"All in all, the oracular quality of these lines, their sheer wisdom, makes of Beckett, much against his will, no doubt, something of a sage." - The Irish Times
Who could put it better than this? "There is much to learn within the pages of the so-called bonkbuster – and, no, not all of it is about sex." - The Observer (UK)
Is it still March 2020? What content are we watching? Who even knows? Well, your museum. The Walker Museum's public programs manager: "People are looking to their local arts organizations for online content. Even though you can see the Berlin Philharmonic or go to the Met programs, I think there's still a real interest in what's happening in...
Zendaya's move on the pandemic-filmed Malcolm and Marie may be a new standard for the industry. Of course, it helped that she and her costar had some say in the production and its finances. "We got to create this financial structure where all of our crew members also got points on it, so when it sold, they made money...
Perhaps some of it might be found in erasure. "Sometimes when it’s hard to write, that constraint gives you a place to start. It’s a bit like a painter working with a limited palette: You have both a solid foundation from which to begin your poem, and the challenge to create something using only what you have in front...
The nurse, who has been working on COVID-19 wards for months, beat 12,000 other applicants to the Goteborg Film Festival, where she'll live alone on a lighthouse for a week, watching 60 films. Lisa Enroth "said she hoped to enjoy 'being part of a totally different kind of reality for a week.'"- BBC
Peter Dunn, the head of CBS' 28 news stations, and another staffer - the senior vice president for news - were suspended, and an outside law firm hired to investigate an alleged culture of sexist and racist bullying. - Los Angeles Times
Rent a bookstore for a date. Yes, an entire bookstore. "The experience is BYOB (and food), but the store provides candles—and, of course, exclusive browsing access. What better way to get to know someone that by judging their taste in books?" - LitHub
Rian Dundon: "I’m always trying to do portraits at these events as a way to cut through the visual noise of flags and sign boards etc. It’s easy to lose people to that stuff, and I want to make it clear that these are the individuals who took part in this." - Oregon ArtsWatch
It's pretty great, honestly. Ask Angie Thomas. "Had you told little Angie that 20-something years ago, she wouldn’t have believed she wrote something that made it that far — that this little Black girl in Mississippi whose family sometimes didn’t know if they would have food would have a book in the White House." - The New York Times
Of course, this feeling (and the lack of funding, and alarm about orchestras' survival) started long before the pandemic, and long before the assault on the Capitol Building. But: "The trials of the past year have brought forth many of the qualities we already admired about classical music: its resilience, resistance, persistence and endurance. But permanence? I’m not so sure...
Cohan founded an outpost of Martha Graham's school in London in 1966, and, a couple of years later, The Place. That venture (including the London Contemporary Dance Group) "initially performed pieces from Graham’s and other choreographers’ bodies of work, but Mr. Cohan soon decided that going forward it would offer only works that had been specially created for its...
Mary-Kay Wilmers was one of LRB's co-founders in 1979, and after co-editing it since 1988 became sole editor in 1992. Two women will take over: "Wilmers will continue at the paper as consulting editor, with the LRB’s deputy editor Jean McNicol and senior editor Alice Spawls succeeding her." - The Guardian (UK)
Why did Jujamcyn switch from Ticketmaster to SeatGeek (more commonly a sports ticket app in the U.S.)? For one thing, SeatGeek is very commonly a contactless system, which now seems possible valuable for preventing viral spread. Also, there's the ease of selling more things: "Beyond selling tickets, its technology could be used to allow customers to order food and...
