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Tag: 02.11.12
With Budgets Hurting, How Do Arts Organizations Reach New Audiences?
“Some organizations have invited audience members into the creative process. Others have altered their ticket policies, offering more liberal exchanges or hooking up with Groupon. Whatever the case, business as usual has lost its sense of usual.”
Protesting Students Halt Filming Of Egyptian TV Show
“The students had objected to the ‘indecent’ clothing … and ‘categorically refused’ to let the filming continue unless the wardrobe was changed.”
Booker Prize-winning Author Strikes Back At Editor Who Claimed To Rewrite His Work
Novelist and short story writer Ben Okri says an editor who claimed to have rewritten dialogue in one Okri book “has a tendency to exaggerate his own importance.”
To Write A Convincing Setting, Don’t Think ‘Landscape’
The author of The Descendants: “Setting shouldn’t just consist of describing nature or a landscape, or of saying where something takes place. It is the world of specific people. It’s not enough for it to feel vivid or credible; it should feel necessary.”
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra President Steps Down
“Sarah Lutman, president and managing director of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, will leave the orchestra to start an independent consulting practice, the SPCO announced Friday.”
For African American Actors, Little Change On Stage Or Screen
“The black middle and upper classes have long fumed that stage and film have rendered them largely invisible — and are hungry for serious works with rounded characterizations of themselves. This hunger was not satisfied by The Help.“
With New Museum, Jean Cocteau Gets His Due As An Artist
“The trouble with Jean Cocteau was the breadth of his talents: poet, playwright, performer, filmmaker, sculptor, painter and musician. Celia Bernasconi, the director of the new museum, says that that’s exactly what turned the French against him.”
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Finds The Love Online
When 15,000 viewers watched a webcast of the DSO, they set a new record – one that the DSO hopes to overturn. “‘Our goal is to be the most accessible orchestra on the planet,’ Scott Harrison, the orchestra’s executive producer of digital media, said in a statement.”
Lucian Freud’s Assistant, Model And Photographer Talks About The Artist
David Dawson: “Even though Lucian said he was not a creature of habit, the one thing he did do every single day of his life was get into the studio every morning. In our 20 or so years he did not miss a day, literally. And I had to be there first thing every morning, seven days a week, to prepare it for him.”