“Audiences really do like to be told a definite story in a compelling way. It has to have captivating characters, an exciting challenge for them to solve, and a solution that’s worthy of the time we’ve taken to watch it.”
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The 11 Most Shocking Things About New York, According To Robert Caro
“I started to realize, I was doing political reporting, and I came to realize almost by accident that this guy Robert Moses had so much power. He wanted to build this bridge across Long Island Sound, and Newsday had me look into it.”
A Tactile Tour Of Noguchi’s Sets For Martha Graham
“From a distance, the glyph-like pedestals of Night Journey appear like granite, but up close you can feel their hollow wooden bodies. The bony edges of the bed are sinewy and rugged.”
Academy Sues Company Dishing Out Oscars Gift Bags (You Should See What’s In Them)
“See any stories of late about expensive swag that attendees to the upcoming Academy Awards are getting? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences certainly has – and it’s not pleased. The social media hashtag that has prompted a lawsuit this award season is not #OscarsSoWhite. Rather, it’s #OscarGiftBag.”
Putin Listens To Activists, Chews Out His Culture Ministry For The State Of Russia’s Monuments
“At a meeting of his presidential council for culture and art in December, the Russian president … chastised officials about the state of the country’s rich architectural heritage and listened to the impassioned activists who have been fighting to save Russia’s monuments,” some of which have been vandalized or demolished illegally.
Antonin Scalia, Defender Of The Arts
As he wrote in one famous opinion, “Reading Dante is unquestionably more cultured and intellectually edifying than playing Mortal Kombat. But these cultural and intellectual differences are not constitutional ones.”
London Arts Unions Alarm: Crisis Talks Over English National Opera
Trade bodies BECTU, Equity and the Musicians’ Union are planning a joint crisis meeting to save English National Opera from becoming a “part-time company”.
LACMA Just Acquired An Important Piece Of Los Angeles Architecture
“For the most part, the important local examples of modern residential architecture that have been preserved as house museums, such as the Eames House in the Pacific Palisades or the Schindler House on Kings Road in West Hollywood, are fixed and unchanging examples of a particular design era. Goldstein’s house is something different, an example of the modern residence in flux.”
Kenneth Turan: Inside The Roiling Firestorm Around Hollywood Diversity
Stirred into almost immediate action by all the hullabaloo, the Oscar folks upended their old established order. “The academy is going to lead and not wait for the industry to catch up,” Boone Isaacs memorably said. But once the academy revealed its strong new rules, it both quieted the uproar and created a backlash of its own.
All The Things It Takes To Get A Broadway Show To Opening Night
“On one recent Tuesday, we spent an hour each with a dozen upcoming Broadway shows as they worked under looming deadlines.” From finding an actor who can embody Steve Jobs to singing and dancing American Psycho, “here’s how the steps and stories, the stitches and salesmanship come together.”