Will this be the summer – yes, this summer, even though you’ve heard it a million times before – when Hollywood finally realizes that people over 30 love to go to the movies?
Author: ArtsJournal2
As The Olympics Near, London’s East End Transforms (Somewhat)
London’s East End “is persistently seen as other – as mysterious and threatening, as an orphan child prompting pity, as something unknowable which must therefore be tamed by stereotypes. It has lent itself to exploitation on a large scale, from the high-walled and ferociously defended docks, to Fortress Wapping, as the base of Rupert Murdoch’s News International was once called. Grand gestures are repeatedly imposed from outside, whose aims are at once charitable and controlling.” Will the 2012 Olympics be any different?
Denver, Where DIY Means Build Your Own (Stunning) Guitar
“The instruments often are no-going-back kind of propositions: Make a good one, and you’ll never buy a guitar from the rack again. Denver tech worker Tracy Leveque, 46, has built several guitars, but he said the the last, which he built under Dick’s instruction, was especially fabulous. Still, he sometimes visits guitar shops, and goes straight to the lock-and-key rooms where guitars begin at $5,000, and gives them a whirl. ‘And nothing compares,’ he said. ‘I never found something I would buy.'”
Happiness Is (Spending Money On) Other People
Until people in the U.S. make around $75,000, their happiness goes up with every step up the ladder. After that, the only way to be happy is to put that extra money in the service of others (and not just your kids).
Protesting Oil Company Sponsorship With A Wind Turbine At The Tate Modern
Protestors carried parts of a wind turbine blade into the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall and asked that curators include it as part of the permanent collection – to protest what they see as the garish obviousness with which BP (formerly British Petroleum) sponsors the museum.
The Twists And Turns Of Germany’s Most Complex Art Restitution Case
Michael Hulton wants justice. By that, he means “his inheritance, which consists of works of art that Flechtheim owned and either went missing or had to be sold during the Nazi era. They consist of 11 paintings and six works on paper, which are now owned by German museums, including works by Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann and Paul Klee.” But when did Hulton’s great-uncle really sell the art? And will the museums ever agree?
Dementia Finishes The Long Career of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
The writer’s brother says that GarcÃa Márquez’s decline is partly due to cancer treatment: “Chemotherapy saved his life, but it also destroyed many neurons, many defences and cells, and accelerated the process. But he still has the humour, joy and enthusiasm that he has always had.”
A Digital-Ready Theatre Readies To Stream Everything, Including Rehearsals
“The decision to live-stream video from different parts of the building is part of a wider move by the east London theatre to make its redesigned website more ‘democratic.’ Theatre Royal artistic director Kerry Michael said the new video stream would act ‘like a shop window.'”
How’s The Twin Cities’ New (Well, Restored) Dance Venue Doing?
After a year, the Cowles Center for Dance has sold almost 30,000 tickets – and played to less than capacity on many dance nights. Still, say dance groups, it’s a fabulous space. Now can they do better next year?
Hey Sponsors: Hands Off Our Stages!
“Today’s funders ask: ‘How can you help us to deliver our vision?’ Someone ought to tell them: ‘Surely it’s the other way round.'”