“More than three years of dedicated devotion to The Angry Birds Movie is finally reaping rewards.” Thanks, Canada?
Author: ArtsJournal2
Virginia Arts Commission Members Threaten To Defund Museum Over ‘Anti-Christian’ Works
“The offending works are the pop-surrealist artist [Mark Rylan]’s ‘Fountain’ (2003) and ‘Rosie’s Tea Party’ (2005), which both show young, doll-like girls in unsettling scenes: In the former, a figure cradles her own head as blood springs from her neck; in the latter, a girl is surrounded by an assortment of meats and slicing a hunk of ham inscribed with the papal encyclical ‘Mystici corporis Christi.'”
What’s It Like To Be An Editor, Really?
“The industry in general is waking up belatedly and slowly to the real benefits of having diversity in staffing. … I mean, it’s a plus to have a Spanish speaker and reader on your staff. Not to have one but to have multiple. It’s a plus to have people reading more diversely and understanding different cultural experiences.
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Not Fade Away: Remembering, And Celebrating, Yehudi Menuhin
“With disconcertingly few exceptions, time erodes the reputations of the famous. Names that were once metaphors for extraordinary skill, physical prowess or moral courage become, at best, only vaguely recalled. That decay, though, is uneven.”
National Theatre Sneakily Does Away With Plus Ones For Reviewers
“On a press relations level, the move smacked of sour grapes – a retaliatory swipe at Fleet Street for not cooing over every offering in Rufus Norris’s strong but hardly faultless first year. On a pecuniary level, it’s hard to see how redistributing that modest allocation to other (presumably online) outlets in the name of broadening critical diversity and bringing in new audiences stacks up.”
The Most Exciting New Music In East Asia Is Written For Chinese Instruments
“In most cases, these instruments’ histories are even older than most contemporary Western instruments. For example, the ‘xiao’ (a vertical end-blown flute) and ‘dizi’ (a traverse—e.g. horizontal—side-blown flute) both have histories and performance practices that date back thousands of years.”
What Separates Film From TV, Really?
“The nature of visual storytelling has changed and the lines that once clearly divided film from television or, for that matter, broadcast television from cable, cable from streaming, streaming from Internet, are fading, often to nonexistence.”
Is Translation, As It Wins Literary Prize Money, Finally Being Recognized As An Art?
“Something skewed does occur during the translation process, at least when you are translating a good book: as a translator, while you pick away at the prose and twist the kaleidoscope of possible meanings to create the most subjective and vital translation you can, you become closer to the book than the author, who is often usually already onto the next project. You become the book’s guardian.”
What This Founder Of The Tribeca Film Festival Wants
“You have to create a safe environment for everybody — both on the set and in the office — to come together and do their best work. You want them to emit that spark of light, like a firefly, but they may have to go back and forth and back and forth, changing their mind before they do.”
The Art World Is Still Sorting Out WWII As Looted Antiquities Are Found In Moscow
“They were among some 2 million works that Russian soldiers took as ‘reparations,’ from Germany near the end of the war. Following two fires at the Bode, where the works were ironically stowed for their own protection, Germany presumed many of the works were destroyed.”