“Just think about it: most of the pieces of art are on screen for less than a second, yet each one had to be carefully selected or commissioned from scratch. It’s all a day’s work for under-praised production designers.”
Month: November 2014
Piecing Together A Smashed Renaissance Masterwork
“Adam’s plywood pedestal had buckled. ‘The head had come off,’ Mr. Soultanian said. ‘There were 28 recognizable pieces and hundreds of smaller fragments,’ he added, and skid marks on the torso where it slid across the patio floor.”
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How The Met’s Chorus Recently Became A Vital Part Of The Opera Again
“‘What’s palpably different is that the commitment and the vitality of the group have been ignited again, and it functions very, very thrillingly,’ James Levine, the Met’s music director, said.”
Disney Has Made Fairy Tales Much Less Scary – But Authors And Illustrators Are Taking Them Back
“I also find Hans Christian Anderson himself fascinating, because he’s such an unworked out man. He was dyslexic, he was gay, he had a big chip on his shoulder, he was extraordinary and very visual – and he did something with fairy tales that was completely different.”
When A Blockbuster Movie Deals In The Space-Time Continuum, The Science Can Get A Little Wacky
“‘Most people would agree that a person who jumps into a black hole is doomed,’ says Columbia University cosmologist and best-selling author Brian Greene, ‘but if the black hole is big enough, you wouldn’t get spaghettified right away.'”
West End Avoids Strikes As Pay Deal Reached (For Now)
“The meeting went on into the early hours of the morning, but both organisations finally agreed on a deal that will run for 36 months.”
What Will Happen To L.A.’s Marionette Theatre When A New Development Builds Around It?
“‘We plan on using some area with puppetry as its theme,’ said Albert, whose resume includes mixed-use apartment complexes throughout Los Angeles. ‘There may be an area where people who want puppet shows can carry on that tradition.'”
Which Creative Teams Produce More Dystopian Fiction – Hollywood, Or Political Ad-makers?
“Predictably, the most watched negative ads of today borrow popular tropes and visual cues from mass market fiction; witness the hazmat-and-corpse heavy spot (shades of Outbreak, Walking Dead) about how Republican budget cuts will get you killed by Ebola, which has collected hundreds of thousands of YouTube views.”
Despite The Terrible Art World And The Horrors Of War, Art Still Offers Hope
Peter Seibt: “War is not peace and the price of something is not the value. In short, the market is not the art. Cynicism is not creation. But we are not at all rendered helpless by this billion-dollar industry. Instead we created a radical art project. This has brought us great joy in the making and the sharing of art.”