“Donald L. Bryant Jr. is dismissing recent accusations that he is trying to go back on a pledge he made to the Museum of Modern Art and the artist Jasper Johns that he would donate three important paintings by Mr. Johns to the museum.”
Tag: 02.01.13
Netherlands Decimates Arts Support
“Because of budget cuts and financial reorganization of the country’s cultural sector, about 40 of the 120 cultural arts organizations in the country became ineligible for federal grants this year. Some of them have been able to secure financing from other sources, but at least two dozen had to fold at the beginning of the year.”
The Next Version Of The Web? (There Won’t Be One)
“The space-based web we currently have will gradually be replaced by a time-based worldstream. It’s already happening, and it all began with the lifestream.”
How Video Streaming Is Changing The Way TV Is Being Made
“Binge-viewing, empowered by DVD box sets and Netflix subscriptions, has become such a popular way for Americans to watch TV that it is beginning to influence the ways the stories are told — particularly one-hour dramas — and how they are distributed.”
Why Hollywood Talent Wants To Work With Netflix
“Streaming media companies are positioning themselves as the place where writers, directors and producers can do what they want, without fear of micromanaging.”
Health Troubles Cause Trisha Brown To Leave Her Dance Company
“Ms. Brown, 76, had a series of mini-strokes in the past several years, although she was choreographing as recently as the fall of 2011 and was active at the company until last summer … But she has had increased difficulty communicating recently and is relinquishing the title of artistic director of the company that bears her name.”
Why Isn’t Britten In The Pantheon Of The Greatest Composers?
“His unfailingly accessible, straightforwardly beautiful music, like that of Aaron Copland, his opposite number in America, is widely – if by no means universally – thought [by critics] to be too ‘easy’ to be great. But there’s more to it than that. Throughout his life and to this day, Britten’s reputation has risen and fallen for reasons that have at least as much to do with his complex personality.”
Bernardo Bertolucci Returns To Filmmaking After Becoming Disabled
“There had been rumours he would never direct again, partly on account of back problems stemming from a fall in Rome, followed by failed surgery. Only when he came to terms with his condition” – confinement to a wheelchair – “was he able to consider taking on another project.”
Accessing The Zombie Mind – How Does A Filmmaker Do It?
“Not only do you have to deal with widening perspective and creating a larger world, you also have to deal with the fact that from outward appearances the hero is a mumbling, stumbling, brainless bag of meat that spends every moment dreaming of devouring human flesh. This was the principal issue facing Jonathan Levine when he first came aboard to adapt Isaac Marion’s novel Warm Bodies.”
Cover Bands And Elvis Impersonators Boost Philippine Economy (Seriously)
“The musicians are among the millions of people from the Philippines who work overseas and help power the country’s economy with remittances. … Japan remain[s] the top destination, followed by Malaysia, South Korea and China.”