“Absorbing a long, complex argument is hard work, requiring students to synthesize, organize and react as they listen. In our time, when any reading assignment longer than a Facebook post seems ponderous, students have little experience doing this.”
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‘Choreographic Objects’ – William Forsythe’s Art Installations
In 1997, “he made his first foray into installation work at the Roundhouse in London with White Bouncy Castle, which had spectators bounding and falling in a giant rubber courtyard. He described it at the time as ‘a choreography that is incapable of being false.’ It’s a description that fits a subsequent substantial body of work that generates movement in spectators – by navigating between the swinging pendulums …, clambering through 200 gymnastic rings without touching the floor …, [or] moving extremely slowly in order not to disturb a whirlpool of fog.”
Classical Music Isn’t Exclusive Or ‘Elitist’ Unless We Make It That Way
Brigid Delaney: “Classical music is incredible. It doesn’t matter if you weren’t brought up with it, or don’t know how to pronounce the composers’ names … I wasn’t, I can’t, and it still lets me in … Experiencing this magic doesn’t ask much of you – just that you pay attention and surrender to it.”
California Launches A Cultural Districts Program
“Last week, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 189 , a measure empowering the California Arts Council to designate areas as Cultural Districts in a competitive application process. … AB 189 charges the Council to formulate a plan to foster Art Districts throughout the state, thereby enhancing creativity, and in the process, reinventing the landscape of cities throughout the state.”
Ballet Dancers And Money
“Ideally, though, you would have both a property and a pension. Currently I’m renting but I would love to get on to the housing ladder in the future. I live in Clerkenwell, Central London, and I would buy a property there, but not at the moment. I’m incredibly busy with the ballet – I haven’t had a chance to go house-hunting.”
The First Black Artist To Represent The U.S. At The Venice Biennale Finally Get What He Wants: Context
“He took the hardest road. Choosing to be an artist, period, is a tough one. It’s a risky venture. Most will go unnoticed and unappreciated. How many people deserve the attention?”
The Startup Literary Press That Pissed Off The New Yorker (And Survived)
“Formerly called TheNewerYork and once the focus of all that attention from The New Yorker, The Shrug is tNY’s literary magazine and a playground for form. It is filled with un-famous (and unlikely) quotes like this one from Gandhi: ‘Life is short, get wet.'”
Can Britain Rescue One Of The Best Schools Of Art And Design From Being Sold By A Cash-Strapped University?
“As a current student puts it in her video A Love Letter to My Art School: ‘We have too much stuff and take up too much space, and apparently being an artist or a craft isn’t enough to survive in this university. You have to be able to just work in a classroom.'”
Indian Writers Return Prizes To A Government That Seems OK With Violence
“The writers’ revolt, which began in September after a 76-year-old critic of Hindu idolatry was gunned down in his home, rapidly gained strength this month when Mr. Modi failed to promptly condemn the killing of a Muslim man, Mohammed Ikhlaq, by a Hindu mob because they suspected he had killed a cow and eaten its meat.”
How Do You Design Costumes When Your Theatre Has Little Money For Costuming?
“I used my parents as my inspiration for the design. They were still young campesinos in the ’40s. No matter how poor, I remember seeing my father dress himself in his dark pin stripe suit every Sunday morning for Mass; his calloused hands darkened by fieldwork. As a campesina, my mother would wear her khaki pants under her cotton dress for modesty. It was inconceivable just to wear pants for fieldwork!”