“‘It’s becoming quite apparent to us that the world of playing the perfect music to people and the world of playing perfect advertising to them are strikingly similar,’ says Eric Bieschke, Pandora’s chief scientist.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Tribute Bands: How And Why?
“While artists performing others’ songs is as old as pop and rock itself, over the past couple of decades the faithful reinterpretation of earlier groups’ repertoires, looks and quirks, even appropriately-accented onstage chat, has become big business and a process whereby the greats of the past are presented to new generations of fans.”
The Real Real Estate Of Edith Wharton’s ‘Age Of Innocence’
“Much of the 1920 book is centered on Mary Jones’s remarkable row of stone houses on Fifth Avenue, from 57th to 58th Street. But almost absent from Wharton’s writings is Mary’s sister Rebecca Jones, who built an equally impressive row just two blocks south.”
Robert Indiana’s Career Was Made, And Ruined, By LOVE
“In 1968, Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art bought a painting called LOVE — and made artist Robert Indiana famous. It became a sculpture, a stamp, greeting cards. And it obliterated the rest of Indiana’s career. The artist has been pretty much ignored by the art world for the past few decades.”
Censorship Takes Away The Gay In Egyptian Film
“When Hany Fawzy finished editing ‘Family Secrets’, he thought he had made one of the first Egyptian films to focus primarily on homosexuality. Then Egypt’s censors watched it.”
Blood Is In At The Theatre, But Making Blood Is The Fun Part?
“I special order blood, build pneumatic delivery systems, cobble together elaborate systems of bags and tubes and valves from medical, veterinary, cooking, and industrial parts to solve simple stage moments that need to look effortless but are exceptionally complicated theatrical moments.”
Will Its Sound Make ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ An Academy Fave?
“There are 240 members in the Academy’s music branch, which includes Mr. Burnett, and if those members come to view ‘Llewyn Davis’ as a tribute to the enduring power of their own craft, the film will be well on its way.”
‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Wins Big At National Society Of Film Critics
“Joel and Ethan Coen’s darkly comic odyssey set against the 1960s New York folk-music scene swept the National Society of Film Critics’ top prizes on Saturday, winning awards for picture, director, actor Oscar Isaac and cinematography.”
The Globe Gets A Companion Indoor Theatre, Lit By Candles
“It’s not a reconstruction of one particular theatre – it’s an archetype of the kind of indoor spaces in which the late romances of Shakespeare, the dark revenge plays of John Webster and the satirical city comedies of Ben Jonson would have been performed.”
Oscar Documentary Short List Looks To Political Films
“They include excoriating cinematic treatments of Indonesian death squads, evangelical homophobia in Uganda, the uprising in Tahrir Square and an attack on the incarceration of orca whales in marine parks” – and an already-banned-in-Moscow doco about Pussy Riot.