“It became a profession, even a guild, heavy on trade craft and jargon and dedicated to exclusion and self-protection. It became a way of credentialing an insider class and assuring its members of an income inside of the academy. As such, criticism took up a specialized vocabulary whose chief function, as I see it, was to signal loyalty to the executive board of the approved critical class.”
Tag: 11.04.13
The Terror Of Musical Theatre
“It might be the artifice, or it might be the egos. But everyone from Bernstein to Simon Gray agrees: musical theatre is a nightmare to produce.”
Why H Is The Most Contentious Letter Of The Alphabet
Michael Rosen, author of Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells A Story: “Debates about power and class surround every letter, and H is the most contentious of all. No other letter has had such power to divide people into opposing camps.” (Heck, we can’t even agree on how to pronounce the name of the letter itself.)
Philadelphia Orchestra To Tour Europe In Spring 2015
Unusually, the announcement came not from orchestra officials on Broad Street, but from Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter in London, where he was on a trade mission.
The Real Problem With Blue Is The Warmest Color‘s Sex Scenes
Richard Brody: “The problem … is that they’re too good – too unusual, too challenging, too original – to be assimilated … to the familiar moviegoing experience. Their duration alone is exceptional, as is their emphasis on the physical struggle, the passionate and uninhibited athleticism of sex, the profound marking of the characters’ souls by their sexual relationship.”
Gay Rights Activists To Picket Valery Gergiev Concerts In London
“The demonstration is scheduled to take place outside the Barbican, where Gergiev will lead the London Symphony Orchestra in a performance of The Damnation of Faust by Berlioz – about a scholar who gets too close to the devil.” Picketers are objecting to Russia’s new anti-gay laws and Gergiev’s failure to speak out against them to his longtime friend Vladimir Putin.
The Poet Who Had A Spread In Sports Illustrated
Marianne Moore spent her earlier career as a difficult Modernist poet and fearsome editor. (Hart Crane complained about her as “the Rt. Rev. Miss Mountjoy”.) By the end of her life she was famous enough to be in a Cecil Beaton shoot for Vogue and appear on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show.
How Viral Stories Traveled In The 1800s
“Twitter is faster and HuffPo more sophisticated, but the parasitic dynamics of networked media were fully functional in the 19th century. For proof, look no further than the Infectious Texts project, a collaboration of humanities scholars and computer scientists.”
Are We About To Lose Net Neutrality? (And Why You Should REALLY Care)
“Net neutrality is a dead man walking. The execution date isn’t set, but it could be days, or months (at best). And since net neutrality is the principle forbidding huge telecommunications companies from treating users, websites, or apps differently — say, by letting some work better than others over their pipes — the dead man walking isn’t some abstract or far-removed principle just for wonks: It affects the internet as we all know it.”
Is The Recession Over For The Arts?
“My short answer is the recession is over for us pretty much the same way it is over for most other sectors. Things are better than one to three years ago, but not back to pre-recession.”