Yarn-bomber Bryan: “”I see public art as a form of positive vandalism. It’s something that is out there in your everyday life, something that you don’t have to pay money to see and that you can’t avoid seeing.”
Tag: 03.14.12
So Experimental Fiction Usually Makes Your Realist Heart Quail? Here’s Some Advice
“The tenets of modernism dictate that real literature needs to be difficult, otherwise it’s kitsch. I’m no unreconstructed modernist, and I’m not going to tell you that Marcus’s novel is good precisely because the dribbling masses wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole. Rather, I’m telling you to read The Flame Alphabet because it’s unique, continually surprising, and often flat-out disgusting.”
Planned SAG-AFTRA Merger Gets Held Up In Courts
“Attempts to merge the two major US acting unions – the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists – have been referred to the California courts. Ballots have been sent out to members to vote on the proposal. However, in a complaint filed against SAG and several of its officers, more than 60 actors have sought to prevent the ballots being counted.”
Eleven Thousand Movie Posters Seek Good Home
Movie posters: Art, or just a somewhat random obsession for one of their biggest collectors? Dwight Cleveland has every poster of every Academy Award-winner ever, plus quite a few thousand more – and he’d like to get them to an archive. But it’s not going to be cheap.
How Intimate, Personal Stories Can Change The Perception Of India And China
“Since India is not seen as a threat to the United States’ global power, this allows storytelling about Indians’ complex lives to proceed without the obstacles that arise in telling similar Chinese stories. Reportage on China is hampered by access, language barriers, and censorship. Rural communities are often off-limits to outsiders and Chinese people’s opportunities to participate in civil discourse are more limited.”
Shakespeare Didn’t Worry About Copyright, So Why Should Contemporary Playwrights?
“I hope that with the provisional defeat of SOPA and PIPA, we are in a moment where we as an industry can finally question the current copyright and intellectual property regimes under which we labor. We must dream together new systems that encourage creativity and move away from our current privatized, exclusivity-based system.”
Pierre Schoendoerffer, 83, War Filmmaker
The French filmmaker was captured during the 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu and spent most of his life as a war correspondent before making movies like the Oscar award-winning The Anderson Platoon.
Watching A Pilobolus Audition
“The basic math was staggering: About 300 women and 60 men … showed up to try out for one job.” What the process “exposed about audition behavior, and how dancers can sabotage themselves, was painful to witness. … While movement quality and thought process is central, the ability to listen and take notes without attitude is essential. And rare.”
Christopher Plummer’s Stage Portrayal Of John Barrymore To Be Released As Feature Film
“Plummer won a 1997 Tony Award for his turn as John Barrymore in the Broadway play written by William Luce. … [The] high-definition movie capturing Plummer’s performance with multiple cameras was done over seven days on location and on the stage during a limited [2011] run at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto.”
Billy Connolly, Legendary Scottish Comedian And (Now) Visual Artist
“After more than 40 years in stand-up comedy, music and acting, Billy Connolly has turned his hand to contemporary art. The comedian on Wednesday unveiled to the world a series of pen and ink drawings called Born on a Rainy Day, the result of two years of sketching.”