So, it appears that the Yale artist‘s claims were false, reports The New York Times. Umm…ok. I kinda question Shvarts’s motives. She set up a hoax, got national media attention, then retracts her story, and now she’s calling it art. That kind of ex post facto excuse didn’t work for Winona Ryder when, after getting [...]
This Just In: You Can’t Spell Abortion Without A…R…and T
We’re going to avoid being reactionary about this one. But here it is, for your consideration, from the Yale Daily News: For senior, abortion a medium for art, political discourse Art major Aliza Shvarts ’08 wants to make a statement. Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a [...]
Know When To Say When
Yo yo. So, it’s not usually my style to single out dances for being, well, bad. I usually amp up the bitchiness when something thinks it’s way better than it is. I try not to kick something when it’s down. But after Tuesday night…at The Kirov, it finally occurred to me that there is this [...]
Don’t Hate Us Because We’re Beautiful
…Or because we haven’t blogged in like, a million years. Just checking in to let y’all know that C.C. has been putting major hours in on various other projects. I know LOTS is going on, and we are keeping up with it, just haven’t had the time to mouth off about any of it. The [...]
TO DO: CANDIDE
Ok, y’all. Now this is a rare occasion. I’m posting a “TO DO” for a major venue. But you must, I mean, MUST go see Candide at NYC Opera. It opens tonight and runs for about a week and a half. Now, I haven’t seen this production, so, I can’t speak for that (it is, [...]
JFC
Think I’ve got the message figured: Another critic down… Related posts: DEBORAH JOWITT FIRED FROM THE VILLAGE VOICE Uh-Oh Spighettio
Ring Around The Family Circle
The Times is reporting that The Met has ended its unofficial policy of giving Ringtards (or Ringnuts or Ringheads or whatever you want to call the mass of fanatics who roam the world in search of the latest iteration of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle) priority access to future productions of the operatic tetralogy. Needless to say, [...]
Cognitive Dissonance
Apropos a discussion happening on this post, The Times is running an interesting article about a new theory that challenges the bulk of “cognitive dissonance” studies that rationalize preference. Basically, the new theory suggests that how most studies have been conducted–by giving monkeys or other test animals a large selection of like items, then taking [...]
Culture Clash
A C.C. tipster sent us this link to a conversation that’s happening over at the Brooklyn Philharmonic’s YouTube group between potential applicants for the orchestra’s “Believe You Can Win” contest and the Philharmonic. It turns out the initial legal language of the contest rules had implied that simply by entering the competition–which asks video makers [...]
UPDATE: Top Fi’ty
C.C. did some more research into this “Top 50″ list, and it turns out that it wasn’t arrived at by counting number of hits (ours are quite respectable, actually; what’s average, six inches? six and a half?), but by number of links back to the blog, which you can get by Googling “link:[blog URL]“. We [...]
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