“Meet Jon Fosse, the angst-filled Norwegian journalist and novelist who turned to playwriting in his 30s and now, at 53, finds himself among the favorites to win this year’s prize.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Bill Eppridge, 75, Who Captured On Film The Death Of RFK
“He photographed Latin American revolutions, the Woodstock music festival, the civil rights movement. After three civil rights workers were killed by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in 1964, he and a reporter lived with the family of one of the victims, James Chaney, for a day or two.”
Are Magazines Designed For Tablets Doomed To Fail Amid So Many Other Apps?
“The average smartphone user opens only eight apps a day, with the most popular being Facebook, YouTube and game apps. And according to a 2012 report from Localytics, 22 percent of all apps are only opened once.”
Ole Miss Football Players Disrupt Performance Of ‘The Laramie Project’
After calling out homophobic slurs, the football players “were subsequently asked to apologize for their actions but were ‘taking pictures of cast members while making fun of them, talking on their cell phones, hollering at the females in the cast and talking to other audience members during the acts,’ per the play’s performance report.”
What Happens When A Theatre Town Like Chicago Loses Some Major Criticism Venues?
“Without the support, the audience reach, and visibility to these smaller groups that established critical resources provide, the game changes significantly. A huge aspect of what has been drawing young, exciting artists to Chicago has shrunk.”
Sidney Lanier, 90, Who Turned His Church Into A Space For Experimental Theatre
“His congregation, which had never numbered more than 25, grew in the next few years to include a kind of nonsectarian contingent of writers, performers and, eventually, 3,500 season-ticket subscribers.”
One Way To Profit from E-books (Hey, Big Publishers? Take Note)
“Success in digital publishing, say Endeavour’s founders, lies in volume (outsourcing editing and cover design, they publish eight titles a week and are hoping to reach 10 by Christmas) and flexibility with pricing.”
Carlo Lizzani, 91, Italian Screenwriter And Neorealist Filmmaker
“He knew how to create a nucleus of young students and experts that would represent in future years the true elite. The world of Italian cinema owes him a lot.”
Is London’s Frieze Fair Elitist?
One of Britian’s official war artists says that Frieze “is too selective and has an unhealthy relationship with the contemporary art establishment, particularly Tate Modern. There is now an inner circle, he argues, that puts other visual artists at a disadvantage.”
Shocker: It’s Not So Easy Transforming A Movie Into A Musical
“As more and more films are becoming Broadway source material, the graveyard is littered with musicals in which screenwriters have proved incapable of separating themselves from their original scripts to meet the demands of the stage.”