“It’s nice to be asked to do something with the underworld and not in a country house or to sit weeping in my kitchen.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
This Digital Publisher Has Survived For Four Years – And Learned A Lot Along The Way
For instance: “Videos shouldn’t be confused with book trailers. ‘The author is the brand. The title is not the brand.'”
Can An ‘Alt-Arts’ Space Survive NY Housing Codes, And Bills?
“They did things that impulsive do-it-yourselfers are not supposed to do: they made a budget (albeit, on a piece of salvaged sheetrock), found investors and spent more than $150,000 on interior construction.”
Celebrating National Tap Dance Day (Yes, There Is Such A Thing)
Dean Barlow: “So much of tap dancing today, I love it, [but] it’s all pounding holes in to the floor in one place. … When you see Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly dance, they dance for the people. Today, dancers are dancing for dancers.”
Surprising Winners At The Cannes Film Festival
“Perhaps the biggest surprise of the night was the best director award doing to 34-year-old Mexican director Amat Escalante, whose ‘Heli’ unnerved many with scenes of torture involving a flambéed penis and a strangled puppy.”
Huge St. Petersburg Choir Aims To Break A Record
“The 4,335 singers of all ages and from nearly all of the city’s professional and amateur choirs sang from the steps of St. Isaac’s Cathedral before thousands of spectators under an intermittent rain.”
‘Mary Tyler Moore’ Still Inspiring, More Than 40 Years On
“One of the early and lone champions of the show at CBS was Ethel Winant. She was the only woman in the sort of executive ranks, and so there was an executive bathroom, but there was only one. … So she would leave her high heels outside the door so that men knew she was in there, because there was no lock on the door either.”
Dancer Who Lost A Foot At Boston Marathon Makes Plans To Dance – And Run – Again
“Doctors had amputated her left foot and then decided the lower leg couldn’t be saved, either. Haslet still finds reason to be grateful. ‘They decided because of my dancing, they kept a lot of my calf muscle, so I’m very happy,’ she says, adding that she is eager to be fitted for a prosthetic so she can start dancing again.”
The Private Curator Behind A Big Cubist Gift To The Met
“Mr. Lauder ultimately decides which works to buy. But each addition to his cubist collection has been preceded by in-depth conversations with Ms. Braun, whom Mr. Lauder described as ‘my partner and teacher and mentor.'”
The Young British Artists Are Now In Their 50s. What Does Tracey Emin Think Of That?
“With the cigarettes, that’s so weird because I don’t smoke anymore. I haven’t had sex for years, and there’s this condom. God, there’s a tampon, and I haven’t had a period for years. There’s my ex-boyfriend’s marijuana, I would never be with anyone who smokes marijuana now; there’s a whiskey bottle, and I don’t drink spirits.”