“If someone wants to applaud somebody, let them. I get why [people who hate entrance applause] get their panties in a bunch but I just want people to go and experience the show. A good actor is a good actor, and if people want to reward him or her they should.”
Tag: 07.09.14
Britain’s Museum Of The Year Is A Park In Yorkshire
The Art Fund’s £100,000 prize went to the 500-acre Yorkshire Sculpture Park, which the judges cited as “a truly outstanding museum with a bold artistic vision.”
Conductor May Have To Pay Orchestra For Welsh Proms (Blame The Funding Cuts)
“The conductor of the annual Welsh Proms will have to pay the orchestra fees for this year’s event in Cardiff himself unless most of the tickets are sold. Owain Arwel Hughes is having to act as guarantor for three of the festival’s four orchestral concerts after Cardiff council cut its funding.” (includes video)
The Rom-Com Isn’t Dead, Exactly – It’s A Zombie
“The romantic comedy has created, on top of everything else, a new genre: the obituary for the romantic comedy. … Because the truth is that [today’s] romantic comedies are, as works of art and pieces of culture, terrible. They are usually some ungodly, unseemly, unsexy combination of: stale, trite, silly, and formulaic.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.09.14
Money For Contemporary Art, Boston: Not So Scarce?
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-07-10
Creative Placemaking & Cultural Entrepreneurship
AJBlog: Field Notes | Published 2014-07-10
Jeff Koons Closes the Whitney
AJBlog: Artopia | Published 2014-07-09
AftA Thoughts (2014)
AJBlog: Engaging Matters | Published 2014-07-09
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Got Writer’s Block? Here’s What The Experts Say
“Not all typing is writing, and not all writing is typing; writer’s block subverts far more than the first sentence. Straightforward creative paralysis, or the inability to start typing, is merely the most literal-minded definition.”
How The Music Business Has Changed: So far Only One Album Has Sold More Than One Million Copies In 2014
And, as Billboard and other observers have noted, only three other albums have notched more than 500,000 in sales in 2014.
“A year ago at this point,” notes Billboard, “there were 11.”
Clark Art Institute In Mass. Reopens After Four-Month Closure And 15-Year Expansion Program
The Williamstown museum now has big new exhibition space (much of it underground) that finally enable it to show large-scale 20th-century art and to collaborate with major venues on touring exhibitions. That’s not to mention the one-acre, three-tiered reflecting pool designed by Tadao Ando and Gary Hilderbrand.