The artist’s estate is in what the judge overseeing it calls a state of “personal and corporate mayhem.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Writer Who Can Help Make A Show About Eating Disorders Both Good And Right
Marti Noxon won fame on Buffy the Vampire Slaver and Angel. Now she’s in the middle of promoting a movie for Netflix, filming a series with HBO, finishing a series with Bravo, and starting the first series of a three-year deal with Skydance Media. “I’m somebody’s Joss [Whedon] now!” she says.
New York Says Goodbye To A Lot Of Midsize Galleries
It’s not a pleasant trend, whether it’s in London, New York or Los Angeles. Indeed, as more small and mid-size galleries merge or close, “some see the solidifying of a class society.”
How, In This Time Of Collapsing Theatre Coverage, Is London’s ‘Theatre Record’ Still Alive?
The guy who runs it works for free, and it takes its content from printed reviews. (But are there any printed theatre reviews anymore? Or will there be in the future?)
The Last Moments Of A Prima Ballerina’s Life With The ABT, In Photo Essay Form
It’s a ritual: “A ballerina’s farewell — especially at American Ballet Theater — is a time-honored drama. Rose petals fall like rain from the rafters, fellow dancers parade out to deliver bouquets, and audience members crowd the aisles, roaring as if at a rock concert.”
An Artist’s Design For An LGBT Memorial In New York Reflects Desire To Bond With The City
Artist Anthony Goicolea: “It feels like there are certain shapes and patterns that are encoded in our DNA as humans that transcend any particular culture and speak to how we are unified in the larger scheme,” he said. “I wanted to create a space that feels familiar, even though it is new.”
The Writer Lidia Yuknavitch, Who Reinvented The Memoir, Says She’ll Never Tire Of ‘Swimming Within Language’
Her book The Chronology of Water ends with an interview with her editor Rhonda Hughes, and here’s why: “What you want is an editor who is dying to go with you into your material, to ride the waves, to dive down or kick up, to swim the waters of your imagination. The interview was a chance to show readers that no book happens without collaboration. All books take many mammals and I count my lucky stars I crossed stardust paths with Rhonda.”
The Huge Price Someone – Maybe All Of Us – Pays For Empathy In ‘S-Town’
The podcast, originally a discussion between host Brian Reed and a man in the town he calls “S-Town,” is now a genuine phenomenon. But what are the ethics of so many of knowing so much about the life of someone we’ve never met? “None of this is easy. Or ethically clear. But it is moving in a way that I haven’t felt in a long time. One of the things a large and pluralistic society denies us is proximity. And with that denial, the lives of our fellow citizens are harder to imagine, creating a kind of empathetic poverty that erodes our shared life.”
The Making Of GLOW, Netflix’s New Women Wrestling Comedy
For one thing, all of the actors had to learn how to wrestle. “We knew from the beginning GLOW was a show about bodies and women using their bodies in different ways that they hadn’t used them before, and using bodies in ways that we as an audience haven’t seen before. It felt pretty important that, to honestly tell that story, we should show you the women’s real bodies going through this experience.”
What Do We Know About Shakespeare’s Politics?
Not a lot because, well, he was a playwright. But “some themes recur; and some messages in the action of his plays are too powerful to miss. Such themes are most abundant in the four plays written at the height of Shakespeare’s powers. In Polonius’s classification, they are tragical-comical-historical. They are about the state in moments of stress, and about individual men acting politically. In these four plays, six themes emerge.”