“‘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.'”
Author: ArtsJournal2
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.”
How Amazon Ended Up As Literary Enemy No. 1 (And What Happens Next)
“It wasn’t always this way. When Amazon first appeared, in the mid-90s, mailing books out of the Seattle garage of its founder, Jeff Bezos, it was greeted with enthusiasm. The company seemed like a useful counterweight to the big bookstore chains that had come to dominate the book-retailing landscape.”
When Richard Avedon Photographed The Fall Of The Berlin Wall
“A thousand years from now when history textbooks will allocate to the Cold War a mere couple of paragraphs, the text should be illustrated by one Berlin Wall photograph. For by seizing this singular moment in history, Richard Avedon exposed in the faces of his subjects the stress and the pain behind the wall and the related historical events.”
The Reason ‘Raising Arizona’ Star Holly Hunter Is Working On A Zillion Different Kind Of Projects
“Zack asked me. He came to me with an offer, and I was like, ‘Yeah, that would be fun.’ It’s fun to mix it up.”
When A Wagner Can’t Have Bayreuth, She’ll Take Beethoven Instead
“She wouldn’t mind if she were asked less about her great-grandfather and more about Liszt, whose daughter Cosima married Richard Wagner in 1870, making the composer Nike Wagner’s great-great-grandfather.”
If You Highlight A Phrase In An E-Book, Research Can Tell You When You’re Not Alone
“Even if we sometimes turn to fiction for help with our lives, we may also be reading for passages that pull us, as Mr. Siegel puts it, back into the infinite.”
Humans Learn By Imitation – Or Else We Die
“It’s time to retire the notion of genius and all the baggage that comes with it: the exaltation of big brains, the story of progress as a grand parade of exceptional thinkers, the myth that innovation happens with a lightning bolt of insight. We can stop worshipping at the altar of disruption.”
London’s Booming Immersive Theatre Scene Might Indicate A Bit Of A Problem With Escapism
“Immersive theatre producers ‘put audience members centre stage’ in an apparently tailored experience, including audiences in the action ‘to make their “escapist” experience all the more unique and personal to them.'”