Oh, Thierry Frémaux, did you really say this? You did. “Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux remarked at a news conference Thursday morning that the world ‘will never be the same again’ after sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein boosted the #MeToo movement, IndieWire reported. But he added that the industry’s related gender inequality issues and the lack of female filmmakers represented at Cannes had nothing to do with each other.” Sure, buddy. Sure.
Author: ArtsJournal2
Helen Mayer Harrison, Who Was A Leader In The Focus On Eco-Art, Has Died At 90
Harrison, who with her husband Newton formed the art duo The Harrisons, created work that was “unconventional, to say the least, pushing the very boundaries of what constitutes art. They made topsoil and grew crops in it. They consulted on urban planning projects in Baltimore, Europe and elsewhere. Well before global warming was in the public consciousness, they considered its likely effects through maps and other means. And then there was ‘Hog Pasture,’ one of their earliest works. … They made an actual pasture indoors, with hopes of having a real hog root around in it.”
Audiobook Sales Are Up So Much That Some Authors Are Writing Audio-Only Pieces
Authors who are taking part in Audible’s scheme in Britain (it’s already happened in the U.S.) need to think differently. One said, “It was presented to me specifically as an audio project, and I’ve never done anything like that before, so creatively that was really exciting,”
The New ‘Harry Potter’ Play Is The Most Expensive Non-Musical To Hit Broadway
Part of the huge price tag came from gutting and redoing the Lyric, the theatre where it opens (after record-breaking previews) next week. Of course, one imagines it will easily make its money back.”It’s a huge bet in a flop-prone industry, but also a seemingly safe one, predicated on the expectation that Cursed Child will become a big hit on Broadway, a long-running production that can spin off profits for years.”
Should Publishing Move Out Of London? This Group Says That’s Obvious
Why should the huge southern city of London have all of the power? It’s a problem “Power is concentrated in London and the South East, and publishing is dominated by a handful of large corporations, but there is more creativity than they can cope with.”
Milos Forman, Who Won Directing Oscars For ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ And ‘Amadeus,’ Has Died At 86
Forman’s direction of Cuckoo’s Nest put him “in the front rank of those who struggled to make big, commercial films with countercultural sensibilities. His sympathy for the odd man out was always apparent, even as his movies grew in scope.”
British Bookstore Chain Waterstones Is About To Be Sold To A Hedge Fund
Who knows what the hedge fund might do to the chain? (Take a quick look at the stripped and bankrupted Toys R Us, or newspapers like the Denver Post, or … ) Meanwhile: “The proximity of the sale has caused a delay to increasing the pay of senior booksellers at the chain. The situation has led to some disquiet among senior staff, who were not given a pay rise at the same time as their junior colleagues when the National Minimum Wage rose to £7.83 an hour.”
Denver Post Journalists Blast Hedge Fund Owners For Trying To Sell The Paper Off For Parts
Indeed: “The lead editorial pulled no punches, describing executives at Alden Global Capital, the paper’s hedge-fund owner, as ‘vulture capitalists.’ ‘We call for action,’ the editorial continued. It went on to make the case that ‘Denver deserves a newspaper owner who supports its newsroom. If Alden isn’t willing to do good journalism here, it should sell The Post to owners who will.'”
OK, This Is Cool: New York’s 19th Century Theatre Playbills Will Be Available Online
Theatre history nerds, rejoice! “These one-sheet playbills trace the history of theater in New York. They were originally posted around Manhattan to advertise Shakespeare plays, minstrel shows, new American plays and early musicals. One showcases a performance of ‘The Black Crook,’ which opened in 1866 and is often credited as the first musical. The earliest broadside in the collection advertises the Old American Company’s performance of ‘The Merchant of Venice’ in 1785; tickets were four shillings for a gallery seat.”
A New Economic Impact Study Claims The Boston Symphony Is Pumping More Than A Quarter Of A Billion Dollars Into The Local Economy
The Fourth of July Boston Pops concerts are particularly successful, but in total, “adjusted for inflation, that’s up roughly 40 percent from a similar independent study done in 2008. A decade ago, symphony-related economic activity was pegged at $167 million.”