“For all the righteous concern people expressed about the welfare of my children, what most of them failed to understand was that taking those pictures was an act separate from mothering.”
Barre To Barracks: Dancer Trains For Role By Training With Real Soldiers
Shelley Eva Haden: “When choreographer Rosie Kay cast me as the only woman in a revival of her work 5 Soldiers, I didn’t fully appreciate what it meant until I spent five days with 4th Battalion the Rifles. The infantry were undergoing a full-battle exercise and I was the only female among more than 80 soldiers.”
A New Tate Museum Is Open – In Minecraft
“Tate’s initiative, known as ‘Tate Worlds,’ is the result of a collaboration with a group of Minecraft artists and builders known as ‘The Common People’ in order to refashion artworks from their collection into Minecraft’s virtual universe.”
Did The Internet Make Book Culture Explode?
“For centuries, if what you had written was going to be shown to others, it would have to be placed in a library, usually a church library. And since the only way anyone would know that a new piece of literature had been written was if the writer personally put the word around, there would usually be some kind of social connection between writer and readers.”
Picking The Wrong Day Job Can Ruin A Writer
“The main question no one wants to ask but everyone wants answered is quite simple: How are you supporting yourself? Is there a husband? A day job? A trust fund? If you write literary fiction, do you teach? If you’re in your 20s, do your parents pay your rent?”
That Time An Artist Published Pictures Of Her Children, And The NYT Almost Destroyed Her
“In my arrogance and certitude that everyone must see the work as I did, I left myself wide open to journalism’s greatest hazard: quotations lacking context or the sense of irony or self-deprecating humor with which they were delivered.”
Could Artificial Intelligence Help Make Us More Intentional In Our Decisions?
“Can technology—especially AI—help humans reverse eons of irrational behavior and bad habits that seem hard-coded in our DNA? Ariely believes it can, and believes that it will start with AI-oriented software and tools that can create what he calls an “intention genome” for every individual—tools to help align our unlimited aspirations and goals with our very limited time on earth.”
Morgan Library Gets A New Director
The Library “looked West to bring back a longtime New Yorker as its new director, choosing Colin B. Bailey, who has served since 2013 as director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco but was for many years before that the chief curator at the Frick Collection.”
HBO Has Risked A Lot On Its New Streaming Service
“The move seems risky. What if people dump their regular HBO subscriptions? What if the cable providers, who generate virtually all of HBO’s $5.4 billion in revenue, remain displeased by this run around them? What if Now, which may feature content never before seen on HBO, is less consistently excellent than the existing HBO service? And what if this pushes Netflix to become even more aggressive?”
Ballet Instructor Fired For Nude Photos Of Students
“The Royal Winnipeg Ballet has fired 28-year veteran instructor Bruce Monk amid a police investigation into nude and semi-nude photographs of young women dancers in the 1980s and 1990s.” (includes video)
CBC Management ‘Condoned’ Jian Ghomeshi’s Workplace Behaviour, Inquiry Finds; Two Execs Fired
“CBC management is squarely to blame for allowing disgraced radio host Jian Ghomeshi to get away for years with inappropriate behaviour that included sexual harassment,” concluded an independent investigation by two employment lawyers.
Cirque Du Soleil Is About To Be Sold
“Co-founder [and owner] Guy Laliberté sent an email to staff on Thursday saying that he had not yet wrapped up the company sale, after CBC/Radio-Canada and other media outlets reported American private equity firm TPG Capital and China’s Fosun will buy majority shares in Cirque du Soleil.”
Tennessee Williams On His Women, His Writer’s Block, And Whether It All Mattered
“[The playwright] tasked James Grissom with seeking out each of the women (and few men) who had inspired his work – Maureen Stapleton, Lillian Gish, Marlon Brando and others – so that he could ask them a question: had Tennessee Williams, or his work, ever mattered?” Here Grissom recounts his first meetings with Williams.
Misty Copeland Makes Cover Of Time Magazine
“For the first time in a generation a dancer has made the cover of Time magazine: Misty Copeland, the American Ballet Theater soloist, was chosen as one of the magazine’s ‘100 most influential people,’ and is featured on one of the five different covers for its upcoming issue.”
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Tribeca Film Festival Exlores New Forms Of Interactivity
Each turns its audience into a protagonist, and suggests new directions for storytelling that go beyond traditional cinema—while perhaps invigorating that medium. “It makes you realize that there’s a bigger toolbox out there.”
Netflix Signs Up Record Number Of New Subscribers In First Quarter
“The on-demand video company said Wednesday that it added a record 4.9 million customers from January to March, with more than half of that number coming from overseas. Netflix said its 62.3 million subscribers watched some 10 billion hours of programming during the first quarter.”
A Better Case For Supporting Movie Production With Tax Credits
“So, are tax credits a great way of supporting culture? Are they helping create Canadian films and Canadian video games? They may be, but that’s not really their purpose; their intention is simply to create jobs and thus generate a lot more tax revenue for government than was initially paid out.”
Do Smart People Worry More?
“The idea that worriers are cannier than average may just seem to make sense—a worried mind is a searching mind, and smarter people may have the cognitive agility to examine multiple angles of any situation, for better or worse.”
Let’s Just Drop The Term ‘Fringe Theatre’
Lyn Gardner: “Ditching the label ‘fringe’ would put all theatre-makers on an equal footing, wherever they work and in whatever form. It would stop the segmentation of audiences into those who do fringe and those who don’t. It would prevent grant-makers and funders from taking refuge in the labels, and saying ‘Well we don’t fund that kind of theatre, we only fund this kind of theatre’.”
Barnes Foundation To Merge With Erstwhile Rival
“Ending an often testy and sometimes distant 25-year coexistence, the Barnes Foundation will merge with the foundation established by the estate of Violette de Mazia, Albert C. Barnes’ longtime colleague.”
Lincoln Center’s Ex-Chairman Has A Memoir Coming – And He Names Names
Reynold Levy’s They Told Me Not to Take That Job: Tumult, Betrayal, Heroics, and the Transformation of Lincoln Center “may not quite reach you’ll-never-eat-lunch-in-this-town-again levels but could make for some awkward encounters.”
Dudamel And Rattle Have Some Competition In The Brilliant-Maestro-With-Wild-Hair Category
David Patrick Stearns meets Stéphane Denève: “I used to have my hair short, but then I neglected my hair, and that’s how it came to be longer. Later, I wanted to cut my hair, but my agent said, ‘No, no, no. It’s now a recognizable package, and I’m selling the whole package.’ … There’s a study to be done on conductors and hair.”