“An online petition is pushing for all foreign content to be banned from the stage at the Confederation Centre of the Arts.”
Tag: 09.18.12
Palestinian Theatre Director Resumes Hunger Strike
“The Palestinian militant turned theatre director Zakaria Zubeidi has resumed a total hunger strike in protest at his continued detention without charge by Palestinian security forces, and his supporters say he could die within days.”
Academy Introduces Electronic Voting For Oscars
“This year, for the first time, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will offer its members the option of electronic voting rather than the traditional paper ballot.”
Agatha Christie Propaganda Essay Rediscovered
“Christie’s essay, in which she extols the virtues of the British detective story, has been published for the first time in the UK as the preface to the reissued 1933 collaborative crime novel Ask a Policeman.”
Poet Louis Simpson, 89
He was “a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who captured in simple verses the complexity of 20th-century American life, including the beauty and the emptiness he sometimes found in middle-class suburbia.”
Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, Now With Giant Bathtub, Reopens After Eight Years
“The original 1895 building of the Modern and contemporary art museum has been refurbished and an extension added that overlooks the city’s Museumplein. The new building” – which really does resemble an uninstalled bathtub seen from below – “has been designed by Amsterdam-based Benthem Crouwel Architects.”
Joyce Theater To Buy Chelsea Home, Sell Joyce SoHo
“The Joyce Theater is buying its longtime home in Chelsea for $20 million and selling its SoHo location for about $27 million, according to theater officials. The transactions … will not affect the Joyce’s plans to be the anchor tenant at the performing arts center planned for ground zero.”
Texting Through A Rosh Hashana Service – At The Rabbi’s Invitation
“‘Let’s see some texting, guys,’ Rabbi Amy L. Morrison told the group. ‘Take those phones out.’ What do you need to let go of, she asked the congregants, in order to be ‘fully present’? Hunched over their phones, they let loose their words and watched them scroll into view: Past mistakes. Shyness. Anger. Fear of failure. Self-pity. Ego. Doubt. Control.”
Stats – Illegal Music Sharing Has Gone Mainstream
“The data shows just how mainstream filesharing is now. It isn’t just members of Anonymous sitting behind their Macbooks downloading the obscure doom metal of Sunn O)))) the culprits are your next door neighbours, your relatives, your own kids and perhaps (probably) even you.”
Will Eli Broad Usurp LA’s MoCA?
“In the tumult surrounding MOCA over the last six months — an erratic art program, grim staffing issues, real funding problems, sharp divisions among trustees, etc. — the Broad takeover myth has become deeply entrenched. But it makes no business sense, and Broad is nothing if not a savvy businessman.”