“With its newly insatiable appetite for entertainment, its rapidly expanding movie industry and its insistence on censorship, mainland China has become, for better and worse, the dominant force in Asian films.”
Tag: 04.15.11
Will Anyone Care When “Spider-Man” Returns To Broadway?
“Spider-Man” had going for it was its bad reputation, and like a reformed bad boy in high school, audiences might not find the story of Peter Parker that compelling once it has stopped being so self-destructive.
Pittsburgh Arts Groups Team Up To Survive
“In recent years, the region has seen a number of front-office collaborations among arts organizations, driven mostly by the financial realities of the poor economy.”
The Canadian Prime Minister, The Opera (And The Review)
“I felt a new emotion while watching this: sympathy for Brian Mulroney. I didn’t mind so much that Dan Redican’s script treats our former prime minister as an egotistical clown – editorial cartoonists did as much, or worse – but for Alexina Louie to give so colourful a man nothing memorable or interesting to sing seems too cruel.”
Graffiti Spikes As LA MoCA Opens Street Art Show
“The Los Angeles Police Department reported a spike in graffiti and vandalism in the museum’s Little Toyko neighborhood.”
What’s With England’s Cult Of The Ruins?
“We do not leave disused railway stations or barracks or dockyards to ruination. We do not refuse to repair churches so as to create new ruins. What is so special with castles that we leave Stokesay, Cowdray and Portchester gaunt and empty?”
Sharjah Biennial Controversy Demonstrates Pitfalls For Contemporary Artists
“What happened after the Brooklyn filmmaker Caveh Zahedi submitted his film to the biennial offers an object lesson in the risks built into the event, and more generally into efforts to cultivate a contemporary art scene in places like the United Arab Emirates.”
Did We Evolve From A Common Language?
“A researcher analyzing the sounds in languages spoken around the world has detected an ancient signal that points to southern Africa as the place where modern human language originated.”
$70-Million Spider-Man Closes This Weekend For Retoooling
“Like so much else about Spider-Man, there is no historical precedent for a Broadway show that runs for months without opening and then closes temporarily to excise much of the original director’s concept.”