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Tag: 09.15.14
Critical Dilemma: Criticism Versus Reviewing (When The Two Are At Odds)
“We are starting to see a schism as more and more AAA games are becoming worse from a critical standpoint while becoming better from a less critical, more general perspective.”
Google Art Project Is A Threat To Museums? Absolutely Not
“Some critics complain that Google’s initiative to take us on virtual trips through museums and to show us great pieces of art on demand, as we sit gazing at our laptops, will discourage people from actually going to these institutions. This is flatly untrue. Museum attendance is on the rise, dramatically so.”
Royal New Zealand Ballet Names New Director To Succeed Ethan Stiefel
“The Italian dancer and choreographer Francesco Ventriglia has been appointed as the director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet, following … the surprise resignation of Mr. Stiefel, a former American Ballet Theater principal dancer, who took on the job in 2011.”
Another Worry About Scottish Independence: Talent Might Stampede South
“Scots who consider themselves to be artists living in the land of their birth are increasingly uneasy about the instrumentalism of all this, how the arts are fine as long as they earn, and as long as it’s seen as definitively Scottish. … That’s okay while when there’s still an enthusiastic cultural traffic between Scotland and the rest of the UK, but the Scot Nats want to end it on Thursday.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.15.14
What is this thing called meaning?
AJBlog: We The Audience | Published 2014-09-15
Answer to the Ever-Present False Dichotomy About Museums
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-09-16
The revolution will not be staged
AJBlog: Performance Monkey | Published 2014-09-15
Adoring the impossible
AJBlog: About Last Night | Published 2014-09-15
Meet the Smithsonian’s Incoming Secretary: Jazz Flutist David Skorton (with video)
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-09-15
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Want To Stop Physical Attacks In Public? Play Classical Music
“Classical music could improve people’s behaviour, the report suggests, as it creates ‘a calming effect by releasing pleasure-inducing dopamine and inhibiting the release of stress hormones.'”
Toronto Film Fest Closes With Nary A Standout Film To Cheer
Actors are turning in good, even great performances, but they can’t rescue mediocre films. Dear 2014: When will your movies get better?
Bill Cosby’s Work Is Never Done
“[He] surely has neither the time nor the need to do anything he doesn’t want to do. What he does want to do, even now [at age 77], is comedy: he performs about a hundred times a year, mainly on weekends, following an itinerary that often leads him into what promoters call tertiary markets, where fans are not just happy to be able to see him in person but surprised, too.”
When Frankfurt School Philosophers Examine Pop Culture
Theodor Adorno, on an LA Times astrology column that advised, “Accept all invitations.”: “The consummation of this trend is the obligatory participation in official ‘leisure-time activities’ in totalitarian countries.” Alex Ross considers how Adorno and Walter Benjamin “were pioneers in thinking critically about pop culture – in taking that culture seriously as an object of scrutiny.”