Dance: “Across all of Kickstarter, 43 percent of projects get funded, but it’s the small but dedicated collection of dance projects that boasts a funding rate of 71 percent.”
Tag: 10.18.13
The CEO of DreamWorks Has Some Existential Quandaries About Movies And Success
“Spiegel: The 2011 Western comedy Rango, for example, was everything but a children’s movie, but still very successful.
“Katzenberg: Successful? Not really. It didn’t make money. I don’t know how you gauge success. It won an Academy Award, and it appealed to adults. But the movie lost money.”
What Do Award-Winning Authors Think Of The State Of Reading Today?
“Concerns over the ‘glut’ of information available to us are ultimately, I think, pretty near-sighted. There couldn’t possibly be a more ridiculous excuse for not reading. Don’t know what to read? Read anything! Read everything!”
A Short History Of The National Theatre – And Media Response To It
“Looking back, it is astonishing to recall the hostility that greeted the opening of the National theatre. We had waited more than a century for it to be built. Now that it was finally there, the media constantly moaned about an unsustainable white elephant.”
How We Read Is Changing How We’re Reading
When we change how we read, we are changing our brains. Researchers have proposed that we play out literary scenarios with mirror neurons and fire up complex, full-brain patterns of activity when asked to practice “close reading,” in contrast to the patterns associated with reading for pleasure.
Are We Losing The Ability To Listen To Music?
“We can all agree that music is dishonoured if we let it dribble away in the background, as an accompaniment to chatting over a skinny frappucino or answering emails. But does it follow that to honour music as it deserves, we have to listen closely to it?”
Alice Munro Too Ill To Attend Nobel Ceremony
Academy secretary Peter Englund said in an email Friday that the 82-year-old writer had declined the invitation, and that it’s not yet clear who will represent her at the Dec. 10 award ceremony.
The Serpentine’s New Logo Pushes The Boundaries Of A Visual Mark
“An authoritarian logo has its merits, and it certainly conveys a cohesive sense of branding, but art museums in particular have the convenience, an obligation even, to push the boundaries of what we’re used to.”
Why Academics Are Studying Comic Books
“There are now thought to be about 150 comic scholars in the UK – university lecturers, PhD students and independent researchers. They are exploring how subjects such as gender, feminism, history and mental and physical health are portrayed.”
A Surge In Senior Citizens Doing Ballet
“More and more pensioners are taking up ballet, according to the Royal Academy of Dance. It is putting the phenomenon down to the popularity of TV programmes like Strictly Come Dancing.”