“I don’t think any of us are in a position to judge what someone else does to try to manage his health or an illness. … We each have different capacities for managing ill health. If this is the way he thinks he can do that, then that’s his choice.”
Month: January 2013
Opera Colorado, Facing A Big Deficit, Cuts Way Back
“The move postpones the world premiere of ‘The Scarlet Letter,’ which was set to debut in May, for at least two years. The opera, based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, was the centerpiece of the upcoming season and has been highly touted in ads and banners across the region.”
How Munich’s New Public Art Could Beat Berlin’s Massive Appeal
Well … “It’s an optimistic, maybe naive hope to get people into the streets again.”
When A Director Casts An Actor Known To Be A Train Wreck
Self-delusion abounds on the set of The Canyons, a low-budget film that director Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver), writer Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho), and actor Lindsay Lohan (um, Parent Trap & a whole lot more) hope will resuscitate their Hollywood careers.
One Of Britain’s Electronic Music Pioneers (And The Writer Of The Theme For Doctor Who)
“The Coventry-born composer was part of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in the 1960s, where she created sounds which would influence pop and electronic music for decades to come.”
Video Game Makers Try To Fend Off Post-Newtown Legislation
“The $60 billion industry is facing intense political pressure from an unlikely alliance of critics who say that violent imagery in video games has contributed to a culture of violence.”
Artists Facing Financial Facts In The Twin Cities
The Twin Cities are great for artists in many ways. Except for the money thing. “You have little chance of making the orchestras; acting jobs rarely last for an entire year; the average dancer earns about $7,000 annually; visual artists live by what they can sell; full-time choral work is extremely rare.”
Bringing Passion To Dance In Los Angeles
Philanthropist Gloria Kaufman: “I could’ve given money to a lot of different things, which I do, but I thought, this is something that brings joy, and I don’t think we have enough of it. I wanted to make a change. I wanted to make kids and people happy, because I was happy.”
How Can Visual And Theatre People Get (It) Together in DC?
“Artisphere is a beautiful building filled with all sorts of exciting rooms: galleries, ballrooms, black box theatre, classrooms, and space for artists and audiences to intertwine. On their website they describe the space as ‘designed for people and art to collide.'”
Cleveland Museum Goes 21st Century With A Vengeance
“The techniques developed in Cleveland — if successful — might be adopted later by bigger museums on the coasts, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, they said.”