There are the cities we have. And then there are the cities we might have had if only they had been been built. It’s probably no surprise that with all the imagination running rampant in Los Angeles, there are many fun proposed projects that never got built. Here are some of them…
Tag: 02.09.17
LA Cracks Down On Pay-To-Play Casting Workshops
“The Los Angeles city attorney cracked down on Hollywood’s pay-to-play casting workshop scene on Thursday, announcing cases against five prominent casting firms and 25 individuals allegedly involved in schemes that violate the Krekorian Talent Scam Prevention Act, a rarely enforced state labor law.”
Is There Any Such Thing As A Good Video-Game Movie?
Hollywood keeps trying to make one, but time after time, it seems, they’re critical disasters and U.S. box-office bombs (though some do wery well overseas). Top directors tend to either avoid the genre or try it once, get burned, and then avoid it. Is a truly good big-screen adaptation of a video game even possible? Yes, argues David Sims, and, arguably, it’s happened already.
Hollywood Women Gather To Say Things Have To Change In The Biz
“Frustration was in the air at the Makers conference, where hundreds of women gathered for three days in Rancho Palos Verdes to network and hear female celebrities and luminaries speak. Just weeks after the Women’s March and the inauguration of a president who has bragged on tape about sexually assaulting women, Hollywood women in particular were openly critical of the way they’d been treated in their professional lives.”
Nicolai Gedda, 91, Revered Tenor Whose Career Spanned Five Decades
A scrupulous musician, Gedda was admired for his fantastic versatility: he was convincing and stylish in Mozart, bel canto, Italian, French, German, and Russian repertoire, capable in opera, art song, and even operetta.
Painting Languishing In A Storeroom Turns Out To Be A Genuine Brueghel
“The unsigned and undated work, Wedding Dance in the Open Air (1607-15), had been in store for several years when the [Holburne Museum in Bath’s] director, Jennifer Scott, decided to pull it out for a closer look.”
Exhibition On Maidan In Kiev Destroyed By Nationalist Gang
Security camera footage shows more than a dozen men in balaclavas bursting into Kiev’s Visual Culture Research Center, beating a guard, and destroying artist Davyd Chychkan’s show Lost Opportunity. They left behind holes in the walls and graffiti reading “Moscow’s mouthpiece,” “Glory to Ukraine,” and the like.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.09.17
On “Artivism” – a conversation with Amy Hunter
I met Amy Hunter in St. Louis in October 2014, less than 3 months after the shooting of Michael Brown in nearby Ferguson. At the time, she served as Director of Racial Justice for the YWCA of Metro St. Louis. … read more
AJBlog: Audience Wanted Published 2017-02-09
ICYMI: Matisse and American Art
No sooner had my review of the exhibition at the Montclair Art Museum titled Matisse and American Art run in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday than I was off, flying to another exhibition … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-02-09
The New Robots That Are Making Vinyl Records
“The first new record-pressing machines built in over 30 years are finally online. The brainchild of some Canadian R&D guys with a background designing fancy MRI machines, the Warm Tone record press is everything that its vintage counterpart is not: safe, fast, fully automated, reliable, run by cloud-based software, and iOS-controlled. These $195,000 whiz-bang machines, the homegrown product of a Toronto company called Viryl Technologies, are the next-gen record presses our 21st century vinyl revolution has been waiting for.”
First: Grammys Consider Streaming-Only Entries For This Year’s Awards
“The music industry’s most prestigious awards, which take place Sunday in a star-studded gala in Los Angeles, this year for the first time considered releases that were only streamed online.”