“When someone asked what we should call that IBM-HP-EMC-Dell-Cisco merger, his response was wonderfully descriptive. He suggested calling we call the company Fucked By The Cloud.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Rome Film Festival Is In Trouble. Can A New York Film Professor Save It?
“I am a great tormenter. I break the balls of everybody: “Give me the film; give me the film.” Of course personal relationships have a role. Of course several of these people trust me and trust what I’m doing, yes. But it’s a serious program. They don’t come just to come to Rome — they believe in the festival.”
Going From The Coalfields Of Wales To Music Stardom
John Cale, founder of The Velvet Underground: “When I moved to New York, I was basically penniless. John Cage was kind enough to help me find a job in a bookstore which sustained me while I was experimenting in the New York avant-garde music scene.”
The Academy Rejects China’s Submission For Best Foreign-Language Film For Not Being Chinese Enough
“Officials have replaced the film, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, who is French, with ‘Go Away Mr. Tumor,’ a lighthearted romantic comedy about an optimistic woman coping with cancer.”
We Should Go Back To The Warmth And Immediacy Of Film To Win Back The Movie House
Christopher Nolan: “I have conversations with studio heads and at some point when I’m passionately advocating using film they’ll say ‘at the end of the day doesn’t storytelling trump everything?’ I say ‘no it doesn’t, otherwise we’d be making radio plays, it would be a lot cheaper.'”
The Writer Who Uses ‘Pscyhogeography’ To Root Her Multimedia Narratives
Karrie Higgins: “When I first started writing ‘forensically,’ I thought forensic science was going to be THE way for me to understand the world and convey what was happening inside my head. This constant push-pull and intense desire to expose reasonable doubt—a kind of confidence in doubt as the only viable narrative. When I got to Utah and started embracing the more magical elements of Mormonism, I started to think differently about forensics.”
‘The Whole Art Thing’s Over In Soho’
“Artists need space to make art. But people with money wanted space for consumption, and they got the art. It’s like eating your enemy’s brain. You have everything — art and money.”
Boomers Now Get Their Own Literature (Just Like Young Adults, But Up The Scale A Bit)
“It is time for writers to come up with books that address what matters to them most as they enter into their ‘Second Adulthood’.”
Have We Found Henry V’s Warship ‘Holigost’ In Hampshire, England?
“Most of Henry’s navy comprised hired-in ships or privately owned merchant ships pressed into service, but the Holigost was one of the four ‘great ships’ commissioned by the king.”
When Arts Battles Erupt On Wikipedia, MoMA Is There To Calm (And Correct) The Waters
“The seven-hour event, devoted to updating Wikipedia entries on topics of Latin American art and culture, included lunch and free child care. Attracting contributors ranging from educators and scholars to an engineer, a banker and a marketer, the gathering would have been unthinkable at a gatekeeper of authority, such as MoMA’s library, just a few years ago, several staff members agreed. But this is becoming the new normal at the museum.”