07.08.15 – Page 2 – ArtsJournal Wayback

Hothouse Architecture – A Group Of Canada’s Top Architects Got Together In A Room And…

“Take a crowd of Canada’s top architects, put them in a room and ask them to design a dense city neighbourhood – working with a 1,000-page book of rules and requirements. This was how the Canary District in Toronto, which will be the athletes’ village for the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games this summer, was created.”

Want Better Doctors? Cultivate Their Artistic Side

“The literary and visual arts,” they write, “have long-standing and venerable roles in fortifying the lessons of clinical empathy, communication skills, critical thinking, and attention”—crucial qualities that can easily get overlooked in an era of assembly line office visits, where a doctor’s attention is often more focused on lab-test data than actual communion with the patient.

Here’s What Happened When We Asked Audiences To Set Their Own Ticket Prices

“Customers were asked to book tickets in advance – so we still captured their data – but they did not pay until after the show. There was no obligation to pay anything, entirely removing their financial risk. … Six months on, I’m pleased to say it has been a huge success, with some startling results.”

Nostalgic For The Age Of Movies Like ‘The Graduate’? Don’t Be

Sorry, Dustin Hoffman. “The glossy hermeticism and theatrical realism of many older, ostensibly classic movies have dated terribly and reflect the very exclusions and compromises of the system that produced them.”

Young American Actors Are ‘Relatively Asexual’ And ‘Social Media Image Conscious’, Says Michael Douglas

Another aging American movie star disses his younger compatriots: “In Britain they take their training seriously while in the States we’re going through a sort of social media image conscious thing rather than formal training. … With the Aussies, particularly with the males it’s the masculinity. In the US we have this relatively asexual or unisex area with sensitive young men.”

Louisiana Retreats On Film Tax Credits And Studios Weigh Shooting Elsewhere

“Proponents said the cuts were necessary to help Louisiana balance its budget and avert steep cuts to education and other needed services. The state faces a projected budget shortfall of at least $1 billion in the current fiscal year. Many fear the new law, however, will encourage major studios to take big budget movies to Georgia and other states competing for Hollywood’s business.”

This Year’s ARTnews Top 200 Art Collectors

“A surge in demand has pushed the art market into uncharted territory. Chinese collectors are increasingly formidable, with Wang Zhongjun (a new addition to the Top 200) picking up a Picasso for $30 million and Wang Jianlin (also on the list) buying a Monet for $20.4 million. But there are also plenty of new players coming in from all over the world, many of whom prefer to remain anonymous.”

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