“In my experience, the art world has a disdain for theater. When I present my work to theater people, they call it performance art. When I present it to the art world, they call it theater.”
Tag: 11.18.15
The Million-Dollar Bet On New Novelists
“Heavy bidding for first timers is ratcheting up the size of some advances, agents say, since the competition offers some reassurance that other houses see big potential in a book as well.”
Jazz Great Cassandra Wilson Refuses To Leave Hotel Room For Concert, Keeping 2,500 People Waiting For Almost 90 Minutes
“Almost half the 2,500-strong audience at [London’s] Royal Festival Hall had walked out by the time [the singer], 59, was finally coaxed into taking the stage by fellow band members on Sunday.
When Helga Fooled Us All: Robert Hughes On The Media Frenzy Around Andrew Wyeth’s ‘Secret’ Paintings
“The lanes and back roads, diners and gas stations and Kmarts of rural Pennsylvania were crawling with intrepid reporters, festooned in tape recorders and videocams, looking for Helga. Whether Wyeth was obsessed with her or not, the media certainly were. The quest for Helga began to take on the epic proportions of the search for Patty Hearst, or even the Lindbergh baby.”
How Humans Went From Hissing Like Geese To Flipping The Bird
“No one is turning over a chicken – so why do we call it flipping the bird? ”
Bad Sex In Fiction Award 2015: Behold The Contenders
“Her mouth was intensely ovoid, an almond mouth, of citrus crescents. And under that sling, her breasts were like young fawns, sheep frolicking in hyssop – Psalms were about to pour out of me.”
Glyndebourne Appoints A New General Director
Currently the deputy artistic director of Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Sebastian Schwarz will take up his role in May 2016, becoming the the seventh general director in the opera company’s 81-year history.
Hollywood Reporter: No Actresses Of Color Are Getting Oscar Buzz This Year
As we prepared for this cover, we discovered precisely ZERO actresses of color in the Oscar conversation — at least in the weeks in early September when the roundtables are put together, weeks before the actual ceremony takes place and months before the nominations are announced January 14.
How Awkward Is That When A Major Magazine ‘Splains Why Its Cove Has No Actresses Of Color?
“It’s definitely a sign that things have gotten weird when a major publication is aware of its own lack of imagination, indulges it anyway because it’s the easiest thing to do, and then tries to quell the criticism before anyone has had a chance to see the result.”
Paris’s Cultural Institutions Slowly Bounce Back After Attacks
“This week, the places that make Paris one of the world’s great cultural capitals have been slowly coming back to life, and directors are hoping that residents and visitors alike will return. They say that they are more convinced than ever that culture is a form of resistance to terrorism.”