“The Colorado Ballet spent a full dozen years planning its new headquarters, and meandering around the handsome, three-story building, it seems the company got everything on its wish list.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Can Getty Images Turn Free Photos Into Money?
As Getty Images makes photos free via a new app,”the person who owns the copyright — the contributor, the one whose creativity made the image — is not getting anything from this.”
So What Exactly Is It About Young Adult Literature That Gets Certain Critics So Upset?
“The idea that pleasure should be relegated to adolescence seems a dreary recipe for adulthood indeed, but whose pleasure, exactly, are we discussing here? What of people who have been persecuted solely on the basis of their pleasures, for daring to be joyful in bodies regulated and punished for those pleasures by the apparatus of the state?”
And In Chicago, David Bowie Is The Focus Of One Of The Most Expensive ‘Art’ Exhibits Ever
“Asked if staff at the MCA was feeling full-court pressure, Erica Erdmann, senior preparer of exhibitions, said: ‘Everyone here loves David Bowie. No matter what.'”
This Film (And Its Landmark Behind-The-Scenes Reels) Sat Unnoticed In MoMA’s Archives For Almost A Century
“It is a rare visual depiction of middle-class black characters from an era when lynchings and stereotyped black images were commonplace. What’s more, the material features Bert Williams, the first black superstar on Broadway.”
Does ‘Immersive Theatre’ Even Mean Anything Anymore?
“Standing around watching a show in a room that appears to have been designed by an Oxford Street store window dresser doesn’t magically make the audience experience something immersive, no matter how many stuffed animals you incorporate into the set.”
Screenwriters Flee Hollywood For The More Prestigious World Of TV Writing
“There’s not that big a variety in the types of movies that get made. People don’t take a chance on material as much as they used to. The kind of character-driven stories that we were making in the late ’90s and 2000s — all that stuff has moved to cable.”
Downtown Theatres Shouldn’t Just Be Placeholders Waiting For Rich Developers To Come Along
“It’s that same old sad story that’s playing out in cities across the United States as capital flows back into downtown: Money talks, and local culture takes a walk. But before we throw up our hands and cue the world’s tiniest violin, it’s worth noting that it doesn’t have to be this way.”
Polly Bergen, Broadway Singer Who Starred In The Original ‘Cape Fear’ And Then Became ‘Madame President,’ Has Died
Bergen was 84. According to critic Rex Reed, “Bergen was a legendary ‘A-list, New York Oscar party host’ — he remembers watching the Oscars one year on Bergen’s bed while sitting in between Paul Newman and Lucille Ball — but Bergen was even more passionate about women’s rights.”
Why It’s So Easy To Buy Stereotypes In Fiction
What gets published by or about South Asians in the U.S.? “Mangoes, spices, and monsoons … saris, bangles, oppressive husbands/fathers, arranged marriages, grains of rice, jasmine, virgins, and a tacky, overproduced Bollywood dance of rejection and obsession with Western culture.”