“French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand said at a press conference today (30th March) that he understood publishers’ and authors’ exasperation over ‘certain practices (by Google) that remain’. But he added that he would not act to defuse the situation because it was a question of private law.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Kate Whoriskey Goes Solo Early At Intiman
So much for Whoriskey working in tandem “with outgoing Artistic Director Bartlett Sher over the next theater season before fully taking the reins in 2011.” Already, “Whoriskey is … the theater’s sole artistic director.”
Are Artists Forgotten In The Arts’ Economic Argument?
When NEA chief Rocco Landesman came to town, no one “mentioned the absence of direct federal support for artists” or “brought up the dissolution of Pennsylvania’s individual artist fellowships.” As one local artist put it later: “It seems that culture and art are important as long as they redevelop neighborhoods or have some quantifiable measure.”
Gauging The Worth Of Previews
“Previews right before opening of a big show are often the best performances to attend. The opening-night countdown is on. Nobody is missing a show. Anticipation is in the air. The bosses are still in the room, raising everybody’s game. There is that almost spiritual sense of creativity.” But there are drawbacks, too, to seeing a show before it opens.
A.L. Kennedy Urges You To Plan That Novel — Really Plan It
“We could just swim off into one without planning, of course we could – we could just stick our arms into woodchippers, or paint ourselves with molten lead – there’s no end to the ludicrous and self-harming things we, as human beings, could get up to.”
Canada’s 2-Year Fest Stimulus Deserves Permanent Status
“All across Canada, people who operate festivals are waiting for an announcement from the minister of tourism and small business. At the same time, they are also apprehensive because this is the second and final year of a short-term program the federal government clearly labelled ‘stimulus’ only.” There are strong reasons the program should live on.
How To Win A Pritzker Prize
Step one: Do not be bashful. (A historical anecdote.)
The Curious Functions Of The Encore
“Departing from the printed program, it gets listeners to sit up and take notice, speculating on what’s to come, trying to figure out what they’ve heard. In a way, it puts the audience into a more active role” — even as tradition says “that critics don’t review encores — indeed, often enough, that they leave the auditorium before them.”
Arguing With Robert Hughes’s The Mona Lisa Curse
Peter Plagens: “I walked up to Canal Street a couple of weeks ago to buy a porn video and was ripped off. When I got home and opened the DVD case, instead of the advertised ‘Naughty Stewardesses,’ Part VI, there before my eyes was a disc containing a documentary film by the renown art critic, Robert Hughes…. (This is my official cover story….)”
June Havoc, Gypsy‘s ‘Baby June,’ Dies
“Ms. Havoc took strong exception to ‘Gypsy’ and wrote three well-received memoirs to make her point. She resented how ‘Gypsy’ made her mother seem abrasive but ultimately good-hearted,” and she “was aghast at how the show appeared to demote her to a secondary character when she was in fact the high-kicking star of the act.”