“Everything is presented in bright, flashy neon lights to complement your selection of music. Enemies explode into tiny glittering music notes when they die. You can shoot music notes.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Von Freeman, 88, Master Of The Tenor Sax
“Mr. Freeman’s playing was characterized by emotional fire (he was so intense he once bit his mouthpiece clean off); a huge sound (this, he said, took root in strip clubs where the band played from behind a curtain); and singular musical ideas.”
Dear Academy: How Jazz Improv Really Works
“Improvisation is still a mystery to many non-jazz trained musicians and intellectuals who want to quantify, and possibly codify, the elements and techniques that go into it.”
Art Competition In New York Ends Up All Wet
At Rockaway Beach in Queens, artists picked by a public arts group build sand-castle art – “to be stomped or filled in by nightfall.”
Is The World Ready For A Nikola Tesla Museum, At Last?
Seems like it: The Oatmeal’s “Let’s build a goddamned Tesla museum” campaign raised more than half a million dollars in the 48 hours after it began.
That One Time I Destroyed A Jeff Koons Piece …
John Powers: “My job was simple: Paint by numbers. The most intricate sections required miniature brushes, sizes 0 and 00, their bristles no longer than an eyelash. The goal was to hand-fashion a flat, seamless surface that appeared to have been manufactured by machine, which meant there could be no visible brush strokes, no blending, no mistakes.”
Tipping – It’s Destroying Democracy
Or maybe the ubiquity of tip jars is more an example of how the U.S. is deeply failing its workforce – and its understanding of its founding ideals.
Brent Grulke, 51, Creative Director of South by Southwest
Playing at SXSW can change a band’s career, and Brent Grulke was in charge of the bookings. “Not recommended for making an impression — though each had been tried at least once — was bombarding Mr. Grulke’s office with kegs of beer, smoked salmon, assorted strippers and a toilet bowl filled with Tootsie Rolls.”
The Demons Of Dancer Sergei Polunin
The Ukranian dancer who simply up and left England’s Royal Ballet in January finally talks about what happened – and why he had to go.
Some Drive-In Movie Theatres Are Like Energizer Bunnies
They just keep going even when an array of cultural forces line up against them. Why is this 1950s-era experience still around?