“His dancing style, today known as the Madiba dance, is still popular on the streets of Johannesburg.” [AUDIO]
Author: ArtsJournal2
Hollywood: Cast. More. Women.
“At the current rate, however, reaching a parity of female and male characters would take about 700 years.”
Reading Aloud Is Fun And Fast – And Lucrative For Actors
The founder of Audible claimed the company “employed 2,000 actors to read books last year, and he speculated that he was probably the largest single employer of actors in the New York area.”
Chinese Art Collectors Eager For Works on Paper
“As the supply of splashy paintings by brand-name artists like Picasso dries up, new and enthusiastic Asian collectors are jostling to acquire blue-chip works on paper.”
New L.A. Mayor Vows To Keep Film & TV Production In Town
“We need to market L.A. aggressively and creatively, to the whole world, as the gateway to the Pacific Rim, and the gateway to new ideas and innovations.”
How To Turn An Artist Invisible
“When the Suo Jia Cun Artist Village in suburban Beijing, where he worked as a sculptor’s assistant, was ‘forcibly demolished,’ as he puts it, Mr. Liu decided to protest. He camouflaged himself in the ruins with acrylic paints to illustrate resistance to movement.”
How (The Hell) Does An Activist Puppet Theater Survive For 50 Years?
The finances are precarious, but Bread and Puppet Theatre doesn’t seem to mind – because it’s too much fun: “We created a very powerful daffodil attack force with a daffodil navy and daffodil knights and daffodil weaponry and that’s going to fight the F-35 very effectively.”
Every Generation Gets The Zombie Media It Deserves
“There’s a shift from it being about a destructive world structure to being about, ‘What can we do to live within that reality and survive it?’ That’s probably because of the War on Terror, this endless war, endless threat. There’s no end in sight.”
Modernist Buildings Have Serious Fans – With Matching T-Shirts
“The goal of the [T-shirt] series is to help people rethink the city’s modernist heritage and give people who need no convincing an outlet to display their fandom.”
You Need Dancers? Recruit Your Musicians
“Suddenly, the conductor Alan Gilbert, wearing a long, satiny coat, leapt from the podium and turned to the audience, taking the role of the magician who introduces the three puppets he controls.”