“Some artists want their work to stay up forever. For me it’s part of the game, you don’t know if it will stay up or if you will be arrested.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Alice Munro And The Vindication Of The Short Story
“Maybe I write stories that people get very involved in, maybe it is the complexity and the lives presented in them. I hope they are a good read. I hope they move people.”
Orhan Panuk’s Museum Of Innocence Is 500 Days Old: How’s It Doing?
“As the violence snowballed and spilled onto the streets I walked past the museum door, looked at the building’s red facade and tried imagining the silence inside.”
Despite Labor Disputes, Minnesota Orchestra Gets Grammy Nomination
“The nomination, in the Best Orchestral Performance category, is its second in two years.”
Could We Get Some Actual Women Onscreen, Please?
“Women rarely appear as women – they appear as sex objects or as ersatz men – sometimes both at once.”
How Can The UK’s National Theatre Claim ‘National’ Status?
London sucks up most of the air – and definitely most of the money – for the arts in the UK. Can the National Theatre somehow reach “the country’s furthest flung corners”?
Can L.A. Theatres Of All Sizes Band Together To Reach More Audiences?
“We’ve already had meetings about visioning and marketing and branding and talking about what we want L.A. theater to look like in 30 years.”
To Succeed In Ballet, Know You’ll Have To Struggle And Fail
Principal ballerina Lauren Cuthbertson: “It can be quite lonely. Sometimes you can feel isolated because you are the only one in your group of friends that really understands what you need to do to get to the next level.”
Is It Fanfic If A ‘Real’ Writer Does It?
“That impulse — to find out more about minor or secondary characters — has inspired many books over the years.”
Why Did James Franco Make A ‘Pornographic Arthouse Film’?
“He is keen to rebel against the beige treatment of sex in mainstream cinema: the soft stroking of hairless limbs, the passionate kiss that cuts to a dishevelled duvet, the straight-sex, softcore-only policies.”