What, exactly, might the 10 best skies in art history be? The Observer tells us – and while some on the list will be no-brainers, others might surprise you.
Author: ArtsJournal2
You Want To Go Backstage At The Ballet? Get Online
The Royal Opera House jumps on the bandwagon of arts organizations that want young audiences live-tweeting and blogging ballet … especially a ballet that’s broadcast to more than 700 movie houses around the world.
E-book Customers May Be Happy For A While, But The Big Winner Will Be Amazon
And that’s not necessarily a good thing for authors – or readers.
Composer, Cellist, Parent, Avid Twitterer – When Does Zoë Keating Rest?
“The thing with writing music is you have some sort of an inspiration that makes you write a piece. But when you succeed writing music, it transcends things, so it can mean lots of different things at different times. If you think about the music you like to listen to, it probably doesn’t have just one meaning to you.”
Soprano Ani Maldjian Didn’t Pick Opera For Fame, But It’s Finding Her Anyway
“I remember doing this pop competition; I showed up, and there were, like, 5,000 singers. And they were all dressed up — I don’t even know how to describe it. They were not there because they cared about music, they were there because they wanted to be famous and get noticed. It just wasn’t me.”
Texas Art Fraud, To The Tune Of $3 Million
A Dallas couple pleads guilty to bilking another couple for millions with the premise that the fraudsters would “invest their money by making short-term loans to museums in Europe. These loans would be secured by pieces of artwork worth significantly more than the loan value.”
Child Actors Can Break A Film – Or Make It
Jean-Pierre Dardennes, one of the directors of the new The Kid With a Bike: “When a child without acting experience is on set — and this is not meant in any kind of derogatory way — he brings a presence like an animal, a cat. He is there.”
Jean Giraud, A.K.A. Moebius the Great Comics Artist, 73
The artist “was a bit player in Hollywood and a superstar of the page and canvas. The subtle paradox that tugs at the eye of his audience is that everything portrayed — the landscapes, denizens, technologies and even physics — is totally alien but also completely unified in presentation and rendered with the confident precision of a surveyor who has walked every inch of a property.”
Take As Much Vacation As You Want! (You Won’t, Because You’ll Be Too Busy Making Yourself Work)
“Unlimited vacation fosters productivity and loyalty because it favors results over input.” Turns out that when people have that much choice, they choose to work ridiculously hard – so hard that they have to be forced to take vacation.
New Artistic Director At Stratford Looks Exactly Like The Current Executive Director
That’s because he’s the same guy: Antoni Cimolino. This is “an earlier transfer of power than originally expected, as current artistic director Des McAnuff will now be leaving a year ahead of schedule.”