What is it that makes site-specific theatre specific to its site? And what’s the point of performing in bad spaces when they’re not relevant?
Tag: 05.19.08
Bollywood Takes A Major Stake In Hollywood
“India produces more films than any other country, and sells more than four billion cinema tickets a year, far more than in America. Now one of its biggest companies is to become a significant Hollywood player, it was announced yesterday in Cannes.”
Van Gogh’s Last Painting?
“A portrait stashed in a bank vault in Athens could be the last painting Vincent van Gogh produced, according to some art experts and collectors who are attempting to determine the authenticity of the picture found among the possessions of a Greek world war two resistance fighter.”
A Book By Any Other Name
“There used to be the option for people unsure of their titles to offer an either-or: Twelfth Night, or What You Will (Shakespeare); She Stoops to Conquer, or The Mistakes of a Night (Goldsmith); St Patrick’s Day, or The Scheming Lieutenant (Sheridan: the second title superseded the first). That practice is rarer now, as is the one that even earlier writers used to enjoy of providing titles that threatened at times to become almost as long as the book itself.”
Bad Reviews As Blood Sport
“Literary criticism is famously red in tooth and claw. With the book market more crowded than ever before, a bracing and briny critique can be just the thing to cut through the prettily packaged chaff.”
Big Spenders: $1.5 Billion In Art Auction Sales This Month
“The two-week New York art auctions were a raucous party for some of the world’s richest spenders, who parted with $1.56 billion, confirming that contemporary art has become their sport of choice.”