“I sat next to a woman who told me she had children and normally rushed home after work, but that she liked the idea of seeing a 50-minute show in her lunch hour. Tellingly, as a result of seeing a lunchtime show she was planning to see an evening show later in the month.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
A New Internship Lawsuit – This One Against Hollywood
“Uncompensated minions are as central to the movie business as private jets, splashy premieres and $200 lunches. But the Hollywood tradition is under assault.”
The Problems With Music Criticism
“Perhaps I would be a better critic if I took the time to consider the output of Justin Bieber on the critical scoring points that matter to me, independent of the mainstream media through which I disregard him, but you won’t convince me of that.”
Texting Is Like Totally So NOT Degrading Our Language
Actually, it’s making us far more polite: “We may not speak with the butter-toned exchanges of the characters on ‘Downton Abbey,’ but in substance our speech is in many ways more civilized.”
In A World Of Facebook And The NSA, Do We Own Our Identities – And Our Faces – Online?
“When the website suggests that you be tagged in a photo, what it actually does is compare a pre-created quantified dataset of your face to the newly uploaded image and measures how closely you match the identifiable subjects. Facebook keeps individual face templates in its databases to use over and over again.”
Yes, Young Adult Books *Are* Filled With Dangerous Ideas
“You were always under scrutiny, not just by God but by the eyes of the community which functioned as its own form of Secret Service. That you could meet communal judgment with defiance seemed radical.”
Will Music Once Again Fuse With The Art World?
“The art world took an earlier interest in such pioneering Minimalist composers as Philip Glass and Steve Reich than did the vast majority of musical and academic institutions, which were downright dismissive of the movement.”
Movies And TV Shows – And Now Actors – Are Fleeing To Georgia. What?
“‘Georgia’s just got everything you want—really great infrastructure, good crew, stages—for a big-budget film, and all the way down to the indies and TV series as well,’ says Dama Claire, an L.A.-based production executive.”
Book Not Selling? Just Retitle It And Repackage It, And Voilà!
“Sometimes a publisher hits the reset button on a book that has already been released, giving a title that might have been ignored, or overlooked, the first time around a second chance at success.”
Why Are Galleries In NY and LA So Overwhelmingly Male?
“Rather than dwell on the inequity, Hebron and her collaborators turned it into art – in most cases, a poster, though there is painting, quilting and assemblage as well.”