“The character of Los Angeles would be strikingly different. It would be a more public-minded, greener and perhaps a more equitable city than it is now.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
CBS Blocks Its Own Shows For, Uh, ‘Revenge’ On Time Warner
“When trying to access a full episode of any CBS show, like Elementary or Two and a Half Men, those with Time Warner Cable internet will see an attack ad instead of their normal programming.”
Are Humans Really The Only Animals That Can Dance?
That is, move to a beat? And if we’re not, is it only other “vocal learners” who can dance?
Can Sydney’s Museum Join The Ranks Of World-Class Institutions?
The new director sure hopes to transform the place with a capital campaign and expansion – and the effort, in what seems a nod to the Tate, is called “Sydney Modern.”
Highly Successful Playwright Says Austerity Could Be Good For The Arts
Mark Ravenhill: “Maybe the artist free of any relationship with any public funding body is freest of all?”
Opera Singer Injured In Fall Sues The Met
“She has nerve damage, and she is unable to sustain notes, and she has problems standing for long periods — all the physical requirements necessary to perform in an opera.”
When The Conductor Has A Sweaty Baton
“At a first rehearsal, musicians sitting at the back look at a conductor in the hope that he’ll look back at them occasionally. If they’re ignored for more than 10 minutes, they give up and retreat into their parts.”
And You Thought These Two British Artists Disliked Each Other
Actually, painter Francis Bacon asked sculptor Henry Moore *for art lessons.* Yep.
In London’s Manicured Olympic Park, Wilderness Is Taking Over
But that was the architects’ plan from the beginning: “‘Playgrounds should be for proper risk-taking,’ says co-designer Jeanette Emery-Wallis of Land Use Consultants, ‘and getting dirt under your fingernails.'”
A Hidebound Classical Music Fest Transforms Itself – And Could Inspire Others
Eleven years ago, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart festival looked ready to die an ugly, strike-ridden death. But now? “This once-hopeless festival has become an unlikely model of change.”