No, we don’t either. Why hasn’t the 22-year-old “new” designation worked?
Author: ArtsJournal2
Romney’s Threat To Cut Arts Funding Is Just Another Yawner
“Talking about cutting arts funding is a diversionary tactic, both in terms of the amount of money that would actually be saved by doing so, and in terms of a philosophical discussion about what the proper funding of government is.”
Want To See A ‘Real’ Slap Onstage? Bad Idea
A fight director says the illusion is actully better (plus, no danger of broken cheekbones for those pretty, pretty actors!).
How To Write A Sequel (Or A Prequel, For That Matter)
“Don’t tread too hard on the heels of the original. Take the original text as a stable thing — and have serious fun with it. Imitation may be a sincere form of flattery, but something more ambitious than imitation is far more honoring.”
Watching A Dance Film? You’ll See Some Politics For Sure
Dance movies “have long been silent vehicles for politics, delivering revolutionary morals to unsuspecting dance fans for years.”
Remembering Martha Graham, Just In Case You’d Forgotten
“Nothing was simple about Martha Graham–the life or the work.” A new biography highlights both the contradictions and the threads of connection.
Harry Harrison, 87, The Man Who Invented Soylent Green
“Flights of fancy were Harrison’s stock in trade. A coal-fired flying boat? A submarine to Mars? No problem. He imagined taking a time machine to the future and finding no one there. In his 1966 novel Make Room! Make Room!, which was translated to the screen as Soylent Green in 1973, he painted a dystopian nightmare of too many people scrambling for too few resources.”
Thomas Hardy Comes To The Opera, But The Adaptation Was Violent
“There are times when murdering someone else’s darlings is a more harrowing process than murdering one’s own. Adapting for the opera stage probably involves more blood-shed than usual, but the nature of that transformation does require – and therefore offers – greater freedoms.”
Nope, Apple TV Won’t Disrupt Cable
“Analysts thrilled by the idea that Apple wants to get into TV have convinced themselves that they can untie the cable bundle, and give us when-we-want-it-how-we-want-it video the same way it changed the music industry 12 years ago. But they are missing something important.”
Is This What They Call Winning?
What happens when a songwriter claims her work was stolen, represents herself, and doesn’t provide solid evidence? The case turns into a New York version of Jarndyce v Jarndyce.