Rebecca Allen: “If you’re an animator, it’s already clear that you’re a fanatic — an obsessive. Anybody who wants to make frames for every second of movement is obviously pretty obsessive about things.”
Tag: 04.20.12
Jonathan Frid, 87, Sympathetic Vampire In TV’s Dark Shadows
“Frid starred in the 1960s gothic-flavored soap opera about odd, supernatural goings-on at a family estate in Maine. His death comes just weeks before a Tim Burton-directed version of Dark Shadows is due out next month starring Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins. Frid has a cameo role in the new movie in which he meets Depp’s character in a party scene with two other original actors from the show.”
New Orleans Art Comes Roaring Back Since Katrina
“What’s happened is an astonishing burgeoning of galleries every place on St. Claude Avenue. The movement started with a handful in 2008, and now there are arguably more galleries run by broke artists on this one-mile strip, per capita, than in any city of comparable size in the United States.
Thieves Steal Chinese Art From Cambridge Museum
“The 18 items, mostly jade and from the Fitzwilliam Museum’s permanent collection, are believed to be worth millions of pounds. Cambridgeshire Police said a group of people were involved in the break-in at about 19:30 BST on Friday.”
London’s West End To Get Its First New Theatre In 30 Years
“The site was formerly used by Crosse & Blackwell to make Branston pickle until they moved out in 1927. The theatre will be operated by Nimax which already runs five others in London, including the Apollo and Lyric.”
The Getty Trust Hires A Fundraiser (Wait, The Getty Trust??)
“The J. Paul Getty Trust, the visual art world’s ultimate one-percenter with about $8 billion in net assets, has decided that it can’t get by on investment income alone and will begin raising money in earnest to pay for special projects.” The Trust’s president assures us (of course) that its fundraising won’t poach support from other cultural institutions.
‘The Man Who Made Rock ‘n’ Roll Safe For America’ – Dick Clark, ‘America’s Oldest Teenager’
“Before the invention of teenagers [in the 1960s] there had been bobbysoxers in the 1940s but no generational tag for adolescence. … He instinctively understood that the best way to capitalize on the emerging market was to pose as a kind of older brother, a safe-as-milk intermediary who kept the peace between worried parents and their restless children.”
Hollywood Epics Muscle Nature And Space Films Off IMAX Screens
“After decades of functioning as something like a planetarium – an attraction designed to spice up museums by showing documentaries aimed at families and nature enthusiasts – IMAX is suddenly in the spotlight,” with movies like The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, Men in Black 3 and The Hunger Games being shown on the supersize screens.