Writer/director Sally Potter: “It’s always a good principle to reinvent and to be prepared to throw away the things that you cling to as being your identity.”
Tag: 04.07.13
How The Hell Does One Catalogue The Spot Paintings Of Damien Hirst?
“The full scope of Mr. Hirst’s fascination with colored dots will become clear this spring, when his publisher, Other Criteria, issues a comprehensive catalog of the paintings: a 1,000-page illustrated book listing every work.”
Take One Part Cat, Add In Some Bacon, Multiply By Investigative Journalism
“You can find news [on BuzzFeed], really serious news by first-rate journalists, about subjects like lobbying scandals and killer drones. You can also find an enormous amount of stuff like ‘The 40 Greatest Dog GIFs of All Time.'”
Les Blank, 77, Documentarian of Ordinary Americans
Blank made “sly, sensuous and lyrical documentaries about regional music and a host of other idiosyncratic subjects, including Mardi Gras, gaptoothed women, garlic and the filmmaker Werner Herzog.”
Huge New Play Award For Piece About An Outsized Personality
Playwright Robert Schenkkan “noted that the impetus to write ‘All the Way’ — which was commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland and premiered in 2012 — came from a long fascination with Lyndon Johnson.”
Our Lady Of The Fragile Humanity: Colm Tóibín On Dramatizing The Virgin Mary
“I realized that I was playing with fire. Some neighbors, and indeed some friends, despite their views on the Catholic church itself, still had a deep devotion to Mary as the grieving mother of God … Even in my pages Mary indeed remained an icon. I wished to give her a voice, let her speak, but I had no interest in reducing her or bringing her down to size.”