“For more than 90 years, Exorcism was believed to be lost forever. Then Yale’s Beinecke Library got a call from a dealer who said he had a copy of the manuscript.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Theatres, Take Your Tweet Seats And Shove ‘Em
“Twitter will not solve your problems. It won’t solve your declining patronage. It won’t update your unhip image. It won’t make your aging subscriber base young again. Worked as part of a coherent strategy, by a staff and creative leadership that is not petrified by the very things that social media enforces (two-way communication, natural voice, access), it can certainly help. But as long as the generation of art tyrants who have the nation’s theater in crabby lock-down retain their positions, this is unlikely to happen.”
Why Doesn’t Hunger Games‘ Panem Have The Internet? Deliberate ‘Tech Gap,’ Obviously
“Uneven technological development is a staple of science fiction because it implies a society, and a government, that has lost its way or has mistaken priorities,” Hicks said, “And as a result unjustly divides technological resources, or uses those resources to control the populace in inappropriate ways.”
Cris Alexander, 92, Actor And Photographer Of The Big City
Alexander came to the city to be an actor, and indeed got cast in On the Town. But he “made it in New York as a photographer, taking portraits of the likes of Martha Graham and Vivien Leigh; having gallery shows; working for Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine and the New York City Ballet; and providing droll pictures for the best-selling 1961 satire of a movie star’s memoir, Little Me, written by Patrick Dennis and later adapted for the Broadway stage by Neil Simon. And he found love.”
Time To Stop Shopping At Sotheby’s?
“The collective bargaining of the art handlers’ union is one of the few remaining guarantees of fairness in the art world, and Sotheby’s is doing everything they can to eliminate it.”
Making A New Firebird Fly
Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky has a job on his hands with the American Ballet Theatre’s reimagining of Firebird. “More than a few choreographers have been burned by the score, but Ratmansky has a firm grip on Slavic storytelling using classical ballet vocabulary toward dramatic means. At his best, he summons music, emotion and technique to create illustrious images onstage.”
Insuring Against Any Movie Set Risk, Including Bears
Before The Hunger Games started filming, “Holehouse traveled to North Carolina to check out the location, deep within DuPont State Forest. He took into account bugs, poison ivy, falling trees — anything that might pose a threat to the actors or the production schedule. He considered a chase scene across fast-running water, as well as the dangers posed by abandoned warehouses that were used as part of the set — and, of course, all swords, arrows and other weaponry.”
Can The New University Of Chicago Arts Center Change Hyde Park?
“Nothing quite like it, in fact, ever has arisen in the Chicago area, and no one knows for sure exactly how the place will operate. The learning curve will begin Monday, when students begin pouring into a most unusual complex that dares to combine classrooms, performing arts spaces, movie theater, rehearsal rooms, art gallery and you-name-it.”
The Ubiquitous QR Code Goes High Art
“The objects themselves look interesting, like Mondrians meeting pixellation, but they also point to quirky conceptual phrases. ‘qr.7947423,’ for instance, tells me: ‘I’ve Never Enjoyed the Price of Freedom.'”
Getting That Mad Men Music Right
Oops. Someone wasn’t paying quite enough attention to music release dates in earlier seasons of Mad Men.. That’s hard to believe, given the show’s penchant for accuracy – and now it’s fixed.