“Basically, I wanted to do a rural Ireland that looked like somebody had taken a hammer to it.”
Tag: 03.31.12
CBC’s Golden Era (And The Threats To Its Future)
“If there ever was a Golden Age for the CBC, it is now. And yet, in the full sunshine of its success, shadows are appearing everywhere. The federal budget cut the CBC by $115-million. This is roughly 12 per cent of the approximately $1-billion that it receives annually from the federal government.”
Canada’s Culture Minister – High On The Arts, But…
“He’s respected by the arts community because he’s one of the only voices in government at any level that seems to be able to articulate the arts case and the argument for public investment in the arts. But the support from the community is wary because of the company he keeps.”
Artists Withdraw From New Orleans Gallery Over Movie Shoot
At the Contemporary Arts Center, several New Orleans artists withdraw from a group show after the executive director agrees to close the exhibit for a week for a film shoot. It “seems that visual art gets bumped aside really quickly,” one artist said.
Who’s Responsible For The State Of Theatre?
Everyone, of course. But more specifically, playwrights – and male playwrights, at that.
Actually, Scotland’s Not That Interested In Classical Music
Sure, people like to go to the theatre – but the Scots are fleeing the symphony and opera in dire numbers. (Or maybe it’s just that the companies were touring? Sure, that’s it.)
Today’s Fools: Homer Simpson Fits Right Into Shakespeare
“It was never about bright clothes, eccentric hats and slippers with bells on them. Shakespeare’s fools were the stand-ups of their day and liked to expose the vain, mock the pompous and deliver a few home truths – however uncomfortable that might be for those on the receiving end.”
With Two New Movies, Snow White’s Never Been More Popular. Why Now?
“After decades of the cold shoulder, why is Snow White suddenly white hot? Maria Tartar is a Harvard professor with an expertise in fairytales. ‘It may be that there is something about the boomer anxiety about aging that is renewing our interest in Snow White,’ she says. ‘In the Disney film, there’s that terrible moment, that terrifying moment when the Wicked Queen drinks the potion, turns into an old hag, and we see the aging process.'”
Kimmel Center, Philadelphia Orchestra May Have Agreement
Though it’s tentative – and though both sides say it will change during the working out of details – the orchestra association and the performing arts hall basically have a new agreement.
Adrienne Rich Was More Than A Poet Of Rage (But She Was Good At That Too)
“While Adrienne Rich, who died on Tuesday at 82, was indeed an inspiring cultural force, she was at bottom a writer of poems. And the defiant political stands for which she became famous are entirely consistent with that identity and its long American heritage. (John Greenleaf Whittier was inveighing against slavery in his poems at considerable personal risk right before the Civil War.) But for Ms. Rich, as for any real poet, the question is always: How do we read her work not as social history, but as poetry?”