“Point blank: Brown is the reason why the ‘Project Greenlight’ audience sees a black location manager, assistant director and production designer when it tunes in on Sunday nights. She was in charge of assembling the crew.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Los Angeles Equity Actors File Suit Against The Union Over 99-Seat Theatres
“The plaintiffs announced that they would not serve the Complaint on the Union immediately, in the hope that the Union would respond to their request to meet and confer about a mutually acceptable resolution of the small theater controversy.”
With Our Desire For Happiness, We’re Making Ourselves Miserable
“Instead of trying to be more blissed out, less wrought or angry, they argue, we should assume that we’re going to have negative feelings and develop ways to behave like decent human beings despite them.”
We Are All Paparazzi Now
“Little more than a decade ago, stars like Paris Hilton would ‘inadvertently’ leak their plans to the paparazzi — part of the wink-wink symbiotic relationship that fueled their tabloid fame. But what once took an army of clamoring paparazzi can now be tweeted, Instagrammed, Snapchatted, and Vined.”
British Government Sets A High Bar For Exporting A Rembrandt
“It’s important that paintings, especially one as famous as this, are available for our students to learn from.”
Marilynne Robinson And President Barack Obama, Just Having A (Long, Recorded) Conversation About Everything
Robinson: “I think that we have created this incredibly inappropriate sort of in-group mentality when we really are from every end of the earth, just dealing with each other in good faith. And that’s just a terrible darkening of the national outlook.”
Obama: “We’ve talked about this, though. I’m always trying to push a little more optimism.”
When You’re A Woman, Directing Work Dries Up After One Flop
Mimi Leder: “I excel in television. I’ve directed nine pilots and six of them went to air, so my television career was flourishing, but I couldn’t get arrested in features. Saying this sounds like sour grapes, but it isn’t: It’s very different for women filmmakers than it is for male filmmakers. And the film business itself changed dramatically. They just wanted to make tent poles.”
How To Make Your Life Better: Make Things With Your Hands
“Skill has been regulated to the margins in a culture that puts a higher value on conception – on self-expression, creativity, imagination – than on execution.”
One Way To Get More Diversity On TV Is To Keep On Asking For It
Lucy Liu, Watson on the show ‘Elementary,’ said, “The one thing I’ve learned, and I think everyone can take this away with them, is that a closed mouth doesn’t get fed. … So open your mouth. If somebody says no to you, that’s fine. You’re going to hear no a lot in your life, and that’s just what it is. And somebody’s gonna say yes sometime. So you always have to ask the question.”
Arts Funders Are Doing A Pathetic Job Of Giving Money To Latin@ And African American Arts Groups
“The ‘Diversity in the Arts’ report contains another potentially controversial finding: When large, mainstream arts organizations put on black- or Latino-themed performances or exhibitions, they siphon away artistic talent, donations and attendance from black and Latino companies.”