“For 2012, the NEA had a total federal appropriation of $146 million, of which 80 percent went toward grants. Kickstarter funded roughly $323.6 million of art-related projects if you include all design and video-related projects, which make up $200 million of the total. It looks like a shocking disparity between government grants and a technology start up, but here’s why it isn’t surprising.”
Tag: 07.07.13
Wallace Shawn And André Gregory Are Still Having Dinner (Metaphorically)
They like to take their time. “In all these years, [the two men] have collaborated on just five plays, only three of which were ever formally staged. … Such sparseness is very much a result of the way they work. Mr. Gregory, 79, a pioneer of avant-garde theater, often rehearses a play for months, even years.”
Iraqi Moviemakers Go To Hollywood (This Is Not A Metaphor)
“‘They haven’t seen people from different countries, or people dancing on the beach. Or the beach. Or half-naked women.’ … Here in Los Angeles, almost everything was a surprise for [five] aspiring filmmakers from Iraq in town for a week of education and revelations, including the sort available on the Venice Beach boardwalk.”
Misreading Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann In Jerusalem
Over the decades, many observers have excoriated Arendt for, in describing Adolf Eichmann as “terribly and terrifyingly normal”, letting him off the hook for his war crimes. In fact, she never did any such thing. Roger Berkowitz seeks out the origins of the misunderstanding.
Is This The Future Of (Successful) Theatre In Canada?
“Make no mistake: Drayton Entertainment is one of the country’s biggest theatrical successes. Its circuit of not-for-profit theatres in southern Ontario has expanded to seven.”
Anthony Pappano – From Lounge Bar To Conducting Superstar
“An ever-whirring dynamo, Tony Pappano has arguably (by the age of 53) already done more as a populariser of his art than any media maestro since Leonard Bernstein.”
The Bolshoi – One Tough Company
“Russia’s flagship ballet company is as tough as titanium. It outlived both the Tsarist autocracy that founded it and the Soviet junta that adopted it.”
Dancer Accuses Company Of Kicking Him Out After He Acted In Porn
“An aspiring ballet star is accusing the Royal Winnipeg Ballet of unfairly kicking him out of its school after he began acting in pornographic videos.”
How Driverless Cars Could Change Our Cities
While driverless cars might still seem like science fiction outside the Valley, the people working and thinking about these technologies are starting to ask what these autos could mean for the city of the future. The short answer is “a lot.”
Peter Martins Talks City Ballet
“New York City ticket sales are up, he says. And, well, City Ballet is still here: When you’re talking about legacy, that’s not nothing.”