More people went to the movies this year in the US than any year since 1959. “By some estimates, admissions could climb more than 10% over last year’s record levels, with folks flocking to theaters more than 1.5 billion times.” Why? Paricularly with all the competition for the entertainment dollar from DVD’s TV etc….? “The real world is probably more terrifying than Americans have ever known. It’s the same kind of desire for escape we also saw during the Depression in the ’30s.”
Tag: 12.26.02
Why The LA County Museum Put On The Brakes
How did the LA County Museum of Art go from huge enthusiasm for an exciting $200 million project to rebuild proposed by Rem Koolhaas, to shelving the project indefinitely? M-O-N-E-Y.
The Accidents Waiting To Happen
Are we more prone to accidents than in the past? A French philosopher believes so. “Technology and communications have made accidents more global in their impact. In his view, if an accident was long defined as chance, today only its timing and consequences are hard to predict; the accident itself is already bound to occur. To underline the importance of this unwelcome variable to modern society, Paul Virilio is promoting the creation of a Museum of Accidents. ‘The museum’s purpose would not be to ‘spread fear’ but to confront what is no longer a chance event’.”
Take The Arts Quiz
Time for the Guardian’s annual arts quiz. How closely were you paying attention to what was going on in the arts this year? We thought we were pretty on top of things, but ArtsJournal’s editor only scored 18 of 25…