About four million children in the U.K., a third of the total number of kids, don’t own a book – and guess what? Boys are less likely to own a book than are girls.
Author: ArtsJournal2
[Language-Based] Art Makes/Stages A Comeback
Language-based art demands all of the brain but doesn’t get much love in the art world, at least not from the big spenders. But it’s coming back into vogue.
A Screenwriter With A Name And A Vision, And A Kid
Diablo Cody made a splash by writing “Juno.” Now the screenwriter spends her time trying to stay calm on the superhighway of fame.
The State Of The Arts On Television: Cultural Wasteland? (Not In Britain)
“In some art forms if not others, the coverage is no weaker than, say, 20 years ago. Because there are more channels it just looks as if there’s less. Obviously if you want ballet or opera on the telly, you can forget it, but classical music is in fitfully good nick.” And the South Bank Show is back!
The Internet: Force For (Or Of?) Evolution
“The Web isn’t just a truly extraordinary invention, it is the apex of human evolution — and the ultimate evolutionary adaptation.” Whoa. For real? (Yes.)
Just Another Year-End Best List — About Architecture
Who wins the Guardian’s approval as architect of 2011? Someone who’s had a truly splendid year – and it’s not Frank Gehry, though he’s in the running too.
Diner At 30: It’s Aging Well
Barry Levinson’s first film as a writer-director, the one that put him, and modern Baltimore, on the movie map, turns 30 this year. How’s it holding up? “Viewers still respond to all the people in it, not as old friends but as fresh discoveries.”
Oh, That Pollock For Which You Paid $17 Million? Fake
Nearly two decades of modernist sales from a supposed mystery cache come under fire in a case that includes prominent galleries, collectors — and even the FBI.
Why The Historian Hysteria?
Niall Ferguson could have argued with the pen instead of the lawsuit. Why didn’t he?
Playing Romeo In Canada: A Q&A With Dancer Brendan Saye
National Ballet of Canada dancer Saye: “The most challenging role I’ve received was the ballet man in Twyla Tharp’s In The Upper Room. I’ve never been so exhausted onstage before.”