“The market in architectural futures is one way to make sense of the current hunt for firms to design the new wing of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and, across the bay, a new home for the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. Experience is important but so is cachet. And if your building opens as your architect’s reputation crests – ka-ching!”
Tag: 05.17.10
At Obies, Playwright Annie Baker Is Triumphant
“Baker scored the award for new American play for a pair of works: ‘Circle Mirror Transformation,’ which had a successful run at Playwrights Horizons earlier this season, and ‘The Aliens,’ now running at Rattlestick. Laurel comes with a cash prize of $1,000.”
Tony Awards To Recognize NYPD For Theatre District Work
“On May 1, police dealt with a potential car bomb that had been parked outside the theater where ‘The Lion King’ plays. In December, a plainclothes officer killed a suspected scam artist near a landmark Broadway hotel after a gunfight.”
Stress Of Recession May Send Arts Managers Fleeing
Many say they plan “to leave their jobs with no new position on the horizon. … For the past two years, they have felt pressured by both passionate artists who want to do their work regardless of the economic situation and conservative board members, many of whose own companies are in trouble. The challenge of appeasing both at the same time has been overwhelming.”
Why Is There No Great Mormon Novel?
“Wallace Stegner thought the ‘Great Mormon Novel’ would be written by someone who grew up in the church, left, then made it ‘part way’ back to the fold. What’s more, the very fact of a great Mormon writer might make plain to those who doubt it that one can be intellectually serious and Mormon at the same time.”
CBGB’s Bathroom To Be Reborn In Connecticut
At Hartford’s venerable Wadsworth Atheneum museum, artist Justin Lowe “plans to recreate the graffiti-covered restroom of the defunct CBGB punk rock club,” the Manhattan mainstay that closed in 2006.
Outer Critics Circle Lauds Memphis, La Cage
Each musical won “four kudos apiece including top new musical (for ‘Memphis’) and top revival (for ‘La Cage’). ‘Fences’ nabbed three trophies: one for play revival and acting awards for topliners Denzel Washington and Viola Davis.” Meanwhile, “Red” won outstanding Broadway play.
Movie Studios Take A New Approach To Hooking You
“As studio marketers try harder to use technology to advertise movies, ambitious Web games that interlock with social networking sites are an increasing focus. The goal is to reverse the consumer-advertiser relationship. Traditional marketing pushes a message over and over. If people instead pull bits of information into their lives through a game, they are more likely to feel a sense of ownership.”
Is The Canadian Government Out To Destroy The CBC?
“Such is the ferocity and frequency of the attacks on the CBC that one might wonder if, along with diminishing the CBC’s status, the side-effect here is to elevate the role of private broadcasters. These are strange times in Canadian broadcasting. Local television has been eviscerated as private broadcasters point to shrinking revenues.”
YouTube Next – The Way You Watch TV?
“Five years after Karim’s 19 seconds of digital immortality hit the Web and rocked the world of television, YouTube is coming full circle. The king of Internet video is embarking on a mission to become nothing less than the world’s TV.”