Frieze has great location, a stellar reputation, excellent lighting, fantastic organization and good sales. Everything’s going well for the fair that moved across the pond this year.
Author: ArtsJournal2
Frieze Doesn’t Give A Crap About Workers (Or Artists, Really), And That’s Wrong
“How many different people do you have to shake to get art institutions and businesses to wake up? Our actions as employers affect the quality of life of others. We know this, in general art professionals vote for socially responsible policies, and yet our own labor practices are amongst the very worst across all disciplines. “
Why Would Anyone Want To Be Studio Chief At Disney?
As a matter of fact, no one seems to want it at all. Why? “The way things are presently organized, overseeing the Disney studio is a lot more like being a brand manager at Procter & Gamble than being a successor to Irving Thalberg, Robert Evans or any other fabled studio chief, let alone Walt Disney himself.”
New Instruments, And The Human Quest For Volume
“Humans have an irrepressible desire to be heard and also to experience music at a sufficient dynamic that it can be felt in a visceral sense.” (And that leads to some rather odd challenges for musicians.)
Kid Takes History Class, Finds Big Mistake In Map At The Met (Seriously)
“The map purported to show the Byzantine Empire at its largest size in the 6th century, but he noticed that Spain and part of Africa were missing from the depiction.
Benjamin Lerman Coady knew he was right, because he had just studied the empire in school before last summer’s trip to the museum with his mother. He was told to fill out a form.”
Met Live In HD Broadcasts Are Ruining Opera For Everyone
“For all the praise HD deserves, and it deserves a great deal, this disconnect is damning. What the audience in a movie theater experiences is not just the opposite of opera. It is the undoing of opera, an art form in which a present, active audience is fundamental.”
Timing Really Is Everything – In Film, Anyway
“Bam. Pow. Timing. The moral? Wait a beat. Don’t wink. Set up the moment properly. Whether it’s Grodin in deadpan or a computer-animated Marvel taking it out on another computer-animated Marvel, the audience can be putty in the right hands.”
We’re Out Of Touch – Literally – And A Machine Shows Us How
“Siu has created Touchy, a camera-like helmet that renders him blind. That is, until someone touches him. When actual physical contact is maintained for 10 seconds, the ‘human camera’ takes a photo and displays it on the back of the helmet.”
Newly Discovered Draft Pages Could Change Understanding Of The Little Prince
“Believed to date from 1941, the translucent, tissue-thin pages are filled with annotated writing, crossed out and underlined in sections. Saint-Exupéry experts authenticated the pages.” One of the pages contains a scene that never made it into the book.
Playing An Older Man – 50 Years Older – For Laughs
“TAKE a floppy-haired Muppet. Dress it as a waiter. Rearrange its face until its features slope to one side. Throw it across the room. Repeatedly. If that puppet came to life it might look something like the actor Tom Edden in the British comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, now on Broadway at the Music Box Theater.”