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Tag: 11.13.14
Another Spanish Artist Rejects A National Prize
“The latest is the Catalan photographer known as Colita, born Isabel Steva Hernández, who last week refused to accept the National Photography Prize, worth €30,000, … [writing,] ‘The situation of culture and education in Spain is shameful, embarrassing and heartbreaking. It is not possible that such a ministry exists. It is a chimera.'”
The Secrets Of “Serial”‘s Success
The multi-episode spinoff of This American Life is now the most downloaded podcast at iTunes, and entertainment blogs run the sorts of recaps and discussions that are usually the province of juggernaut TV shows like Breaking Bad and Downton Abbey. Laura Miller considers the ingredients that make Serial such a hit.
Tony Committee Agrees To Consider Reviving Sound Design Category
“The Tony Awards administration committee … on Thursday asked the rules committee for the Tonys to review a request by theatrical sound designers, Broadway actors, and many others to restore Tony Awards for best sound design for a play and for a musical. The administration committee eliminated those two awards in June.”
At Smithsonian, Food Service And Custodial Workers Are On Strike
“The striking workers are all employed at companies that have federal contracts with the U.S. government. They include food service workers, cleaning staff and other privately contracted employees who labor on federal properties such as the Smithsonian Institution’s museums and the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center.”
“The Audience”, About Elizabeth II, To Be Adapted By Netflix
Peter Morgan’s play, a West End hit currently running on Broadway with Helen Mirren as the Queen, will be adapted into a ten-part on-demand video series titled The Crown.
National Dance Company Wales Finally Stabilizes With New Leaders
“Ann Sholem, who co-founded the company formerly known as Diversions, with her husband Roy Campbell-Moore, quit as artistic director last year – months after Campbell-Moore left his post as artistic associate.” Gustavo Ramírez Sansano has been named the new artistic director, with Paul Kaynes as CEO.
“Trespass Theater” At A Superfund Site (Ew)
“While [most site-specific] productions are held in controlled and sanctioned spaces, [Jeff] Stark’s works take place in locations like abandoned power plants and disused subway stations, with no permission or permits, and are subject to a rude lack of cooperation from the real world.” The play at hand: an enactment of the Persephone myth at Brooklyn’s notoriously polluted Gowanus Canal.
Research Confirms: Nobody Likes A Smarty-Pants
But there seems to be an exception, and it explains why viewers like Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory.
What It’s Like to Remember Almost Everything That Has Ever Happened to You
“To date, 56 people have been identified as possessing a structural difference in their brain that allows them to swiftly and vividly recall their life’s events – from the mundane to the monumental – usually starting around early adolescence.” Here’s a Q&A with one of those people, a 30-year-old New Yorker.