“It’s an imaginative, empathetic exercise, and we could probably all do with a little bit of that. Particularly in this time of social media and polarisation and fake news stories and who we choose to follow making us more extreme. We’re growing further apart. Here is one of the few places we actually have a communal, social experience. Now, more than ever, theatre has not just a possible role but an obligation to preserve these pockets of unmediated, unpoliticised, social, communal, empathetic works.”
Art In A Time Of Crisis (What To Do?)
How should artists respond in times of crisis? Leonard Bernstein suggested burrowing deeper into art. “A generous interpretation of Bernstein’s words suggests that musicians can transform art’s political impact by doing what they’re already doing – only better. But I’m skeptical of the idea that a more perfect art can really bring into being a more perfect union. Bernstein makes vague allusions to Kennedy’s presumably political “goals,” but the only goals he names are musical ones: intensity, beauty, and devotion. Are these really the ultimate aims of musical performance in a time of violent crisis?”
Lucinda Childs Is 76, And She Thought She’d Left The Whole Running-A-Dance-Company Thing Behind, But –
“‘I sort of thought, well that was interesting, and it was great, and I had the 30 years in SoHo,’ she said before a rehearsal in Brooklyn last month. ‘I’m sort of moving on.’ That worked for a while.”
Metropolitan Opera Guild Wants To Have The Mother Of All Rummage Sales
The Guild “is seeking permission in court to sell off a memorabilia collection – with an estimated value of more than $1 million – that includes a gold cigarette holder that belonged to the bass Ezio Pinza; a jeweled baton owned by the composer Richard Wagner; and a silver, ivory and diamond pen that was used by the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer.” But they’ll need a court’s permission to do it.
When Ballet Dancers Get Inked
Dancers can cover their tats with makeup, but there are some challenges: “Covering tattoos in more exposed areas isn’t easy. Dancers not only sweat, but they have to lift, catch and clutch one another, which means damp body parts and makeup rubbing against expensive, difficult-to-clean costumes.”
Why Are Costume Designers Shafted When It Comes To Representation – And Money?
Basically: “Given our gendered views on who makes clothing and how much their time is worth, it is telling that in the female dominated, garment-based field of costume design, designers are expected to act not only as designer, but also (still) as laborer.”
This Year’s National Book Award-Winning Author: Write The Book That Terrifies You
Colson Whitehead had his idea for The Underground Railroad many years ago, but he says he wasn’t ready to write it until now. “I always have these ideas, and I think, ‘That would be really good; if I was a better writer, I could pull it off.’ And then I try to become a better writer to do it justice.”
How The Artistic Director Of Alvin Ailey Got His First Pair Of Dance Shoes
Robert Battle’s family didn’t have a lot of money when he was in elementary school, so when his mom made sure he had his dance shoes before starting lessons, it was a big deal: “I would even sleep with them. Just by putting them on, I had the keys to what I was hoping to become.”
What’s It Like To Be The Barefoot Contessa With A Fairytale Marriage And A Huge Cookbook Empire?
Is this massive profile about a cookbook author? About a long marriage that is idealized online? About a celebrity? About the election? About race, class and gender – and balsamic vinegar? (Yes.)
Venice Has Become A Replica Of Itself
Today, visitors outnumber Venetians by 140 to 1. If tourism development continues apace, the city center may soon have no residential lodging at all. Among the institutions that have closed since 2000 along the Grand Canal: the National Research Council, the Mediocredito bank, the transport authority, the local education agency, the German Consulate. Souvenir shops have replaced grocery stores. Luxury hotels have replaced medical offices. “A tourist monoculture now dominates a city, which banishes its native citizens and shackles the survival of those who remain to their willingness to serve.”
How Vancouver Opera Is Navigating Uncharted Waters To What It Hopes Is The Future Of Opera
Last year the company announced it was moving to a festival format. General Director Kim Gaynor: “I don’t want to abandon our presence throughout the year. The festival I really believe in because a festival allows you to do things you can’t do in a regular season. But at the same time, we must maintain our traditional audience until they die or they go to Florida or Mexico to retire. We must do that because those audiences still are the lifeblood of the organization.”
McKinsey Study: Automation Will Eliminate A High Number Of Jobs In Coming Decades (Maybe Yours)
“McKinsey estimates that about 45% of all activities in the economy can be automated. How many people will that affect? They estimate that bots can pick up about a third of all the work in 60% of occupations. That figure is based on technologies that already exist and are in use, not capabilities that may arrive in the future. Global trends already show that the growth of jobs is starting to decline or even dip into the negatives in countries around the world; now robots are poised to take more work away.”
Literature Glamorizes Madness As Some Sort Of Insight To The Human Condition. The Reality Is Somewhat Different
“Madness”, in the terms dictated by this rich literary history, bears no real relation to the objective reality of mental illness. The day to day business of mental illness is hard, boring and unrewarding, and though it can certainly provide benefits – increased empathy for other people’s pain, an ability to withstand intense periods of suffering – it rarely offers profound revelations about the human condition. “Madness”, on the other hand, sounds wild, romantic, even; a primal, primitive closeness to the essential truths of the universe.
Auction Houses See Steady Market (But Their Guarantees To Sellers Suggests…)
“Values can be inflated when auction houses offer competitive guarantees to secure major consignments. These guarantee can then be transferred to a third party, who will either buy a work at a sale, or be rewarded for their unsuccessful bidding. More recently, some third-party guarantors — called “irrevocable bidders” at Sotheby’s — have also been paid fees if they are the purchaser. These confidential arrangements, denoted by symbols in the catalog, can have the effect of deterring bidding in the salesroom.”
It’s Official: Pittsburgh Symphony Strike Is Over
The musicians are taking a sizable pay cut in the first year of the new contract’s five-year term, with salaries edging back upward later.
That Running Conversation You Have With Yourself Inside Your Head? It’s Called “Inner Speech” And We’re Learning About It
“I think it was assumed that inner speech was just this kind of monologue, the output of a solitary voice chattering away in your head. And we now think there are a few main kinds of inner speech. Inner speech varies according to how compressed it is, how condensed. We think inner speech varies according to how much it’s like a conversation between different points of view. We’re starting to tease apart these different qualities. And that fits with the idea that inner speech has a lot of different functions. It has a role in motivation, it has a role in emotional expression, it probably has a role in understanding our selves as selves.”
Poem Signed By Anne Frank Sells For $150,000
The eight-line poem, half of which was copied from a Dutch book of verse, is dated March 28, 1942, shortly before Anne and her family went into hiding from the Netherlands’ wartime Nazi occupiers in a secret apartment in an Amsterdam canal house.
These Are The Biggest Hollywood Flops Of 2016
Comedies accounted for 50% of the flops on this year’s list of least profitable movies. The worst performing funny film: horror comedy Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which made back just 58% ($16.4 million) of its estimated $28 million production budget at the box office.
Epic Movie About Legendary World War II Battle Opens In Russia, And People Argue About The Truth
And they’re arguing less about whether the version of the story in the film is true than about whether the truth matters.