Manabu Noda(Japan)* A Finnish fellow theatre critic, Matti Linnavuori, once told me that middle-aged and older Finns have a lovely way of saying “How are you doing?” He gave me a good English translation, which goes like this: “Aren’t you
Cristina Modreanu(Romania)* In a lecture given at Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2013,[1]American philosopher Simon Critchley advanced the idea that artists working collectively nowadays should aspire to obtain through their art “an intensification of the possibility of truth.” The phrase
Matti Linnavuori(Finland)[1] If we critics are to survive, we should also get paid for what we do. In the internet, this is rarely the case. Meanwhile, the traditional print media no longer feels that carrying arts coverage adds to its