“We’re trying to concentrate on how to get back the love of our audience. We need to sit down and play the music we love.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
interactivity May Be Beautiful, But It’s Also Exhausting – And Boring
“The graphics may be beautiful, but pausing every few minutes to pan around a room or take in a vista of London makes the whole storytelling business desperately slow.”
Commission, Compose, And Perform The Occasional Cheeseburger
“There is a dearth of musical ‘cheeseburgers’ in contemporary concert music today.” (And that’s a problem.)
Turning Bushwick Into One Big (Legal) Street Art Gallery
“Most people want to hold onto their past as it was, but Mr. Ficalora has found greater comfort in obliterating it, bathing the neighborhood in paint.”
Making Movies With One Eye (Or Maybe Both) On Beijing
“With just 34 foreign imports allowed to compete for China’s rapidly expanding cinema market in any given year, … drastic acts of appeasement are becoming commonplace.”
Frederic Franklin, 98, Ballet Star Whose Theatricality Never Flagged
Franklin was “a charismatic British-born dancer and ballet master who was known for his stylistic versatility and his inexhaustible energy — he performed into his 90s.”
The Poet’s Last Name Is Van Winkle …
No, we have no actual jokes about his one-on-one poetry performances putting people to sleep (apparently, though, his 15-minute poem bombs make people cry).
Sharing Your Space With Many Others, Working Alone
“This was supposed to be the age of the mobile (a k a nonexistent) office, with ‘solopreneurs’ telecommuting from home or the beach in elastic-waist pants. But many who work independently are discovering alienation lurking behind the home-office fantasy.”
Academy Shakes Itself Up, Changes Oscars Voting Rules
But the move may result in members voting on movies they haven’t watched.
Peter Sellars: ‘The Only Solutions Are Going To Be Creative Ones’
“The humanities are all about activating your justice sensors and also about the empowerment of not just sitting there but actually realizing we’re all on Earth to be creative, to change things, to make powerful transformations in our lives and the world around us.”