So what are the literary phenomena that have defined this first decade of the 21st Century?
Tag: 11.13.09
Dudamel Mania – Marketing Of A Maestro
“In a case of Hollywood-meets-Haydn, the star factory is busy at work on a rare subject: a 28-year-old Venezuelan conductor whose life revolves around scores, not scripts. With only a handful of concerts here behind him, Mr. Dudamel is more or less making this town swoon.”
How The Arts Coped With Life Behind The Iron Curtain
“The cultural responses to totalitarianism and the censorship of the arts differed from country to country. But one common thread through the undergrounds of the Eastern Bloc was that artists wanted their ideas to spread and be considered by the general population. A freedom of speech, however constrained, was very much fueled through the arts.”
Recession? Naw! Auction Market Races Forward
“This week, those attending Christie’s and Sotheby’s evening sessions traditionally reserved for the most important works might have briefly thought that there never was a recession. No awareness of it appeared to linger in the bidders’ minds as they ran up paintings, drawings and sundry three-dimensional works to three times the estimate, or more.”
A Portrait Of Joseph Papp (30 Years Later)
“Papp mostly appears as a kind of theatrical superhero, arriving to give a crucial green light, to fire a director, to change a second act, to shake a cast up or to raise impossibly large sums of money in a single bound.”
A Little Market Perspective – A New Video Game Sales Record
Activision Blizzard Inc. said it sold 4.7 million copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 , or $310 million (U.S.) of sales, on its first day, setting a new record for the video game industry.
Students, Faculty Protest Syracuse University Plans To Move Library Books Off Campus
“People in the humanities contend that they would be impaired in their research abilities. They want more space on the campus rather than going offsite and I’m sympathetic to that. We’re going to actively look for ways to create more space on the campus, but of course that’s going to cost money.”
A Need To Reinvent Theatre
“Theaters need to understand that they are the pulse of society. But for theater to have the important place in society that it deserves, it needs to be almost a town hall — a place where people come for ideas, to converse, to be angry and sometimes to be comforted.”
Teens Get Police Trouble For Rapping Their Order At McDonald’s
“Late last month four teens were cited for disorderly conduct in American Fork, Utah, after repeatedly (and, some would argue, hilariously) rapping their order at a McDonald’s drive-through.”