“I’ll use things like Old Bailey records to see what words should be said in a courtroom. I have advised on the content of letters, adverts on a wall and what a children’s book might look like.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
An Australian Premiere, And Arts Minister (!), Forgets Her City’s Most Famous Dance Troupe
“It’s difficult to see how anyone can have confidence in an arts minister who can’t even remember our own Queensland-based contemporary arts companies.”
Los Angeles Needs A Summer Music Festival Of Its Own (Just Ask Salzburg)
“As the city weighs the feasibility of its bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, let us remember what it meant in 1984 when L.A. mounted an Olympic Arts Festival that changed the complexion of performance arts in Los Angeles. Do we have it in us to do it again?”
The 100 Jokes That Shaped Modern Comedy
“With apologies to Monty Python, whose influence on contemporary comedy is tremendous and undeniable, we focused only on American humor.”
Scotland Must Stem The Tide Of Barbarians At Its (Beautifully Built) Gates
“It would take a few volumes to explain the chicanery and sheer, unadulterated vandalism.”
Despite The Passage Of Brexit, London Is Still The Place For Art Dealers
“It will be expensive and complicated … But London is London. The museums are here. The auction houses are here. The best galleries in the world are here. I do not see another city taking London’s place. Madrid? Los Angeles? I just don’t see it.”
How Is The Toronto International Film Festival Doing With Women?
“For all the supposed liberalism of the cultural community, it would be hard to find a more gendered workplace than a film set, unless you went climbing up oil rigs or down coal mines.”
Writer Ann Patchett Says Authors Need To Buckle Down And Save Their Industry
“When customers visit the bookstore and tell her Amazon is cheaper: ‘I’m like, ‘You cannot come in, soak up what we have, talk to the staff, get recommendations, then go home and buy the book on Amazon. If you do, I will hunt you down and smack you around.'”
A Video Game Artist Finds Inspiration In External Limitations
Janice Chu, who’s working on the sequel to The Lego Movie and a lot more: “It’s a fun challenge thinking with constrained rules. … It’s definitely a different way of thinking which is awesome.”
What One Pianist Would Do If He Were A Prommer, Not A Performer
“It’s great to be on stage facing such an overwhelming – in a good way! – crowd. And it’s a unique audience because those at the front in the arena are standing. It’s a very interesting atmosphere for an artist to experience.”