“Three thousand years ago, the Duke of Zhou set China a glowing example. A paragon of virtue, he spelled out a philosophy of a ruler in harmony with heaven that inspired Confucius, and” – centuries later, after the disastrous Cultural Revolution – “came to fill the ideological vacuum left behind by Chairman Mao.”
Tag: 10.09.12
Unpublished Tolkien Epic To Hit Shelves
“HarperCollins has announced the acquisition of Tolkien’s never-before-published poem The Fall of Arthur, which will be released for the first time next May. Running to more than 200 pages, … the poem sees Tolkien tackling the old king’s battle to save his country from Mordred the usurper, opening as Arthur and Gawain go to war.”
Cedar Lake, Swimming Against America’s Ballet Tide
“In the US, the dance mainstream has long been dominated by the pure-movement aesthetic of choreographers such as George Balanchine, Merce Cunningham and Mark Morris. Under the artistic directorship of Benoit-Swan Pouffer, however, Cedar Lake began presenting work that was almost entirely from Europe, and from a far more theatrically experimental tradition.”
Free Online Arts Platform The Space Gets Semi-Permanent Funding
“When The Space launched, somewhat gingerly, in May this year, it was intended as a six-month pilot. Over the summer, Arts Council England’s free digital platform, run with the BBC, has carried film and other content tied to [Cultural Olympiad] events around the UK.” Now the Council “is setting aside £8m from a digital fund to support the platform over the next two to three years.”
At Long Last, Movie Houses Come To The Rio Favelas
“Less than two years ago, Complexo de Alemão was a fiefdom, a district of 60,000 people ruled by drug gangs notorious for their brutality. … In its first full year, CineCarioca sold 74,000 tickets, an estimated 91% of those coming through the doors having never been to the cinema before.”
Herb Ritts And Gustav Klimt Were Record-Setters For Getty Museum
“They don’t have a lot in common other than nudity, but two Getty Center exhibitions this summer, ‘Herb Ritts: L.A. Style’ and ‘Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line,’ drew some of the biggest crowds the museum has ever seen.”
A Museum Of Suburbia (In A Kansas City Suburb, Naturally)
“Museum officials in Johnson County, Kan., propose spending $34 million to create the National Museum of Suburbia, a faux suburb where visitors could wander through a model ranch-style home, wonder at an exhibit of lawn furniture and topple pins on a re-created bowling lane.”
Kate Prince, English-Village-Lass-Turned-Hip-Hop-Choreographer
“I get a lot of people saying: ‘You’re a white girl from the country, how are you working in hip-hop?’ At first I thought that was fair enough, but now I’m like: ‘It’s been 10 years, let’s move on’.”
Bret Easton Ellis Is Still Bitching About Not Getting To Write Fifty Shades Screenplay
The American Psycho author spent the summer openly campaigning to be screenwriter for the movie version of Fifty Shades of Grey, eve offering casting suggestions. When the producers announced the choice of television writer Kelly Marcel, Ellis threw a little Twitter tantrum.
How To Quell Civil Unrest? In Egypt, Start With Scrubbing The Graffiti
“In the absence of any far-reaching reforms the public space has become, since Morsi’s election, the focus of a wild drive to patch up appearances. Apparently inspired by some unrealistic desire to turn over a completely new leaf, the Muslim Brotherhood is determined to clean up the streets of Egypt, before even beginning to purge the rotten apparatus of state.”