“‘Katie’s like a translator,’ said Jasmine Solano, 27, the featured D.J. at the W that Saturday evening. ‘She can translate artist language into corporate planning. That’s not easy to do.'”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Scholar-Tramp Of Shakespeare, And The Things He Discovered
“In his log-cabin retreat Halliwell-Phillipps kept, and obsessively curated, his huge collection of ‘Shakespearean rarities’. This consisted of ‘about fifteen hundred separate articles’ – a cornucopia of manuscript papers and parchments, early quarto editions, play-bills, portraits, maps and curios carved from the sacred mulberry tree.”
Why Aren’t Americans Writing About Pakistan, A Pakistani Writer Asks
Kamila Shamsie: “I am deeply critical of American writers for their total failure to engage with the American empire. It’s a completely shocking failure.”
Wonder Woman Was Supposed To Save The World For Peace. What Happened?
“The Golden Age of comics was chock-full of angry, violent male superheroes, so Marston created an alternative. He believed that women were superior to men, and that they would soon take over the world and usher in an age of peaceful matriarchy. Wonder Woman was his way to prepare young minds for the idea of a strong, capable woman, so as to better facilitate the coming matriarchy.”
Guess What, Audiences? Those (Non-Equity) Actors Probably Aren’t Paid
“That hot four-star show? Those incredible performances? Surely, those actors are getting paid, right? Usually not. Or if they are, it is a flat-fee stipend of a couple hundred dollars for the entire run (rates vary among theaters) that might average out to $30 or $40 a week. That’s not including all those weeks of rehearsal, which come with no wages at all.”
Hollywood Decides Christians Have Money, Should Have Movies
“Persuading religious leaders to talk up the movies in a church setting as a means of sparking larger conversations about spiritual uplift has become a top priority in creating the kind of pre-release awareness that can lead to massive ticket sales.”
Say Goodbye To The American Folk Museum’s Façade
“On Monday, scaffolding and protective netting will begin to go up around the folk art building, at 45 West 53rd Street,” according to MoMA. “The building’s facade will be removed first, panel by panel, and taken to storage. Its future remains uncertain. Demolition is expected to continue through the summer.”
Putting The F Back In Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
“There was the shy bookworm my mother described, and the charismatic young literary star who drank with F. Scott Fitzgerald my uncle remembered being told stories about. The Skull and Bones member. The World War II spy. The man who took Carl Jung’s hand at an open window in his study and astral projected over the skies of Manhattan. The short-tempered redhead. The gay, closeted alcoholic. The failed poet. The fading not-quite retiree who read manuscripts at his apartment on 96th Street until he died.”
In Mexico, Artists Can Pay Taxes With Their Art
“As legend has it, muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, one of the most influential artists of his generation, approached the secretariat of finance in 1957 with a proposal to keep a friend and fellow artist out of jail for tax evasion: Let him pay his debt in art.”
San Diego Opera Hires A PR Person To Deal With All The Publicity
“Fabiani’s many clients have included Lance Armstrong, who hired Fabiani during the doping scandal that plagued the cyclist; and Goldman Sachs, for whom he worked when the firm faced fraud charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission.”