Here’s some of how a $25,000 NEA grant broke down for L.A.’s Craft and Folk Museum to mount Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California: “Security for the show cost $1,200. Postcard printing and mailing cost $150. Three advertising spots on a local NPR station totaled $1,500. Lighting and painting supplies were $1,140. Insurance for the show was $1,200. The most expensive item on the list: $8,000 for labels and wall text fabrication for the exhibition. Artist fees for all commissioned work totaled only $6,000.”
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Gertrude Stein, Famous Teacher Of Freshman Composition
Read Gertrude Stein carefully, and tenaciously, and you’ll see how she teaches writing with every rigorous sentence. (No, she was not a famous teacher of composition, of course.) “To Gertrude Stein, the arrangement and creation of sentences and paragraphs was always paramount, no matter the origin.”
Ballet Idaho’s Artistic Director Is About To Retire
In 2008, the ballet dissolved its artistic partnership with the Eugene Ballet and struck out on its own with Peter Anastos at its head. “Starting a new company from scratch is certainly not for sissies,” he says now, as he prepares to finish up his decade with the reinvented company.
Why Did Australia’s Most Famous Artist Turn His Back On The Couple Who Gave Him Love And Launched Him To Fame?
And what’s the deal with art historians who have failed to use primary sources while talking about them? “A modest exhibition of slate paintings will not be the grandest tribute paid to Sidney Nolan in his centenary year. But it is perhaps the most poignant. Australia’s greatest 20th-century artist painted them in the early 1940s while in the early throes of his decade-long affair with Sunday Reed, and living in a decidedly modern menage with Sunday and her husband John.”
Netflix Is Digging Deeper For More, And Better, Original Films
But films – especially documentaries after the recent rule change at the Academy – on Netflix are shut out of Oscars consideration next year. Still, “for filmmakers like Mr. Leon, the flexibility of the Netflix option is an artistic lifesaver.”
Why Is Bach’s St. John Passion Getting So Much (More) Play This Year?
Seriously, why? “The ‘St. John’ problem has become ever more troubling in the decades since World War II and the Holocaust. With the horrible potential latent in anti-Semitism ever more apparent, any performance or hearing of this work must be cause for sober reflection, not mere mindless pleasure.”
Eurovision Sits At The Intersection Of Pop Culture And Politics – And This Year, It’s A Fiery Combination
Ukraine banned Russia’s entry from competing because the singer had once visited Crimea, the part of Ukraine that Russia “annexed” in 2014. That comes after Ukraine’s singer won the 2016 competition with a song that appeared to explicitly discuss some of Stalin’s misdeeds in Crimea during WWII. That’s a lot of meaning for a pop song contest to carry.
Need A Theatre Program In Your Elementary School? Better Ask Disney For Money
Of course, the program is called “Disney Musicals in the Schools,” and the kids produce and perform a “Disney KIDS” musical during the year they get funding and support, but hey: “Teachers will learn how to create all parts of a show, including building a rehearsal schedule, developing and maintaining a budget, choreographing a number, teaching the music and directing a show.”
What’s It Like To Film In Havana Now?
Shooting car chases, for instance, “is way more dangerous than you’re used to,” says the director of the newest installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise. “There are so many fans of the franchise in Cuba. We had to hire 100 locals to lock down a 20-block straightaway, because there were over 10,000 people watching us shoot. That’s phenomenal energy that you can feed off of to create, but there’s also safety considerations.”
Adding ‘Marijuana Grow House Worker’ To The Traditional Jobs L.A. Actors Do Before They Get Their Breaks
Lakeith Stanfield, who had a very creepy role to play in Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” and is a star on the series “Atlanta,” says it’s time for Black culture to be recognized in Hollywood. “Hollywood’s been racist since its inception. But now it’s opening up. Now it’s becoming much more real, inclusive.”