“Live and ‘hand-raised’ pigeons are confined in a room filled with copper wires and transistor radios emitting white noise from unused frequencies.” It’s all part of an exhibition – and animal rights activists are not amused.
Author: ArtsJournal2
A Good Episcopalian Boy, Living For Yiddish Theatre
“It’s not easy being the top non-Jew in the Yiddish theater. There are those letters to ‘Miss Sheyna Baker’ and the constant questions about why he would want to steep himself in Yiddish.”
Who Lies In Online Dating? Everyone, Even The Companies
“For nearly 50 years, ever since computers were first used to help college kids hook up, people assumed, or hoped, that the fact of technology as mediator would mean not just more dates but better dates. The Great God Computer must know something we don’t, the thinking went. It just must. The notion became a wonderful marketing tool–red meat for the media.”
How To Succeed In E-books? Sell Sex, Of Course
At least in Canada, erotic e-books bring in the money. “Customers are starting to discover them and finding that they can read certain books that they do not want other people to see and in privacy,” says the woman who runs eXtasy Books.
When Parker Posey’s Worried About Indie Films, It’s Time To Get Stressed
“(Independent movies) used to be made to say something, to make us question our culture, to wake us up. But I don’t see that anymore,” says Parker, star of such indie faves as television’s Parks and Rec and many a Christopher Guest movie.
Eiko Ishioka, 73, Designer Of Costumes For ‘Spider-Man’
She won an Oscar for her design of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Dracula” in 1992, but the designer didn’t stop with movies. “Ishioka spread her talent across a variety of genres. She tried her hand at opera, designing the set and costumes for Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle at the Netherlands National Opera, and she directed Bjork’s controversial music video for the 2002 single Cocoon.”
Two Big Entertainment Unions Vote To Join Forces
Both SAG and AFTRA boards voted overwhelmingly to merge the two entertainment groups into one. Now the merger idea goes before the memberships, which together are comprised of about 175,000 actors, extras, stunt performers, singers, dancers, broadcast journalists and talk show hosts.
Dance Movies Before ‘Pina’ (Yes, They Do Exist)
“I once asked Alvin Ailey about a particularly unfortunate video shoot and he shrugged, saying that directors who can get the financing for dance projects aren’t always the ones who can do right by the artists involved.”
Taking A Second Look At Gertrude Stein – And Finding A Lot To Like
“Not every ‘genius’ is equally suffocated by the label. Readers know the extraordinary reputations of Shakespeare and Virginia Woolf, but some prefer ‘Richard III’ to ‘Richard II,’ or ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ to ‘Orlando.’ They feel at liberty to discriminate. Fewer readers imagine they can create their own Stein; many feel she is beyond their capacity to understand.”
Inventing The Modern Blockbuster – Picasso At The Tate In 1960
The 1960 Picasso show at the Tate not only sold record numbers of catalogues and saw record numbers of patrons through the turnstiles; it reinvented what Britain thought of its place on the world stage – and changed the lives of artists like David Hockney, who’s now got a blockbuster of his own. Thank god the “ladies’ committee” pulled off the sangria.