“With the advent of international performing arts product in cinemas around the country and already available online there is a strong need for Australian major performing arts companies to enter the digital market. We do not want to be in a situation in which Australian cinemas and the NBN are replete with overseas performing arts product and little Australian content.”
Tag: 04.14.11
Why Writers Need To Do Social Media
“Writers don’t get to meet readers very often and when they do it’s only for a short time (after a book festival or library event, for example). On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they’d liked what I’d written and by the by, more about them than I’d ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck at a signing desk. It was fascinating.”
Starchitects? All They Design Is Disposable Junk
“The philosopher Roger Scruton launched a rabble-rousing attack on celebrity architects – such as Daniel Libeskind, Frank Gehry, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman and Rem Koolhaas – who build monuments for themselves, and indulge in overblown discourse to justify buildings that will be torn down in 20 years’ time”
Abortion, Gun Rights, The Founding Fathers And Jesus Christ – All In One Play
Theresa Rebeck’s O Beautiful, about to premiere in Delaware, is “a satirical look at the politics of the Tea Party, Glenn Beck and the failed Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell, as dramatized through [an] abortion story.” The plot also deals with “suicide, date rape, gun rights, the founding fathers and … Jesus Christ,” who appears onstage.
Upheaval At Thyssen Museum’s New Branch In Malaga
Just three weeks after the opening, “the museum director, Maria Lopez, and a board member, Tomas Llorens, former chief curator of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, resigned this week in protest over what they consider to be unprofessional meddling by the Malaga mayor and the baroness herself in the museum’s artistic affairs.”
Australian Arts Companies Lag In Exploiting Digital Tech: Report
“However many companies are struggling to keep up with the massive leap in expertise required in the digital arena and also the increasing costs involved,” says the report by the Australian Major Performing Arts Group.