With just 15 months to go until Galway becomes the official European capital of culture 2020, the only waves the project has been generating are those that occur in choppy waters.
Tag: 09.19.18
Micheline Rozan, Who Kept Peter Brook’s Paris Theatre Functioning, Dead At 89
“To a large extent, from 1970 on, it was Ms. Rozan who enabled Mr. Brook, one of the 20th century’s greatest theater directors, to follow his creative instincts wherever they led. She found the money, ironed out the logistics and ran the interference necessary to allow him to stage memorable works like The Mahabharata, a nine-hour epic based on a Hindu poem, and La Tragédie de Carmen, a version of the Bizet opera that played Broadway in 1983.”
Theatre Takes On All Kinds Of Issues, But What About The Planet?
The Notch Theatre Company’s model of talking about public lands includes plays that are generated from a lot – a lot – of community meetings and input. “The plays also act as an indelible record of the largest loss to public lands our country has ever seen. They document a community’s unique history and culture at a particularly urgent moment in that community’s journey. Because they are based on true stories, the plays are marked by an authenticity of character and voice, and a sometimes-disarming honesty.”
African Science Fiction Isn’t ‘Rising’ – It Was Already Here
The wave of articles about “the rise of African SFF” or “the rise of Afrofuturism” sound familiar because they’re almost exact replicas of the same genre of articles from about 10 years ago – and those were similar to the previous wave of articles discussing the same thing. Indeed, the articles are “perpetuators of a gentle literary oppression that keeps African science fiction infantile.”
Artist Silences Her Show In Reaction To Firing Of Museum Director
At Cal State Long Beach, where the museum just fired director Kimberli Myer, artist lauren wood wasn’t having it. “It was something I felt I had to do. … I don’t want anyone to misconstrue that I’m putting myself at the center of the work, or Kimberli at the center, but without her leadership, I can’t do the work. The university could have made a different choice.”
The New EU Law That Would Fundamentally Break The Internet
Copying just a few words might be a copyright breach, and merely putting TV sets in hotel rooms or spas requires a license. That is true also with regard to rights holders’ ability to object to or control certain acts of linking to their content. The law already requires any business that links to copyrighted content, including the website of a newspaper, to make sure the content linked to is and remains legal, in order to not be exposed to liability. However, the new article might require businesses to secure a license before displaying titles of news articles and relevant snippets.
The Problem With Cultural Democracy (Or, At Least The Idea Of It)
Given the renewed interest in the ideas and practices of cultural democracy and their potential to address longstanding issues of cultural policy, it seems clear that, as Owen Kelly, a key figure from the community arts movement, has recently argued, arguments about cultural democracy still resonate. But for Arts Council England, they are not unproblematic.
The Problem With Time
Time can now be sliced into slivers as thin as one ten-trillionth of a second. But what is being sliced? Unlike mass and distance, time cannot be perceived by our physical senses. We don’t see, hear, smell, touch, or taste time. And yet we somehow measure it. As a cadre of theorists attempt to extend and refine the general theory of relativity, Einstein’s momentous law of gravitation, they have a problem with time. A big problem.
Are Bert And Ernie Gay? Er… No – They’re Puppets!
“As we have always said, Bert and Ernie are best friends,” the company said in a statement Tuesday. “They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves. Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street Muppets do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation.”
Is Contemporary Art The Kale Of The Art World?
It is no better-tasting and no healthier than many other vegetables. It is but one vegetable. The same is true of contemporary art. The public has shown, through its attendance at major shows of older art, that it wants a range of options. So it is time for museums to return to their true mission: the presentation and teaching of art from all significant periods and cultures, oblivious to temporary market trends and distortions.