At the art-centered 21c, hotel guests (if they want to) can experience “the most immersive cultural experience one can imagine in the roped-off world of high-end painting and sculpture.”
Tag: 01.13.13
Men, With Stories And (Of) Dance
“The newspaper photograph, he said, was of ‘Martha Graham, a shovel on the ground and me crying.'”
When A Director Casts An Actor Known To Be A Train Wreck
Self-delusion abounds on the set of The Canyons, a low-budget film that director Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver), writer Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho), and actor Lindsay Lohan (um, Parent Trap & a whole lot more) hope will resuscitate their Hollywood careers.
Artists Facing Financial Facts In The Twin Cities
The Twin Cities are great for artists in many ways. Except for the money thing. “You have little chance of making the orchestras; acting jobs rarely last for an entire year; the average dancer earns about $7,000 annually; visual artists live by what they can sell; full-time choral work is extremely rare.”
Bringing Passion To Dance In Los Angeles
Philanthropist Gloria Kaufman: “I could’ve given money to a lot of different things, which I do, but I thought, this is something that brings joy, and I don’t think we have enough of it. I wanted to make a change. I wanted to make kids and people happy, because I was happy.”
Cleveland Museum Goes 21st Century With A Vengeance
“The techniques developed in Cleveland — if successful — might be adopted later by bigger museums on the coasts, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, they said.”
Can Dead Authors Survive The Age Of Twitter And E-Books?
“Facebook fan pages and Twitter accounts for dead authors may become our virtual altars. In the small act of pushing a button to ‘like’ or to ‘follow,’ we are saying these are voices we still need. We are saying ‘keep.'”
Kenojuak Ashevak, Who Brought Inuit Art To World Renown, 85
“Her renown grew after the release in the 1960s of ‘Kenojuak,’ a film produced by the National Film Board of Canada and nominated for an Academy Award for best short documentary. Commissions followed, and Kenojuak, who spoke only Inuktitut, was invited to travel widely for exhibitions of Inuit art in Germany, the Netherlands, South Korea, Seattle and Ottawa.”
John Lithgow’s New Favorite Theatre Tradition
In an essay for the Sunday Arts & Leisure section, the American actor – one of the few to perform at England’s National Theatre – recounts his joyful discovery of one of the actors’ traditions there.