“I bet you five pounds that you can’t write a 150,000-word novel in one month. If you do it, you get the five quid and I publish the book. If you don’t, I get a fiver off you, and I have to go back to publishing local poets. I hate local poets. In fact, I hate all poets. And all poetry. I have a long-standing and deeply entrenched hostility to the form.”
Tag: 09.30.16
Can Toronto Figure Out A Way To Fix Its Botched Public Space?
“Our collective cultural efforts of the 1960s were vastly more adventurous than they are today. Ontario Place is often described as ‘utopian,’ which is right in two senses. One, in its futurist ambition: the architecture embodies modernism’s faith in social progress, technological advances and radical innovation for its own sake. And two, in its production: It was built incredibly fast, driven by a relatively young architect – and it wasn’t entirely clear what the place was for.”
What Does Storytelling Mean In An Age Of Virtual Reality Headsets?
“The FoST Summit also offers workshops, like a mime class given by members of Cirque du Soleil or a lesson on drone photography, as well as performances from groups like Lin Manuel Miranda’s improvised hip-hop musical comedy troupe, Freestyle Love Supreme, and the Pilobolus dance company.”
The Met Gets Sued For One Of Its Best Picassos
“The estate of a German Jewish businessman sued the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday in an effort to claim one of its most valuable Picassos, ‘The Actor,’ asserting in court papers that the museum does not hold good title to the painting because the businessman was forced to sell it at a low price after fleeing the Nazis.”
Should Actors Be Able To Remove Their Ages From IMdB?
“Actors, like Donald Trump, prefer to remain ‘semi-exact’ when it comes to the facts. Perception is our domain, not to be undermined by actuality. A fact like an actor’s date of birth stands in the way of our dreams at some point in all our working lives – we’re no different from anyone else in this – but it’s notoriously true that actors contend with age in unequal ways.”
An American In Paris, Whose Paintings Found New Fame In New York In The 1990s
“Working in a small apartment-studio on the Left Bank, Ms. Jaffe refined and extended her inquiries into the drama of form and color — always at a distance, literally and figuratively, from the currents of American art.”
Women Anchor – And Fly – City Ballet This Season
“The company, almost halfway through its four-week fall season, is being characteristically bounteous with repertory by its founder-choreographer, George Balanchine, which in turn is bounteous with ballerina roles.”
The World’s Oldest Train Station Hosts A Performance Of Steve Reich’s Different Trains
“Reich’s Grammy-winning 1988 work was performed at Edge Hill station, with passenger trains rolling in and out of Liverpool on both sides of the stage.
About 1,200 people watched on the station’s Victorian carriage ramp.”
Portland’s Real-Life Feminist Bookstore (And Community Space) Tells Portlandia Off
“The store says that none of its current board and staff members were involved in the original decision to allow Portlandia to film inside the store six years ago, and that the ‘small flat fee per episode filmed’ doesn’t cover its lost profits.”
Why Don’t Plays About The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Get To U.S. Stages?
“The American theatregoing public doesn’t even know about what it isn’t allowed to see.”