“While professionals in architecture and urban conservation often show considerable enthusiasm for these buildings, a groundswell of popular affection is as yet a distant prospect. And in the meantime, there is less and less left to love.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Can The Overwhelming Social Context Of ‘Fruitvale Station’ Mask Its Weak Art?
“The film arrives in the moment after the predicted rage turned out to be something a lot stranger and more profound than flashes of fury.”
Will Random Penguin Hurt Authors? (Or Is It All Amazon’s Fault?)
“Although Penguin Random House insists it will continue to compete in auctions for authors’ work, not everyone is convinced. For serious non-fiction works, when Penguin and Random House’s Bodley Head are often the only two in the auction, competition will cease, says literary agent Clare Alexander.”
Another Pussy Riot Member Denied Parole
“A court in Saransk ruled that Nadezhda Tolokonnikova had not repented for her crime of hooliganism after singing a protest song against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s main cathedral.”
Will Theatre Criticism Go The Way Of The Walking Dead?
“The ‘zombie apocalypse’ would be represented by the elimination of all the theater critics, meaning theater would no longer be reviewed (or presumably covered). What would that mean?”
Genre-Busting Continues, But With Much Larger Economic Issues At Stake
“What was once a pointedly outsider and marginal activity — performance art, the creation of time-based work that defied definition and continuing exhibition — has become the everyday stuff of major museums.”
Just Say No To Huge Glowing Screens At Classical Events
In L.A.’s Hollywood Bowl, “the $1.5-million video system sullies music as much as electronic billboards in the mountains despoil nature.”
We’re All Publishers Now (Seriously – Check Out Gawker’s New System)
“The blog posts and re-blogged posts produced by readers are competing with the output of his own writers and editors for attention — and the result is something approaching a meritocracy of sorts, where the best content (theoretically) rises to the top.”
If You’re A ‘Genre’ Show, Good Luck Getting Those Emmy Nods
Hint to actors and writers: You’ll *never* be recognized for science fiction.
How Can The Blockbuster Be ‘Over’ When Hollywood Is Spitting Out Sequel After Sequel?
It’s the summer of doom for big-budget movies. So why doesn’t Hollywood change? (Really: Pirates of the Caribbean *5*?!)