“More funding should be put into the arts not less, says the artistic director of Europe’s largest arts complex, London’s Southbank Centre.”
Month: January 2013
Do We Really Understand How Revolutionary The Internet Is?
“As the network of networks–the “inter-network”–the Internet is a revolution of revolutions.”
Trying To Figure Out Dave Hickey
“What strikes anyone who has seriously studied Hickey’s essays is the incompatibility of his ideas about beauty with an art world, and an art-education establishment, absorbed in abstract theory.”
Race Is On To Beat Pirated Architecture In China
“It is possible that the Chongqing pirates got hold of some digital files or renderings of the project.”
Adapting Words For Screen Is A Challenge
Revisions are not any easier when the starting point involves someone else’s words.
The Vienna Philharmonic’s Battle With Integration
“At 11 a.m. on the first day of the year, critics automatically scan the Musikvereinsaal stage to see how many women have been permitted to join the main event. In January 2012, there were just two, an apparent act of defiance against public punition.”
California Newspaper Bucks Trend And Expands
“It feels like a throwback to an earlier era at the Orange County Register, where a first-time newspaper owner is defying conventional wisdom by spending heavily to expand the printed edition and playing down digital formats.”
Wicked Sets New Broadway Record
The Broadway League reported Wednesday that the nine-year-old “Wicked” took in a whopping $2,947,172 over nine performances last week, which is the highest single-week gross of any show in Broadway history.
Women Authors Sweep All Five Categories In Costa Awards
“Mary Talbot’s Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, which was illustrated by her husband Bryan, a veteran of the comic genre, won biography of the year while Hilary Mantel won the novel award for Bring Up the Bodies; Francesca Segal won first novel for The Innocents; Kathleen Jamie’s The Overhaul came first in poetry, and Sally Gardner’s Maggot Moon was named children’s book of the year.
Ugandan Court Throws Out Case Against Director Of Gay Play
“A Ugandan court has dismissed the case against a British theatre producer who faced two years in jail for staging a play about homosexuality. David Cecil was charged with ‘disobeying lawful orders’ from Uganda’s media council after performances of the play went ahead despite intervention from the regulators.”