John Patterson: “3D should be cheap-ass. It should be a gimmick. It needs to be wasted on violent, sleazy and stupid movies like Friday The 13th Part 3 or The Final Destination.“
Tag: 10.01.11
Beijing Has An International Fringe Festival (Who Knew?)
The event “was conceived in 2008 as a small local festival using university performance spaces to give voice to young directors and young talent. Back then it comprised a mere 10 productions. This year there were 54 productions in 11 venues around Beijing.”
With Refurbished Orsay, Paris Makes Impressionists Feel At Home
White walls and sunlight don’t work for Impressionist paintings, and the Musée D’Orsay’s newly refurbished Impressionist wing makes a good case for a deeply different approach.
Fans Still Potterless, At Least In The E-Universe
Despite the site’s 1 million users, the site set up to launch J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series as e-books isn’t quite ready for prime time.
Painting By App, With David Hockney
“Using the iPad in much the same way as he used to employ a pad of paper, Hockney recently exclaimed in an interview, ‘Van Gogh would have loved it!”
Celebration Over The Sale Of Hated Public Artwork
How’d that public sculpture work out in Portland, Maine? Ask Shawn McCarthy. “Oh, God, it was all we could see,” McCarthy said. “In one way it was a conversation piece, but the conversation just was never positive.”
Chick-Lit May Be Dead, But Should We Dance On Its Grave?
“By buying into ‘chick-lit’ we are buying into the notion – perpetuated by publishers – that, as women, we require a different genre of fiction. That is harmful, not just because it’s patronising, but because it undermines the work of the author too.”
Bullets And Marriages: Touring L.A. With A Performance Artist
With Pacific Standard Time bringing more attention to the city, the artist tells KPCC exactly what was important about places like the F Space, where in 1974 Chris Burden took a bullet in the service of art.
School’s In, And So Are The Architectural Prizes For The School
Zaha Hadid wins the UK’s prestigious Stirling Award for the second year running, for an academy that incorporates four different schools. One innovation in the tight space? “A 100-metre running track through the middle of the site, under a bridge between two school blocks.”
Factual Facts, And Answers, Missing About The Colorado Symphony’s Survival
The Colorado Symphony’s on the rocks financially and could collapse soon. But why? “Questions abound, and the symphony has done little to respond to them. Instead, it has issued only puzzling news releases to subscribers and media alike with non sequiturs, such as, ‘the reason that these facts are concurrently factual.'”