05.13.14 – Page 2 – ArtsJournal Wayback

How China’s Art World Is Changing (Quickly)

Artists becoming more faithful to their galleries, dealers more committed to nurturing and developing artists’ careers, collectors better at respecting the rules, and China’s museum boom have combined to dramatically change the art landscape in the past few years.

What Live Theatre Can Learn From The Movies

“Cinema has no trouble evoking a world that exists beyond the borders of the film frame. Tom Sutcliffe, in his book Watching, describes the moment when the vast spacecraft whooshes into view during the opening shot of Star Wars as the revelation of the “unseen off-screen”. Most theatre struggles in my experience to conjure an equivalent sense of expanse.”

The Perennial Cannes Backlash Is Only Getting Worse

“The artistic director of the prestigious film festival responds to accusations that the event is insular, sexist, and stodgy.”

The Reason Why Hollywood Churns Out So Many Boring Superhero Movies

Derek Thompson: “Hollywood has become sensational at predicting what its audiences want to see. And, ironically, for that very reason, it’s become better at making relentlessly average movies.”

Colorado Symphony Makes Marijuana Concerts Invitation-Only

“The CSO on Monday stopped selling tickets to the high-profile series in response to a letter from the city of Denver warning that the events could run afoul of regulations forbidding marijuana consumption ‘openly and publicly in a manner that endangers others.’

Oscar-Winning Director Of ‘Searching For Sugar Man’ Found Dead At 36

Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul won multiple awards in 2013 for his documentary about a Mexican-American folk-rocker who unknowingly became a star in South Africa. Stockholm police say no foul play is suspected in Bendjelloul’s death.

H.R. Giger, 74, Surrealist Designer Made Famous Via Hollywood

Known for creating images melding humans and machines in a style he called “biomechanical”, Giger was primarily a painter and sculptor. Yet he reached millions of people worldwide through his designs for the films Dune, Prometheus, and Alien, for which he won an Oscar.

Vandalized Rothko Back On View At Tate Modern

“It has been a deliberately slow, painstaking process, but 18 months after Mark Rothko’s Black on Maroon was vandalised with quick drying and theoretically indelible graffiti ink, Tate Modern has revealed the successful results of one of its most difficult restoration projects.”

Why Can’t Lit In French Span The Globe as English- And Spanish-Language Books Do?

“French publishers seem to have assumed that the market in the French-speaking world [beyond the hexagon] would never develop, so they’ve done little to explore its potential. … Paris imports talent and exports books, but neither trade names nor rights.”

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