Jon Jerde “constructed thrilling, multi-levelled worlds connected by spiral staircases and swooping ramps, supercharged urban stage sets that sampled styles from across time and place with promiscuous glee. His brand of ‘place making’ has become the ubiquitous strategy for retail-led urban regeneration around the world.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
André Brink, Literary Lion And Anti-Apartheid Activist, Dead At 79
“The 79-year-old author, perhaps best known for his 1979 novel A Dry White Season which focused on the death in detention of a black activist and was filmed with Marlon Brando, was a literature professor at the University of Cape Town and had just received an honorary doctorate from the Université Catholique de Louvain.”
The Debate Around The Discovery And Publication Of Harper Lee’s First Novel
“What should have been a triumphant literary discovery — a find that could significantly add to the legacy of one of the country’s most cherished authors — quickly morphed into a puzzling controversy.”
What The Heck Happened To Adapting Movies From Novels?
“The novel is now in retreat — and not only in Hollywood — as screenwriters and moviegoers turn their gaze to movies based on established franchises, comic books, graphic novels, musicals, non-fiction books and magazine articles, TV shows, memoirs, and biographies.”
Georgia’s ‘Y’allywood’ Is Booming So Hard, There Aren’t Enough Crew Members To Keep Up
“Georgia officials are concerned that the worker shortage will drive filmmakers to other states.”
Michaela DePrince Doesn’t Have A Lot Of Hope That Ballet Will Become More Diverse
“There’s a dancer [Precious Adams] who was at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow – they told her to bleach her skin. She’s now doing very well at the English National Ballet, but often you look around, and there are no black dancers. Classical ballet is beautiful, but it’s very old.”
Religion And Geography Are Destiny For Theatres In Boston
“There are four factors that Boston’s 300-year-long struggle between censorship and commerce in the performing arts has produced. First, when we talk about theatre in Boston as it now exists, we are talking about a way of doing theatre that is only forty or so years old.”
What’s On Author Anne Tyler’s Nightstand?
“I keep only a New Yorker on my night stand, which I do my best to eke out over the space of an entire week. It distresses me that The New Yorker publishes just 47 issues a year, which makes the eking-out process a mathematical challenge.”
Lizabeth Scott, Siren Of Film Noir And Costar To Bogart, Dies At 92
“She had the goods: the luminous eyes and moist lips that belied a heart of stone, the slinky figure, the sculptured cheekbones, the cascading hair and husky voice suitable for torch songs or seductive close-ups.”
The Beautiful Brutalism Of Manchester
“A man called David taps me on the arm. ‘Do you know there’s a website called Fuck Yeah Brutalism,’ he whispers. Is that a fan site? ‘Of course,’ he say. What made him a brutalist? ‘Insipid modern buildings,’ he says. ‘I like the unloved.'”