MAKING ART
“I have a noisy mind, and when I am directing, my mind is not so noisy,” she said. “I was like, I have to keep doing this.”
Onstage and Off, Whitney White Is Everywhere This Spring
I thought about how it might alienate some people. But I just felt like, well, if you don't want to alienate people, don't be an artist.
critics, fans, and subjects (with tavi gevinson)
Narrative is a way of giving not only shape and coherence to chaos, but progress and closure; its absence creates a feeling of endless languishing.
Tony Tulathimutte • The Rejection Plot
A story that begins with closure can never end.
Tony Tulathimutte • The Rejection Plot

A Manifesto by Martin Parr — Ten Rules of Photography for Emerging Photographers
Martin Parrwepresent.wetransfer.com
Finally, here are 5 lessons I learned from directing in 2024 (if you have time, please send me the lessons you learned this year from your own practice):
5. If you are scared of something, have great collaborators and they will pull you towards it.**
4. You can never know what is going on with someone else and since it is usually more than you can i... See more
5. If you are scared of something, have great collaborators and they will pull you towards it.**
4. You can never know what is going on with someone else and since it is usually more than you can i... See more
Art is the Highest Form of Hope
When we embody a classic play like The Bacchae , I am interested in including the history of the play and all of its previous productions into our consideration about how to stage it it today. For example: If playing Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire , do you pretend that Marlon Brando never performed the role? What do you do with the ghost and m... See more
Genevieve Trainor • Five questions with: Director Anne Bogart - Little Village
“Listening is a basic ingredient of attention, and it can be learned and
practiced. Listening is fueled by interest and curiosity. It is a discipline
and an action in the world, and the results are nearly magical. Hearing
can restore. To be heard, really heard by another person, is to be healed.”
― Anne Bogart, And Then, You Act: Making Art in an Unpr... See more
practiced. Listening is fueled by interest and curiosity. It is a discipline
and an action in the world, and the results are nearly magical. Hearing
can restore. To be heard, really heard by another person, is to be healed.”
― Anne Bogart, And Then, You Act: Making Art in an Unpr... See more