“The average young American now spends practically every waking minute — except for the time in school — using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device, according to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation.”
Tag: 01.20.10
What Haiti Meant To Katherine Dunham
“It was the place and culture Katherine Dunham fell in love with, the place that helped her build her dance vocabulary and her spiritual, artistic self. If it weren’t for her research in Haiti, she wouldn’t have become the major American dance artist that she was.”
Anthony Hopkins Has Another Career: Painter
“In recent years, the 72-year-old actor has become something of a renaissance man: in 2007 he wrote, directed and scripted a film called Slipstream. Last year, his composition The Masque of Time was given its world premiere by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Now there’s the painting … ranging from traditional landscapes to much darker and more garish images.”
Broads Give Another $2M For New MSU Museum
“The Broads’ latest contribution brings their total gift to the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum [at Michigan State University] to $28 million, according to a press release. Of their contribution, $21 million is earmarked for construction and $7 million for art acquisition, exhibits and operations.”
Justice At Last: Building Britons Hate Will Be Razed
“In 2005 the Channel 4 programme Demolition asked people which building they would like knocked down and the Imax,” a hulking leisure complex in Dorset, “was judged first in line in England.” Now that dream will come true.
How Tyler Perry Keeps Theatregoers In Line
Anyone who arrives late at the play “Madea’s Big Happy Family” should “be prepared for a scolding from Madea herself. During a recent performance at the Kodak, she singled out latecomers as they scurried to their seats. ‘Sit the hell down!’ she said. ‘People pay good money not to have you crawling all over them in the dark.'”
Try As They Might, Critics Don’t Review In A Vacuum
“As soon as you open the press release, you’re forming a view; open the programme and you’ll find a piece by the director. Resistance can start to feel futile. Then there’s the audience: sometimes, particularly on a West End first night, those in the auditorium seem to have been paid to persuade everyone present what a great night we’re all having.”
Canada’s Arts Publications Imperiled By New Funding Rules
Almost all “small publications with a total annual paid circulation of 5,000 copies or less are ineligible” for assistance from the new Canada Periodical Fund, which replaces two longtime funding streams. “Most of the country’s literary, arts and scholarly periodicals … fall into the ‘small publications’ category,” and they will likely die.
The Mystery Of The Jane Austen Phenomenon
“While she didn’t quite invent the romantic comedy (Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing,’ a clear inspiration for ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ can probably claim that honor), Austen surely conceived and perfected it in its modern form; no one has ever surpassed ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ and not due to any lack of trying. Still, literary achievement can hardly explain the Austen craze.”
Canadian Opera Co. To Offer $12 Standing-Room Tickets
“As of October, there will be 50 standing-room-only spaces available in the theatre, at the back of rings three and four, for just $12[Cdn] – less than a movie ticket at most cinemas. … Still, with an average of 99% capacity for every performance, the COC doesn’t have too much to worry about.”