“If a serious photographer shoots to fix and crop, will a sharp mind and specific artistic style that great photography requires fully develop? Post photographer Bill O’Leary argues that refocusing could become just another instrument in a photographer’s toolkit.”
Tag: 03.27.12
How Technology Is Changing Live Theatre
“In a movement that some critics are calling ‘technodrama’ and ‘mixed reality’, shows across the globe have been embracing the latest digital technology. 3D projections, virtual-reality masks for actors, stop-motion camerawork and computer animation have all been put to use. And as the hardware and software become ever cheaper, the methods are trickling down to fringe theatre too.”
British Government Study: Copyright Licensing Is Archaic
“Licences are complex and confusing and difficult to understand by the majority of those working in further education.”
Lost Cézanne Card Player Study Rediscovered
“For nearly six decades a Cézanne watercolor depicting Paulin Paulet, a gardener on the artist’s family estate near Aix-en-Provence, was familiar to scholars only as a black-and-white photograph. No one knew if the actual work, a study for Cézanne’s celebrated Card Players paintings, still existed and, if it did, who owned it.”
Alastair Macaulay Is High On Indian Dance – And Angry About The Way It’s Presented In India
“Music and dance operate in thrilling proximity; the visual sensuousness is in many ways exceptional; the levels of technical achievement and stylistic polish are high. … Though I saw much beautiful work in rehearsal, much of it is vitiated by the practices that surround live performance, especially at the festivals.”
Can This Russian Oligarch Restore Her Reputation With Her Own Art Show?
“What to do when you’ve been accused, by various publications and Web sites, of all manner of misbehavior: money laundering, blowing $5 million on your daughter’s wedding and massacring mustangs to use their skins for upholstery?” Janna Bullock, “the glamorous Russian-born real estate developer and art scene fixture,” is trying to reclaim some respect with an exhibition that take[s] on nothing less than the Russian power elite, from Vladimir V. Putin to Mikhail S. Gorbachev.”