Selling An Online Peek At The Process Of Filmmaking

Producers of a low-budget movie “decided to turn the cameras on themselves, using a live video stream to let viewers watch the production from beginning to end and interact with the film’s cast and crew through a chat room. For a fee of about $10, viewers can log onto the website SulSet.com and ‘see everything that happens behind the scenes on a real Hollywood movie set….'”

Misha Dances Merce, And Points The Way To The Future

“At 62, Baryshnikov is the perfect mature Merce dancer. He draws your gaze to the movement of every part of his body, infusing the waving [of] his arms or lifting [of] a chair with expression. The … combination of Baryshnikov’s personality, experience and technique, placed at the service of Cunningham, best demonstrates how the work may continue.”

Reversal Of Fortune At Aspen Fest: Board Chair Ousted, Embattled CEO Stays On

At a special meeting of the Aspen Music Festival and School’s board of trustees on Monday, chairman Rob “LeBuhn was voted out after a year in office and immediately stepped down.” At the same meeting, the festival’s chief executive, Alan Fletcher, who was fired and rehired last fall, “had his contract extended for two years, through September 2012.”

A Project Runway For Artists

Television critic Ginia Bellafante on Bravo’s new series, Work of Art: The Next Great Artist: “[An] act of restitution for prior misdeeds of reality television. … This is cable television as a National Endowment for the Arts grant. The comparison makes Work of Art sound vaguely tedious, which it is decidedly not.”