After The Year of Magical Thinking, she says, “People would stop me in airports and tell me what it had done for them. I had no clue; I hadn’t done anything as far as I could see. … I’m not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself – there is a basic indifference toward people.”
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New York City Ballet’s Slimmed-Down Touring Operation Gets Started
“The idea for New York City Ballet Moves is that it’s meant to be the same experience you would have seeing the company perform in New York. It’s just that the repertoire is selected for a smaller group,” said Katherine Brown, the company’s executive director.
Despite New Contract, Philadelphia Orchestra’s Problems Aren’t Over
“Significant battles threaten, and it still is not entirely clear what kind of an orchestra lies at the end of the [bankruptcy] process.”
Gay Movie Actors May Not Feel Safe Coming Out, But More And More, TV Stars Do
Ellen DeGeneres, Neil Patrick Harris, Jane Lynch, T.R. Knight, and now Zachary Quinto … “Why has this wave of openness hit TV? You’d think that, since TV comes into our homes every day, since it has a more intimate relationship with viewers, it might be more vulnerable to pockets of viewer disapproval. But the TV business is a more flexible testing ground than the movies.”
The First Famous Actresses – And Their Head Shots
“Dogged by innuendo, courted by kings, Britain’s pioneering early actresses led lives every bit as colourful as any Restoration comedy. Now an exhibition shows them in the publicity shots of their day.”
Is Philosophy The Most Practical Major?
“[It] is a tool (like history and religious studies) for thinking about everything else, and every profession from law and medicine to motorcycle maintenance. It’s also one of the most competitive disciplines … [and is] institutionalized beyond academia in ways that history and literature are not, for example in bioethics programs.”
Jokes And Crisis – They Go Together
“Humor is not, as some believe, a coping strategy or an outlet for the frustrations that cannot be expressed in any other way … or at least it is not just that. At its best, it is the self-consciousness of crisis. Without changing anything in ‘objective’ reality, humor permits reality to laugh at itself, and in doing so, to stand outside of itself, to become other to itself.”
Opera From The Pit Perspective
“Don’t tell the members of an opera orchestra they are merely “accompanying” the singers onstage. It’s not a word these musicians use – and they take their oom-pah-pahs very seriously.”
The Intellectual Roots Of Occupy Wall Street
“Occupy Wall Street’s most defining characteristics–its decentralized nature and its intensive process of participatory, consensus-based decision-making–are rooted in other precincts of academe and activism: in the scholarship of anarchism and, specifically, in an ethnography of central Madagascar.”
How Did The High Museum Get So Many Matisses? Ask MoMA
Museum of Modern Art director Glenn Lowry has helped his institution loan many works to the High Museum of Art. Why? “Bringing great art to Atlanta has to also over time create a culture of collecting within Atlanta. That’s where you start to get a critical mass of collectors who in a very collegial way compete with each other to develop outstanding collections. That will be the legacy. The exhibitions come and go. Staff comes and goes. The legacy always is the actual works of art that remain in a community.”