“As likely to cadge a cigarette from a student as to ask them to conjugate a Greek verb, Beard is opposed to the elite image of her subject. ‘The importance of Mary is that she is the living embodiment of the fact that classics isn’t just for posh people and men and in fact never has been.'”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Tonys Committee Rules On One Man, Two Guvnors
The work, a contemporary script based on a 1746 play, isn’t a revival, says the Broadway awards’ eligibility committee. “A committee member, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the eligibility discussions are private, said the view among several on the panel was that the One Man producers had been trying to manipulate the categories and avoid the crowded field competing for best play nominations.”
Artists Sometimes Lie, But What Does That Mean For Art Historians?
Although Georges Braque denied that his painting Vanitas I was about death or religion, some art historians think that he was probably lying. Whom – or what – to believe?
75 Years Of Cinecittà – A History And Slideshow
“Founded by Benito Mussolini in 1937 to film propaganda, Cinecittà was the site of 300 films in its first six years. During World War II, the Germans looted the studios, and from 1945 to 1947, Cinecittà was a displaced persons camp, but in the 1950s, American production companies in need of a cheap studio turned to southeast Rome. Hits such as La Dolce Vita, Ben Hur, Roman Holiday and War and Peace were filmed there. When the production of Cleopatra ran over budget in London, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the enormous cast finished the film at Cinecittà .”
Youth America Grand Prix: Is It Worth The Drama And Training? (Dancers Say Yes)
“Almost overnight, Youth America Grand Prix created a central ballet marketplace, and just as suddenly it upped the ante even higher on ballet’s infamously demanding training regimen. Competitions, though controversial, do have their supporters. They argue that contests give American students valuable performing experience, which they generally lack in comparison to their European counterparts.”
Coppers: Leda And The Swan Too Bestial For London
“The work is intended as modern depiction of the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan.
But a Metropolitan police officer who saw the Derrick Santini image from a bus was alarmed. He alerted his colleagues and two uniformed officers went to the gallery.” The sales director said, “They stood there and didn’t leave until we took the piece down.”
Time To Give In To Texting At The Movies? (It’s Happening Anyway, Right?)
“Texting at movies could work as a draw to some moviegoers. Maybe if theaters pitched it as a different kind of “interactive” experience – ITXT, if you will – so that everyone in the theater gets what they paid for. Maybe it could be one showing a day across theater chains with a special hashtag to link everyone at the showing. They could react and interact – and fill each other in on what they’re missing in the movie.”
Forget E-Book Lending; Now Libraries Lend E-Readers Themselves
Lending e-readers may only hasten the e-book checkouts at libraries: “The San Francisco Public Library told Wired that if its digital lending library were counted as a single physical branch location, its monthly checkouts would rank number eight among 26 individual branches.”
HBO Turns Up The Temperature On Documentaries
Sheila Nevins, head of HBO’s documentary programming: “We’re not the main reason people subscribe to HBO. In the documentary department, I like to think of us as off-off Broadway in way. In order to get on Broadway, you have to be really careful with your steps — you have to make sure they want to transfer you from Bleecker Street to 42nd Street. You just feel your own ground and get your footing more carefully.”
Theatre For Kids With (Super) Short Attention Spans
“The teacher said an awareness of the short attention spans of children with developmental disabilities was crucial to reaching them. She tries to divide her class into different activities lasting around 10 minutes each; at the recent class, because the theatrical signing and charade-type games were ‘really cooking,’ she said, she allowed them to run longer.”