“Audiences have become less impressed by the grandiose and are more at home with the intimate, informal and pop-up. There’s a new sort of energy you get at festivals and other events which theatre needs to tap into.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Fixing The Oscars (The Academy Actually Convenes A Discussion)
“A brief ‘save the date’ memo described a special event to be held in three cities — Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco — on May 4.”
David Simon Of ‘The Wire’ On The U.S. War On Drugs
That ‘war’ is one big fail (but perhaps not for the reasons you’d think).
The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial Isn’t Just Important in ‘House of Cards’
“Its relative obscurity today is unfortunate, because this monument is one of the greatest works of commemorative art this country has produced. More than a monument, it is a symbol both of Washington’s aspirations as a city at the dawn of the 20th century and of the nation’s increasing prominence at that same moment.”
Thomas McEvilley, 73, Critic And Scholar Who Shattered The Notion Of ‘Primitivism’
McEvilley’s review of a 1984 MoMA show, and the responses in Artforum, “were the opening salvos in an argument about multiculturalism that would define American art for the rest of the 1980s and ’90s. When the dust had settled, it was clear who the winner was, and it was also clear that a new era in thinking about art had begun.”
‘Broken Angel’ Architect Faces Eviction In Brooklyn
“The building now known as Broken Angel was an ordinary 19th-century brick structure until self-taught artist and sculptor Arthur Wood started building on top of it in the late 1970s. Now Wood faces eviction from his own masterpiece — a towering structure that looks like a cathedral built out of salvaged junk.”
Thanks For The Moleskine App, Bruce Chatwin
“Whereas everywhere I used to go in the course of what is laughingly called my work I met people who were toting Moleskine notebooks, now most of them have iPads. And – shock, horror! – they appear to be using them as notebooks.”
London Opera In ‘Crisis’ (And The U.S. Is Jealous)
“Together, London’s ‘crisis-ridden’ major opera companies are doing more of significance than all of the big-budget opera companies in America put together.”
Could D.C. Start Exporting Theatre?
“A positive reception in the outside world is not the be-all or end-all for a D.C.-bred play; in fact, some actors and others who have focused their careers on District stages shrug scornfully at the notion of out-of-town validation. Yet there is added psychic capital to be tallied.”
Scholars Tell Off Shakespeare Deniers
“Shakespeare academics have until now had their heads in the sand, hoping the doubts were ludicrous enough to fizzle out. However, they have been alarmed by the spread of authorship challenges in universities on both sides of the Atlantic.”