“You’d think that maybe the one time scared conservatives could stomach the sight of a black man killing white men is in the context of vengeance for an unspeakable crime. But in the world imagined by the extreme conservative web, a world constantly under the threat of race war, there is no acceptable space for righteous black violence.”
Tag: 12.12.12
Miriam Margolyes Chews Out Audience Member Who Didn’t Stand And Cheer
During the curtain call after a recent Vancouver performance of her longstanding solo show Dickens’s Women, the actress publicly berated a lady in the front row who chose not to join the rest of the audience in the usual standing ovation.
Young Spaniards Deal With Their Nation’s Troubles In Online Satire
“Web shows with names like Treintañeros (Thirtysomethings), Asqueadas (The Disgusted Ones) and Parados (The Jobless Ones) are finding dark humor in the economic distress of Spain’s so-called lost generation, while offering an antidote to the sanitized view of the crisis often presented on mainstream Spanish TV.”
Landmark Thomas Hart Benton Mural Goes To Met Museum
“America Today, now considered one of the most important and famous examples of American scene painting, is languishing in storage. That will change, however, because AXA Equitable, the insurance company that bought it nearly 30 years ago, has decided to donate it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” which will display it in the former Whitney Museum building beginning in 2015.
Oliver Sacks On The Neurology Of Seeing God
“Both [Out-of-Body Experiences and Near-Death Experiences] … cause hallucinations so vivid and compelling that those who experience them may deny the term hallucination, and insist on their reality. … But the fundamental reason that hallucinations – whatever their cause or modality – seem so real is that they deploy the very same systems in the brain that actual perceptions do.
Britain’s 100 Most Influential Postwar Plays, According To The V&A’s New App
“After acquiring a new collection of theatre photography, the Victoria & Albert museum has launched a new interactive app that picks out the 100 most influential plays in postwar Britain.”
The Sex Life Of Zeus: An Infographic
The king of the ancient Greek gods was, of course, notoriously randy, with a long and confusing roster of paramours and offspring – just the sort of thing to appeal to inventive and geeky data-visualization designers. The team responsible for this graphic managed to include Zeus’s ancestors and relatives as well, along with the sources in which each liaison is mentioned.
A Christmas Tree Made Entirely Of Crockery (And It Looks Great!)
In the Belgian town of Hasselt, “local designers MOOZ built a glowing kerstboom for the town center out of discarded crockery. Five thousand cups, bowls and plates donated by residents make up the 30-foot ‘tree’.” (This could make up for that pile of green boxes they put on the Grand-Place in Brussels.)
Benjamin Millepied’s Multimedia L.A. Dances Begin Popping Up On YouTube
“One goal of his L.A. Dance Project, formed earlier this year, is to present dance outside of the traditional confines of theater walls” – a goal he began realizing this summer in a pair of site-specific duets with artist Mark Bradford at MOCA. Now there’s “a video from the show on MOCAtv, the museum’s YouTube channel that launched in October.”
An Ideological Throwdown At This Year’s Oscars
Andrew O’Hehir: “With an impressive number of high-quality and high-visibility movies in the mix, movies that offer markedly different worldviews, interpretations of human experience and dramatized real-world events, the Academy Award struggle of 2013 ought to be a heated cultural imbroglio with all sorts of ideological overtones, one that lays bare some of the fault lines in American society.”