“This is Tharp’s first collaboration with the Atlanta Ballet and represents a major milestone for the dance company as it seeks to shape a distinct repertory profile featuring some of the nation’s most influential choreographers. … [Working with Tharp is] pushing the company through a growth spurt that’s not without a few real-life trials.”
Month: February 2012
Arts Workers Need More Training And Investment, Says UK Government Report
“The creative industries suffer from an ‘under-investment in human capital’, have too few training opportunities and unfair access to jobs, according to a new report … written for the Creative Industries Council, co-chaired by culture secretary Jeremy Hunt and business secretary Vince Cable.”
The Dardenne Brothers On Directing Child Actors
“Many directors have said that you can’t direct a child. … It’s a delicate balancing act. If you direct or instruct him too much, he’s a child doing what an adult is telling him to do.”
Enemies Of Christo’s Colorado Project Make Last Stand
The battle against the artist’s plan to temporarily erect canopies of silver fabric over 42 miles of the Arkansas River in central Colorado is in its final skirmish, with the anti-Christo forces led by a group calling itself Rags Over the Arkansas River (ROAR).
Architecture, A Profession In Meltdown
“When the Great Recession dawned, architecture was the glamour profession of the creative class. … A once-thriving profession, one that requires considerable education and work ethic, and which has traditionally served a wide range of functions – designing mansions for the 1 percent as well as public libraries – is [now] in trouble.”
The World’s Most Read Newspaper Website Is No Longer NYTimes.com
“The most important thing to know about the Daily Mail‘s website (more properly called the Mail Online) is that it’s not really an online newspaper. That’s exactly why it’s so successful. Unlike traditional online newspapers, the Mail Online bears little resemblance to the British tabloid that spawned it.”
French Government Bans Film Advertising Posters For Being Too Risqué
France’s advertising regulators have ordered that ads for the new film Les Infidèles (which co-stars Jean Dujardin of The Artist) be taken down for what one commissioner called “an attack on the dignity of women”.
What The Posters For The Best Picture Nominees Should Really Say
The Guardian has mocked up a few entertaining suggestions. For example, a tagline and title for The Help: “You’re welcome, black people. – White People Solve Racism“
Cast The 2012 Republican Primary! (HBO, Are You Listening?)
It’s the party game for non-Super Bowl fans! When Newt Gingrich suggested this week – in all seriousness – that Brad Pitt should play him in a biopic, Slate staffers got the idea of deciding (a) which actor each candidate thinks should play him/her, and (b) which actor really should play which candidate.
How Iraq’s Great Universities Were Destroyed
“In just 20 years, then, the Iraqi university system went from being among the best in the Middle East to one of the worst. This extraordinary act of institutional destruction was largely accomplished by American leaders who told us that the US invasion of Iraq would bring modernity, development, and women’s rights. Instead, as political scientist Mark Duffield has observed, it has partly de-modernized that country.”