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….'”
Tag: 06.09.10
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.”
Tony, Tony, Tony: Why Do You Shun Off-Broadway?
“There would be no Broadway without the non-profit theaters, and yet this apartheid system survives. London’s top awards, the Oliviers, don’t make that distinction. Other local awards, such as the New York Drama Critics Circle and the Drama Desk, do include off-Broadway, but they lack the brand recognition of the Tonys….”
Report: Arts Giving Fell 2.4 Percent In ’09 To $12.3 Billion
“That decline was less than the 6.4 percent drop to $12.8 billion in 2008,” and also less than the 3.6 percent decline in “giving to all categories of charities and nonprofits” in 2009. “Experts had anticipated a much sharper drop last year amid the worst recession since the Great Depression.”
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.”
Israeli Promoter Decries ‘Cultural Terrorism’ As Performers Cancel Gigs
Shuki Weiss, who is producing a five-day rock festival in Tel Aviv this week, has released a “statement lambasting moves to boycott the Jewish state, which has seen a growing number of international acts pull out of planned appearances in Israel” in the wake of last week’s deadly raid on an aid flotilla headed for Gaza.
Unpublished Manuscripts By Stieg Larsson Found
“Several unpublished manuscripts by Stieg Larsson, the Swedish crime author who died before his Millennium trilogy became a global cult hit, have surfaced in Stockholm, Sweden’s national library said Tuesday.”
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.”