn – out of 120 who showed up to audition for his television show Ils Dansent, which … focuses on the intense training required to create a versatile male dancer.”
Performing Shakespeare In The West Bank
“It was, said the director, an Elizabethan atmosphere. People came and went throughout the play. There was chatter and laughter and crying babies. … Yet this was not the Globe theatre on the south bank of the Thames, but an open-air performance in the shadow of Israel’s concrete wall separating Bethlehem from Jerusalem.”
UK Theatre Community Rallies For African Playwright Facing Deportation
Cameroonian playwright Lydia Besong, who has written three plays during her five years in Britain, and her husband have had their asylum application denied.
The Weeks The Music Didn’t Die: Proms Attract Record Numbers
A second record-breaking season for London’s Proms sees thousands of new ticket-buyers and 94 percent attendance.
Where’s The Getty In Poussin Purchase? Not There
“In announcing its newest acquisition, Nicolas Poussin’s ‘Sacrament of Ordination (Christ Presenting the Keys to Saint Peter),’ circa 1636-40, Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum said in a press release, ‘The painting is from Poussin’s famous first set of the ‘Seven Sacraments,’ which has been universally acclaimed, virtually since its creation, as a landmark in the history of art.’
And I found myself saying, ‘I wonder why the Getty didn’t buy it?'”
Florida Museum Keeps Painting Stolen By Nazis
“U.S. authorities are working with Italian Ministry of Culture to determine the rightful owners of the work: a 473-year-old oil painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Girolamo Romano entitled ‘Christ Carrying the Cross Dragged by a Rogue.'”
Talking About 9/11 Art, And How It Shaped Memory And Debate
“As befits an event with a truly traumatic status, 9/11 has proved difficult to approach in an uncontroversial way. No work of ‘9/11 Art,’ in fact, seems complete without some commentary on how it fails or does disservice to the true nature of the tragedy — though, of course, this true nature varies depending on who is doing the commentary.”
Comix + iPad = Win For Everyone (Who Has An iPad, Anyway)
“If you’ve ever tried reading comics on the iPad, you know that it’s an almost-perfect delivery method.” Now that publishers have started offering same-day digital delivery, sales numbers support their new push. Only one thing is still missing.
If Trauma’s A Natural Part Of The Human Condition, How Can We Help Each Other?
“I step toward the topic of trauma intermittently; then, I step away. And even as resilient survivors and professionals know that not every survivor of trauma develops prolonged problems, and that not everything we commonly call “stress†is, in fact, trauma, to pretend that natural disasters, mass violence, accidents and other traumatic experiences, such as sexual assault, don’t take a toll on coping is, at least, unkind and – at worst – perilous.”