“Organizations that buy art are investing in themselves — and in more than a monetary sense. Art speaks to culture, self-expression and creativity,” says a corporate art advisor. “When organizations buy artwork, they are supporting the arts. That can mean buying from local artists, but it extends beyond that. Art touches lives.”
Tag: 04.01.12
The U.S. Used To Make Great Action Movies. Not Anymore.
“Action films meant something. As surely as the film noir communicated anxiety over postwar urban upheaval or as alien-invasion films helped us work out our cold-war agita, the action films of the golden age were a post-’70s, poststagflation collective national fantasy: one in which America was strong, independent, unstoppable and perpetually kicking much butt.” That’s over.
That Opus You Wrote At Age 13? Now It Would Be (Self-)Published
Parents paying for their children’s self-published books aren’t worried about promising the young writers too much. “They are simply trying to encourage their children, in the same way that other parents buy gear for a promising lacrosse player or ship a Broadway aspirant off to theater camp.”
Marianne Faithfull, Art Curator – And Fabulous Beast
The singer, who will play in Brecht’s The Seven Deadly Sins this autumn and who curated a show that just opened at Tate Liverpool, says she’s trying to find some sort of peace. “What has happened in the past 10 years or so, and what has been my goal for as long as I can remember, is to bring me and Marianne Faithfull into some semblance of harmony. It was her doing drugs and drinking, her inside my head, so it has been tough. The Fabulous Beast, that’s what I call her.”
Game of Thrones: Is Fantasy Truly Ready For The 21st Century?
Both in book and T.V. form, Game of Thrones inherits the conventions of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings – shifty, savage dark people surround the British-like Westeros. But there’s a catch: The white people are at least as savage.
Tim Rice Talks Superstar and Evita – And The Future
With two Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber revivals opening on Broadway this season, the lyricist talks about how he’d like to play Pilate – but how he’s probably a lot more like Judas.
Where’s The Gender Revolution? Not In Literary Fiction
Meg Wolitzer: “I don’t need to remember anything about signifiers to understand that just like the jumbo, block-lettered masculine typeface, feminine cover illustrations are code. Certain images, whether they summon a kind of Walker Evans poverty nostalgia or offer a glimpse into quilted domesticity, are geared toward women as strongly as an ad for ‘calcium plus D.’ These covers might as well have a hex sign slapped on them, along with the words: ‘Stay away, men! Go read Cormac ÂMcCarthy instead!'”