“When Canadian director and photographer Ryan Enn Hughes won a fellowship to explore the structural elements of moving image, he decided to marry film and photography by capturing the frozen movements of dance.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
China’s Censors And Online Satirists Play An Endless Cat-And-Mouse Game
“To slip past censors, Chinese bloggers have become masters of comic subterfuge, cloaking their messages in protective layers of irony and satire. This is not a new concept, but it has erupted so powerfully that it now defines the ethos of the Internet in China.”
Product Placement Comes To Britain’s Prime-Time TV (Coronation Street, No Less)
“Residents of Coronation Street will rest easier knowing their money is no longer being held in a fictional bank, as British television’s first primetime product placement is set to appear on the soap in the form of a Nationwide ATM.”
Soprano Gets Shot And Robbed, Shows Up To Sing Opera Anyway
Stafford Hartman, a 24-year-old member of Opera Memphis’s young artists’ program, performed the role of the Shepherd Boy in the company’s production of Tosca this weekend – despite the fact that she had been shot twice by a robber three days earlier.
Satan In Scripture – He’s Much Less Scary Than He Is In The Exorcist
“Historians discover that the devil in the ancient texts is not nearly as frightening as the one who gives us the shakes in movies.”
Unknown Velazquez Spotted By Auction House
“It was due to go for sale as a portrait by the minor 19th-century British artist Matthew Shepperson, but – as the auction house Bonhams revealed on Thursday – it is nothing less than a previously unknown work by one of the greatest of all painters, Diego Velzáquez.”
Pakistan’s Imperiled Arts And Culture
“Art and artifacts are expressions of the intangible; they are by definition tenuous and fragile. Pakistani art and music poised at the cusp of actual annihilation is even more so.”
Bolshoi Ballet’s Latest Headache: Ticket-Scalpers
“[O]rdinary people lining up for tickets … saw most of the tickets snapped up by scalpers who had hired the homeless and the down-and-out to wait in line from the early morning hours to get the tickets.” Bolshoi general director Anatloy Iksanov says there’s no legal way to fight the problem.
English National Ballet Residency At Tate’s Picasso Show
“The English National Ballet is to take up residency at Tate Britain next February, to mark the opening of a new Picasso exhibition. Inspired by the artist’s costume and set design work with the Ballets Russes in 1919, the collaboration will see dancers take classes in the gallery. They will also rehearse and perform three new works inspired by the Picasso and Modern British Art exhibition.”
The Arab Spring And Arab Film
It hasn’t taken long for the political changes sweeping through the Arab world this year to be reflected in the region’s cinema. Documentaries about the uprisings have already started to appear, and even films that don’t treat the events directly are profoundly affected by them.