“The Old Vic’s audience is a baby-boomer one, and this casting is likely to be good box office and attract an age group that is increasingly used to seeing plays and movies directly aimed at its wallets.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Taking Fiction Out Of The Curriculum: Remarkably Stupid Idea
“The first time I write in a new format–travel essay, screenplay, apology e-mail–I read a bunch of examples. But when I want my writing to improve, I read something that forces me to think about words differently.”
Wave Goodbye To Catcher in the Rye and Hello To The Invasive Plant Inventory
“A new school curriculum which will affect 46 out of 50 states will make it compulsory for at least 70 per cent of books studied to be non-fiction, in an effort to ready pupils for the workplace.”
When Manhattan Had A Powerhouse Film Studio
How Buster Keaton got into the movies while walking on Broadway (yes, literally).
The Scottish Play As A Subway Map? The Digital Bard, Continued
“The last few components of the My Shakespeare project, surveying all Bard-related activity online, are just starting to emerge, and they cover an extraordinary breadth of formats, from online and physical artworks to new renderings and visualisations of sonnets and plays.”
So That YouTube View Is Worth How Much? (Ask Psy)
Even if your video gets a billion views, that’s not where the money comes from.
The Whole 48-Frames-Per-Second Thing, Explained
What’s up with The Hobbit‘s supposedly revolutionary film frames thing? And why was film always – well, mostly – 24 FPS before? Follow the money.
Here, Look At Some More Niemeyer Buildings
“At a time when modernist architecture was characterized by ‘rational’ right angles, Niemeyer took his inspiration from Brazil’s beaches, rivers, ocean waves, and women. (He was always mentioning the women.)”
Niemeyer’s Brasilia: Beautiful, But What About Functional?
“The problem is that it’s not a city. It’s that simple. The issue is not whether it’s a good city or a bad city. It’s just not a city. It doesn’t have the ingredients of a city: messy streets, people living above shops, and offices nearby.”
Theatre Director To Culture Minister: Take Some Time To Engage With The Arts
Donmar Warehouse director Josie Rourke “said ten years of investment in the arts under the previous government had ‘provided the most unbelievable infrastructure,’ and expressed concern that the coalition ‘might be at the point of endangering that.'”