Lileana Blain-Cruz went to New Orleans before she began directing Marcus Gardley’s “The House That Will Not Stand,” which is set in 1813 in the city. She documented what she discovered, and “even the food, she reported, felt relevant.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Ireland’s Extremely Cool Orchestra Members Play David Bowie In Their Wellies
The Trinity Orchestra plays everywhere, including summer music festivals (which can be rather damp on the Emerald Isle). “‘The priority is not to lose your instrument when you’re camping,’ says Kellie O’Neill, nodding. ‘Yep. That would be pretty bad.'”
The Science Behind How We Feel About Art
About two dozen labs in the U.S. are studying “experimental aesthetics” – why we like what we like, and why we make art at all. “The mysteries of the aesthetic response, and the creative impulse, have become a burgeoning area of inquiry for scientific researchers across many disciplines. They hope quantifiable data and statistical analysis can help explain matters that some consider ineffable — like why we paint or sing, or why we naturally favor Van Gogh’s sunflowers over the landscapes we encounter in budget hotel rooms.”
Meet Marsha Hunt, A 100-Year-Old Hollywood Actress Who Stood Up For Her Peers And Never Lost Her Principles
She lost her Hollywood career (though she found work on stage) thanks to her advocacy for free speech. “Hunt is the last surviving member of what was known as the Committee for the First Amendment. It was a group of a few dozen big Hollywood names, including Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Huston and Judy Garland. They produced a radio show called Hollywood Fights Back, protesting HUAC as itself un-American. And several members, including Hunt, flew to Washington, D.C. to show support for the writers and directors who’d been called to testify before HUAC.”
In Santa Fe, ‘Doctor Atomic’ Is A Very Local Opera
Peter Sellars, who is re-creating the 2005 opera for a run in Santa Fe, says he’s also reconsidering elements of it. “Here the story is, of course, the Los Alamos laboratory, … but also the ‘downwinders,’ the people living with all these cancers from all the test sites — and the pueblos that are 10 minutes away from Los Alamos, where most people and their families were employed.”
Artist Steve Ditko, Co-Creator Of Spider-Man And Doctor Strange, Has Died At Age 90
Though he left Marvel after a serious falling out with Stan Lee, he worked for other comic publishers and returned to Marvel and worked as a freelancer from the 1970s onward. ” Among his last creations was Squirrel Girl in 1992, who has become a cult favorite in recent years.”
Romance Novels Are Trying To Reach A Hot Intersection Of Inclusion And Publishing
Or at least romance writers are. Some of the publishers aren’t there yet. “Even as the genre has evolved to reflect readers’ varied tastes and fetishes — popular subcategories include vampire and werewolf romance, military romance, cowboy romance, time travel romance, pirate and Viking romance — the lead characters are often confined to a fairly narrow set of ethnic, cultural and aesthetic types.”
Frederick Wiseman Describes The Process Of Making His Detailed, Quiet, Thorough Documentaries
At the time of the profile, the 88-year-old documentarian was editing footage from the New York Public Library, and he had more than 150 hours to cut down to two or three. “While the technique is uncompromising, some of the observations are laugh-aloud funny – as when a telephone operator valiantly attempts to explain that unicorns don’t exist, or a picture librarian demonstrates a system of themed archiving with images of ‘dogs in action’. ‘Everything that I find is coincidental, but there’s nothing coincidental about the final film,’ explains Wiseman, who is not only the director and editor, but the sound recordist and producer.”
A Daring Opera Leader Leaves His Mark In Provence
Bernard Foccroulle is getting ready to go. What’s his legacy at the Aix-en-Provence Festival? “During the past 11 years he has made the Aix festival … feel more connected: to young artists, whom it has assiduously fostered; to new work, which it has commissioned in quantity and quality; to the operatic canon, which it has refreshed with provocative stagings and musical visions; to new audiences; and to its Mediterranean region, which it has celebrated with forays into North African and Middle Eastern styles without seeming patronizing.”
Oakland Is Getting Its Hollywood Moment
Or at least its indie moment, after the Oakland scenes of Black Panther fade. “Long in the shadow of the city across the bay and nestled between liberal Berkeley and the exploding tech expanse of Silicon Valley, Oakland (pop. 425,000) is in the midst of a long-awaited movie moment, and [Sorry to Bother You writer/director Boots] Riley is helping put it on the map.”