And no auditions in “private residences” either. At least, that’s the SAG-AFTRA goal, part of a #MeToo result: “The hotel audition guidelines build on the union’s Code of Conduct on Sexual Harassment released in February. Hollywood figures, including disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, are accused of making unwanted sexual advances on dozens of women in these private meetings.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Top AJBlogs From The Weekend Of 04.15.18
Filthy Rotten T.S. Eliot
When my staff of thousands sent me this book cover, APRIL IS A MOTHERFUCKER, by none other than T.S. Eliot, it put me in mind of Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917,which includes … read more
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2018-04-15
Martha Graham: Sacred and Profane
The Martha Graham Dance Company at New York City Center, April 11 through 14 Martha Graham’s Embattled Garden.Left: Lorenzo Pagano; right: Anne O’Donnell and Lloyd Knight. Photo: Melissa Sherwood I assume that Isamu Noguchi … read more
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2018-04-13
Replay: the Rolling Stones on The Mike Douglas Show
The Rolling Stones meet three young fans and perform Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away” on The Mike Douglas Showin 1964: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in … read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2018-04-13
Recent Listening In Brief (short…capsulesque…itty-bitty…not long)
Danny GreenTrio Plus Strings, One Day It Will (OA2) Pianist Green’s earlier album Altered Narratives put strings with his trio on three tracks. The melding with a string quartet worked nicely. One Day … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2018-04-12
Fear and loathing in the Renaissance church: Stile Antico sings Victoria’s Holy Week music
Sacred music began tumbling from heaven to earth in the late 16th century, when the words it was sung to became something more than liturgical reference points. It took on more qualities of human speech … read more
AJBlog: Condemned to MusicPublished 2018-04-12
Will Disney’s New Streaming Service Kill Netflix And Movie Theatres Alike?
It’s an ironic question, or rather it could be an ironic result, considering that Disney essentially built the modern cinemagoing experience. “To save the kingdom, however, Disney may have to blow up the castle.”
The Disappearing Aesthetic Of Amazon Warehouses
Let loose a British architecture critic on the complexes maintained by Amazon and other massive delivery services, and you get (rather depressing) poetry: “You couldn’t call it country or town: it is a node, a zone. It approaches a sort of sublime, you could say, in which the vast whiteish rectangles resemble conceptual art and the engineered terrain unwittingly becomes land art. Its scale is that of the national and international networks of which it is part, not the locality.”
Helen Mirren Says Streaming Is Devastating The Movies
She’s definitely not happy with Netflix and Amazon Prime video turning moviegoers into watch-at-home fans. Mirren “said the ‘communal’ experience of cinema is in danger of dying out. ‘An audience, a movie, and you’re all in it together,’ she said. ‘You’re frightened, you laugh, you cry all together. … And that’s beginning to disappear.'”
Should We Speed Up Beethoven’s Ninth By, Oh, 20 Minutes Or So?
That’s what conductor Benjamin Zander, music director of the Boston Phil, thinks. He recorded an 80-minute version with the London Philharmonic Orchestra- and when that version is released, Sanders is adding in a 160-minute explanation disc.
How Did Traditionally B Movies Get Such A-Movie Budgets – And Attitudes?
What even is “elevated horror,” for that matter?
A Half-Century Of Choreography For Lar Lubovitch
He saw a dance performance by chance in his freshman year at the University of Iowa. He “was lucky to discover dance when he did, in the early 1960s — the tail end of the heroic age of American modern dance. The summer after his freshman year (1962), he headed to the American Dance Festival ‘to find out what dance was.’ His first class there was taught by Martha Graham; the second, by Alvin Ailey; and the third by José Limón.”
If We’re Going To Have Truly Intelligent AIs, They’ll Have To Think *And* Feel
Thinking isn’t everything, or rather, it isn’t actually divorced from feeling. “Part of being intelligent is about the ability to function autonomously in various conditions and environments. Emotion is helpful here because it allows an agent to piece together the most significant kinds of information. For example, emotion can instil a sense of urgency in actions and decisions.”
Rex Harrison Was Terrified Of Failing, And Almost Didn’t Open ‘My Fair Lady’
This isn’t a new story, but it’s a darn good one. “Word of the performance’s cancellation, which had been broadcast on the radio, was rescinded, and crowds started forming at the theater: Yale students, local fans and trainloads of theater folk from Manhattan. Meanwhile, Mr. Adler and another assistant stage manager crisscrossed New Haven, rounding up the actors from Kaysey’s (a theater hangout) and the nearby Taft Hotel, where most of the cast was housed.”