Marion Cotillard (“La Vie en Rose,” “Rust and Bone”), of appearing in “Anchorman 2”: “I’m a big fan of America comedies, especially Will Ferrell and all his team. And they have known that I was a fan, so they asked me if I would be a part of it, and of course I said yes right away. But I never question how people could see me.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Boston’s Celebrity Series Gets Random, Regular People To Become Highly Choreographed Dancers
“‘Le Grand Continental’ strives to include a cross-section of the community, and I saw little competition among the 59-year-old white male demographic. Ten days later I received notice to report to Boston Latin.”
In Los Angeles, The Fruit Tree As Art
“Whereas a bronze sculpture in the park was only going to reach and impact so many people, planting trees throughout the community was going to nourish a greater number of people.”
The Music Director Of Britain’s Royal Opera: This Elitist Label Is Bullshit
“Opera is so visceral, so emotional – and so incredibly thrilling when it’s good.”
After An Argument With Renzo Piano, Architect Quits On Academy Of Motion Pictures Museum
“Sources say the imperious 76-year-old Piano, 1998’s recipient of the Pritzker Prize (the highest honor in architecture) who has been an icon in the field since his joint design with Richard Rogers on Paris’ Centre Pompidou in 1971, clashed with 53-year-old Pali over unspecified creative and practical issues related to the project. “
The Most Famous (And The Longest) Battle Of WWI Was An Accident
“The air sagged under the sickening odor of rotting bodies, feces, and fear — fear of decimation, fear of poison gas, fear of being buried alive — all of which made for an especially intense sense of isolation and solitude, perhaps unique to Verdun.”
The Ineffable Something That Keeps (Some) Writers Famous Long After They Die
“The only reliable judge of a novel’s merits, as Martin Amis once declared, is that grim and exacting arbiter, posterity, and, set against the reckonings of the future, present applause is only a little light murmuring heard a long way off.”
A Wonderful, Almost Ideal Music Festival Dies For Lack Of Funds
“Spring for Music operated on the enlightened premise that audiences and artists alike should pay a little less attention to how orchestras play and more on what they play, and why they play it.”
Top AJBlogs For 05.11.14
“Teenager Art” Billboard in Bilboa Pisses-off Guggenheim
AJBlog: Aesthetic Grounds | Published 2014-05-11
Orchestral Music as Paradox
AJBlog: PostClassic | Published 2014-05-10
Weekend Extra: Nobody Else But Kern
AJBlog: RiffTides | Published 2014-05-11
Keep The Pre-Raphaelite, Sell Contemporary Art, Expert Says
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-05-11
Crack-Up: Taste, Anxiety and American Populism
AJBlog: We The Audience | Published 2014-05-11
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Why Are We So Incredibly Mixed Up About Art, Work, And Money?
“Yes, it’s taken for granted that creating is hard, but also that it’s somehow fundamentally unserious. Schoolchildren may be encouraged (at least rhetorically) to pursue their passions and cultivate their talents, but as they grow up, they are warned away from artistic careers.”