“Virtually anything you can imagine, you can create – from earrings or shoes to an aeroplane or even a house. And instead of a factory-based production line, it’s all about the one-off, tweaked to exact specifications.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Not Just An Afterthought: Creative Arts Emmys At The Center Of Meaning
“If you strip away the art that the folks in the Creative Arts part of the Emmy world are responsible for, those programs would be pretty naked as an art form.”
Can Classical Music Really Address 9/11? Maybe.
“The question is, how many commemorations do we need before we’re ready to move on, how many performances of Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony, which appears to be the classical answer to ‘God Bless America,’ an unofficial anthem of memorial?”
University Takeover Of Theatre Relieves Strained Missouri Symphony
After an expensive building renovation, the Missouri Symphony Society just about collapsed. Instead, the University of Missouri will lease and manage the Missouri Theatre, solving a host of problems for the school and the symphony.
Twitter Saving Classical Music? Far From It
“A classical concert provides an opportunity to untie the digital umbilical cord and replace it with chords that really do resonate.”
I Hate Novels – Don’t You?
“Every time I finish the Big Important Issue Novel of the Month I lurch to the non-fiction shelves like a lost Bedouin who’s spotted an oasis.”
SPOILER ALERT: Actually, Never Mind. Read The Spoiler. You’ll Be Happier
Stop being so neurotic about avoiding spoilers, professors and film critics say. “What a spoiler does is enable you to get the plot out of the way and you can watch the thing unfold with greater attention to the cleverness, the beauty, the commentary on the human condition, the examination of a life.”
Will Boys Ever Read Again? Um, Probably.
“Boys need to be approached individually with books about their fears, choices, possibilities and relationships — the kind of reading that will prick their dormant empathy, involve them with fictional characters and lead them into deeper engagement with their own lives.”
Not Too Late For Memory: Japanese-American Internment Museum Opens
“For three years during World War II, more than 10,000 Japanese-Americans were interned here at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. Many vowed they’d never return once they were freed in 1945 after the surrender of Japan.” On Saturday, more than 250 came back.
Can A New, Young Director Make Her Mark With “Hedgehog”?
“The Elegance of a Hedgehog” sold like mad in France and the U.S., and experienced producers and directors vied for the movie rights. How did a new, young director end up writing the adaptation and helming the film? Mona Achache just “has something.”