Sarah Shippobotham worked with the actors who needed to speak in Orcish: “I love the ugliness of it. You have to be careful to not go too Russian because it had a sort of Russian feel, but the ‘L’ wasn’t as dark, like Russian. I was always thrilled when there was an Orcish scene.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
What The Living Hell With Hirst And Gagosian?
“The professional separation is reverberating through the art world like a Hollywood couple breakup.”
Stop With The Cameras In Traumatized Kids’ Faces
“It was arresting. It was heartbreaking. And it was rash, unnecessary and wrong. There is no good journalistic reason to put a child at a mass-murder scene on live TV, permission of the parents or not. There’s not even a bad-but-practical reason to do it.”
Locked-Out Minnesota Orchestra Keeps On Performing
Former concertmaster: “I feel like we’re on the brink of something big, and the question is for the community: How do they assess the worth of this orchestra and what it means to the city?”
Is Facebook Destroying Creativity?
That is, does the closed-to-non-Facebookers nature of its photo archives kill Creative Commons and the art of the remixed photograph?
Not The Biggest Shock: Rialto Bridge To Be Restored With Corporate Funds
“Mr. Rosso will foot the bill. In exchange, Mr. Rosso’s brands will get billboard placement on one of the city’s most famous monuments. Mr. Rosso said the ads would be non-intrusive ‘and creative — we hope to do something artistic,’ he said. He will also have access to city real estate for fashion shows and events.”
Want A Job With This Publisher? Your Life Must Basically Be Over, Then
Dalkey’s looking for workers, aka indentured servants, who “do not have any other commitments (personal or professional) that will interfere with their work at the Press (family obligations, writing, involvement with other organizations, degrees to be finished, holidays to be taken, weddings to attend in Rio, etc.”
Don’t You Bookish People Understand Satire?
“Since coming to Ireland, I’ve seen so many applications to Dalkey in which CVs list upwards of six internships, which tend to smack of ‘we looked, we evaluated, and didn’t think the person was good enough to keep’. And my 25 years of experience with interns has been very mixed.”
Is Literary Life Long-Dead In Manhattan?
“Not long ago I installed myself at the Algonquin, the Midtown hotel where Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott and others once traded juniper-infused barbs, and used it as a launching pad to crisscross the island for a few days, looking to see what’s left.”
Saying Goodbye To A Landmark Harlem Club (Thanks To NY’s Real Estate Market)
“The Lenox Lounge, where Billie Holiday had a table, Dizzy Gillespie played his trumpet, and James Baldwin soaked up the scene, where the burgundy leather couches, Art Deco light fixtures and zebra-print wallpaper stir up memories of other eras, and where, even now, everybody knows everybody, will close on Dec. 31.”