“When I first visited in the 1970s, it seemed old-fashioned; among today’s ubiquitous white cube displays and curator-led, thematic shows, the abundance and randomness look radical. What museum curator now would dare present, say, as artist Alison Wilding has in the sculpture galleries, some hundred works assembled as if they had just fallen off a lorry into a storeroom?”
Author: ArtsJournal2
No, Really: Disney’s About Movies, And The New Hire Proves It
“You didn’t need a secret decoder ring to decipher the message Bob Iger sent to Hollywood this week when he announced the hiring of former Warner Bros. studio president Alan Horn as Disney’s new studio chief: Disney is back in the movie business.”
Not Actually Science Fiction Anymore: Innovations Of The Present/Future
Want electronic clothes? A video game on your subway strap? Your laptop as part of the kitchen table? These innovations, and more, are all coming – and for some people, they’re already here.
Fewer Emmy Awards Means (Slightly) More Competition
It’s getting rough out there for a TV actor: “Starting with the 2013 awards, each category for outstanding actor in a miniseries or TV movie and outstanding actress in a miniseries or movie will have six nominees, equal to other performing categories. Previously, there were four movie and miniseries acting categories with five nominees each.”
A Successful DIY Touring Career For Composer/Cellist Zoë Keating
Keating: “You have to give yourself permission to play your own music. It doesn’t seem valid somehow; it doesn’t seem like real music. It’s like, ‘Well, I’m just playing. I’m making up this stuff.’ And I had a really long period of that, of feeling like there were all these different buckets. There was the music that I would play that was classical–the stuff that I was learning, or that I was being judged on, or graded for. Then there was music that I listened to, which was mostly popular music, that I would sometimes try and work out on the cello. And then there was the music that I would improvise or that was just my own. And they were all very separate.”
Yes, That’s A Big Column Of Steam For The Olympics
The pillar of steam “is planned to rise 1.2m (2 km) into the air above the Wirral waterfront on the Mersey, standing at Birkenhead’s East Dock directly opposite the Pier Head in Liverpool.”
Why The U.S. Should (Or Shouldn’t) Have A Monarch
In all the splendor of Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee, the U.S. might be feeling a little left out. What do we miss out on by not having a queen (or king)?
The Return Of Oprah (Or, At Least, The Book Club)
Publishers rejoice across the land (and possibly across the world) as Oprah Winfrey brings back her book club, revamped for the digital age and ready to confer crazy great sales on every book she touches.
Sound Dude For Shakespeare (And Everybody Else, Too)
“For all his scavenger skills,[Todd] Barton hopes he doesn’t distract audiences. ‘I don’t want you going out humming tunes, because then I’ve brought too much attention to myself,’ he says. ‘I’m vodka. I enhance whatever you put with me. If you put lemons in vodka you get essence of lemon. If you put a play in me, I enhance the story, propel the plot.'”
French Ballet Is Different – And Here’s How
“Showy individualism is typically rejected in favor of tradition. Almost every dancer studies at the Paris Opera Ballet School, leading to consistent training that must be maintained throughout a career.”