“The teams rely on decades of experience, handcrafted tools, and creative techniques to fashion their massive sculptures. The team members are sculptors and artists and designers, but also doctors and lawyers. Though they spend weeks each year carving, nobody makes a living doing it.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Musical Theatre Influences The Set For The Biggest Movie Night Of ALl
“McLane said he looked to the style of repeating geometric patterns common to 1930s Busby Berkeley musicals. In Berkeley’s case, those patterns were often made up of dancers’ gyrating bodies. In McLane’s, they are composed of objects connected in some fashion to movies, including Oscar statuettes.”
89-Year-Old WWII Bomber Hero Is The Author Of A Zillion Romances
“Bill Spence, a grandfather from Ampleforth, North Yorkshire, … was told by his publishers that he would need to write under a female name in order for the books to sell.”
Britain’s Got A Misogyny Problem, Says Starchitect Zaha Hadid
“The British Iraqi, who is a former winner of Britain’s Stirling prize and the international Pritzker prize, said it was frequently assumed that a woman architect could not take on a big commercial project and that she was better suited to residential properties, public buildings or leisure centres.”
Taking A Conservatory To New Heights – And New T.V. Deals
The Colburn Conservatory of Music is only a decade old, and used to be a “well-kept secret” in L.A. That was before they hired a guy who knows how to brand.
In Germany, Demand For Higher Ed Degrees Drives Ghostwriters
“His own doctorate took five years and a great deal of sweat, passion and scholarship funds. In his current job, he has only needed about three months for every assignment, and so far all of them have been accepted by the universities.”
Hey Guys, Want To Sell Your ‘Used’ E-books? Amazon Is On It
“The most frightening thing about Amazon’s latest move is that it reminds us that it’s all too late. It is already Amazon’s world and we just live in it.”
Happy 100th, Armory Show, Art Exhibit That Changed America
“The most talked-about painting in the 1913 Armory Show deconstructed a human figure in abstract brown panels in overlapping motion. Marcel Duchamp’s Cubist-inspired Nude Descending a Staircase was famously described by one critic as ‘an explosion in a shingle factory.'”
How Much Violence Is Too Much On T.V.?
Castration scenes: That’s where we draw the line. (But what about guns and other, less intimate violence?)
Shadow Morton, 71, Producer, Songwriter, Leader of The Pack
“Possessed of a brazen, naïve genius — he played no instrument, could not read music and wrote his songs in his head — Mr. Morton was almost single-handedly responsible for the wild success of the Shangri-Las, the Queens girl group he introduced and propelled to international stardom.”