Justin Cronin didn’t expect his not-really-but-sort-of-a-vampire novel The Passage to get quite the attention it did – but now he’s got two sequels in the works, and a movie deal. How does that even work for a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop?
Author: ArtsJournal2
New Indie Movies Coming To A Theater Very, Very Close To You
That is, in your living room – on demand.
The Issues – And The Debt – Run Deep At The Chicago Symphony
“Ticket sales and performance fees from CSO concerts cover only about half the cost of putting them on. Salaries and the cost of providing benefits for top musicians are rising while revenues remain flat. And the CSO is burdened with more debt than any other major symphony in the country, in large part thanks to a $110 million renovation of Symphony Center, completed in 1997.”
Ah, The Smell of Ink And Glue
What is up with our fetish for print?
Do We Need Professional Critics At All?
God, yes. Wait: Not so much, actually. Finally, adapt or die.
Denver Loading Dock Wins Architecture Prize
“When good design shows up in places where no one thinks it will — and where no one might actually notice if it was missing — that has to say something positive about a city’s self-esteem. And frankly, its good taste.”
MoMA Wants To Save The Past – On, And Of, Film
“Even as preservation work proliferates, opportunities to see the films in question continue to dwindle, as studios cut back on their ‘deep library’releases to home video, black-and-white movies vanish from television, and even museums and revival houses turn more and more to the digital presentation of films through hard-drive digital cinema packages.”
How Does A Musician ‘Sign’ A Download?
On a social media meetup, of course.
Night Lights Interfering With Turrell’s Skyspace at Rice University
“The issue of the IM lights adversely affecting the Turrell Skyspace became apparent toward the end of the spring semester of 2012, when several IM games had to be rescheduled to accommodate the sunset light shows at Turrell Skyspace.”
Rothko Defaced At Tate Modern
A man tagged Mark Rothko’s Seagram murals at 3:15 p.m. on Sunday, and then left the building. The museum was evacuated.