Rupert Christiansen: “[These] efforts draw small but loyal audiences, usually very appreciative, and you might say at the very worst, that no harm is done. But for the critic these pop-up performances pose a quandary: how can one balance one’s desire to pat honest endeavour on the back with the sacred imperative of rigorously honest and unsentimental judgment?”
Tag: 11.22.13
Canada’s Refugee From The Bolshoi Makes Her Debut In Her New Home
This weekend’s National Ballet of Canada program of new works will feature Svetlana Lunkina, who “made headlines in January when she announced that, after 15 years as one of the Bolshoi’s top-ranking artists, she was leaving the troubled ballet company.”
Kid Gets Concussion And Develops Musical Talent
“When Lachlan got out of the hospital, doctors said he shouldn’t play contact sports anymore. That was a heartbreaker for Connors, but in the wake of that disappointment Connors found that he suddenly could play music almost effortlessly.”
The Essence Of Selfies? Art
“The selfie is a deliberate, aesthetic expression–it’s a self-portrait, which is an artistic genre with an extremely long pedigree. There can be bad self-portraits and good self-portraits, but the self-portrait isn’t bad or good in itself.”
Going Deep In The World Of The Drug Cartels – And Their Songwriters
“My guys sing to Sinaloa–they’re Chapo people. They have to be very careful. They don’t book shows in other peoples’ territories. When they go on the mic, they say, ‘Hello to Culiacan!’ but they’ll never say hello to Reynosa, because that’s controlled by a different cartel. You have to stay with your team.”
Berlin’s City Center Is Full Of Land Stolen From German Jews
Almost a fifth of the buildings in Berlin’s city center belonged to Jews before Hitler’s rise to power. Should their heirs seek more money for restitution?
Why Can’t Hollywood Just Celebrate The Ordinary In Life?
Director Alexander Payne: “We see the hegemony of commercial U.S. cinema trying to crush that around the world, at least in terms of distribution. … I want to see American films about Americans like we used to have, not American films which are all cartoons intended to be digested easily the world over.”
The 21st Century Is Pretty Amazing: Using E-books To Fix Gaps In Art History
“Each text, to be written by an academic or expert, will run to 15,000 words and include as many as 60 illustrations. And they’re all going to be free, readable online or downloadable as e-books.”
Oh, No Big Deal At The Field Museum – Just An Entirely New Dinosaur
The best part? The scientists were demoralized and about to go home depressed when they found the bones in Utah.
Gaming Is Kind Of A Big Deal In The U.S. And The Numbers Prove It [VIDEO]
Americans spent almost $10 billion (yes, billion) more on video games and gaming consoles than on movie tickets in 2012. That’s only going to get more intense this year.