“It’s a niche, like anything else, but I think it’s alive and well.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
British Theatres Can’t Afford To Book Touring Companies
“When I see smashing new theatres that have come up in the last few years that are now just providing one-nighters, it’s tragic. I don’t know what you do about that – it is a huge, huge problem.”
Mickey Rooney, Legendary Actor And Box Office Smash, Dies At 93
“As adept at comedy as drama and an excellent singer and dancer, Rooney was regarded as the consummate entertainer. During a prolific career on stage and screen that spanned eight decades (‘I’ve been working all my life, but it seems longer,’ he once said), he was nominated for four Academy Awards.”
Why Don’t Some Of The Biggest Hits On Cable Get (A Lot) More Press?
“Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta, the crown jewel in its flagship franchise, swelled to a network-best 4.6 million viewers in February. The current season, one of the top five nonfiction series across all of cable, skews overwhelmingly African-American, at 68 percent. “
What Does Artist Anish Kapoor Think Of His London OlympicS Park Sculpture Now?
“The work comprises a central trunk that houses the lifts and viewing platforms around which curl massive loops of knotted red steel. ‘There was a lot of pressure to have it in grey like everything else in the park’ explains Kapoor. ‘So we had a quarrel and then it was made in red as we wanted.'”
The Time Warp Of Pompeii’s Dead
“Pompeii is not a fragment of lost time. It is lost time thrust into the present, wholesale. This is disconcerting, to say the least. There is no buffer in Pompeii, no visible signal of decay as there is in the normal ruin.”
Haul Out Your Dissertation, Because The Internet Wants Everything To Be Published
“As anyone who’s dug through the back stacks of old bookshops, or plumbed the single-copy depths of university libraries, knows: there is so much text out there. We have finally developed the tools to make it live forever.”
An Outlaw Artist Flees New York’s Gentrification – For Europe
“One of the last men who could credibly claim the title of Manhattan’s last bohemian had not only decided he was quitting the city, he also figured he could find a richer existence 4,000 miles away — in the Austrian Alps.”
So … Are Bookstores Dead?
No: “Like, come on, let’s calm down.”
Whoa: Watch As Google Maps Changes What You See When You’re In Another Country [VIDEO]
“What does Google Maps do? The service has found itself in many unwelcome geopolitical positions.”