09.14.15 – Page 2 – ArtsJournal Wayback

Fake Weddings Are The Hot New Party Fad In Argentina

#falsaboda (yes, it’s a hashtag) is “a fake wedding where the bride, groom, and officiant are actors and the guests are there to party rather than celebrate a new marriage. The party-goers, usually young and single, pay between $43 and $65 for tickets, which are in high demand. The faux-wedding-goers receive a video that tells the backstory of the ‘couple,’ and they’re usually in for some kind of drama.”

Problem With LA’s New Broad Museum – Too Much Art?

“The volume of work chosen for the inaugural exhibition, on both the third floor and a smaller first-floor gallery that will eventually be used for temporary shows, is overwhelming. Partition walls clutter the third floor, and obliterate its spatial drama. And too many of the works are so large, and importune the visitor so aggressively, that one feels hectored by hectares of art.”

How Late Night TV Got Reinvigorated

“Far from signaling the fading cultural import of the late-night talk show, which is what everyone feared the market-share-cannibalizing Leno-Letterman wars augured in the 1990s, this fragmented landscape has invigorated the format—nearly every weeknight brings some rich moment that goes viral.”

So What’s Missing From That Vanity Fair Picture Of Late Night TV?

“The Vanity Fair article, written by David Kamp, talks about the changes within the last few years in late-night comedy. The article also points out that women are still missing from late-night TV.”

The Man Who Made The Toronto Film Festival Great Talks About How To Succeed

Piers Handling: “When I was younger, what got me engaged were filmmakers who taught me to think analytically, and it began to reveal truths about relationships in the world – between people and society and everything around us – in a very different way. To decipher the world visually, try to uncover what’s beneath the surface and in the subtext, still fascinates me. And that’s what really began to open my eyes to the potential of the medium.”

The Problem With “Modern” Philosophy

The move to understand things theoretically only comes about when there is some interruption or “deficiency” in our ordinary dealings. A common error in philosophy, however, has been a kind of “intellectualism,” treating all our contact with the world in terms of concepts and representations, assuming that “knowledge is the only mode of experience that grasps things.”

Company Plans To Tour Show With Hologram Concert Of The Late Whitney Houston

Pat Houston, Whitney’s sister and president of the her estate, said: “It’s a great opportunity for her fans to see a reinvention of one the most celebrated female artists in history and to continue a legacy of performances that will not be forgotten in years to come.

Ballet Company Becomes Collateral Damage In Quebec Teachers’ Labor Dispute

Ballet Ouest de Montréal has had to cancel almost half (so far) of its December Nutcracker performances for school groups – which make up a hefty part of its income – because teachers staging a work-to-rule action are refusing to supervise field trips and extracurricular groups.

A Crowd-Sourced Instrument For Objectively Scoring The Level Of Evil (Is Such A Thing Possible?)

“For the last decade, forensic psychiatrist Michael Welner has led a curious, self-funded effort to create something he calls the Depravity Standard … But can a scientist really define the outer edges of our morality?”

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