“It’s an unseemly legal dispute pitting one of young Hollywood’s favorite charities against an entertainment industry entrepreneur and reality television figure.”
Tag: 07.15.12
Does The Movies’ Move To Digital Spell The End For Small Movie Theatres?
“The cost of transitioning to digital is just too expensive for some family-run businesses and, with an increasing number of films available only in a digital format, smaller cinemas could soon be shut out from carrying many blockbuster movies.”
Why Edward Villella Was Fired From Miami Ballet
“The break climaxes years of tension between Villella and the board at a time when the company has reached unparalleled success: a critically acclaimed debut in New York in 2009, the Paris performances, a national TV debut on PBS last fall, and premieres of two successful ballets from major international choreographers last season. The conflict has also exposed the often rough-and-tumble world of arts patronage.”
Is A Rediscovered Klimt Really By Gustav’s Brother Ernst?
“An early work by the symbolist artist Gustav Klimt that was thought lost forever has reportedly been found in a garage in northern Austria.The timing of the discovery could not be more appropriate as Austria is currently celebrating its most famous painter’s 150th birthday, which fell on Saturday.” But one expert says that’s not the correct Klimt – it’s actually by Gustav’s less-talented brother Ernst.
Modern Life Is Boring, And Novels? Pretty Much Dead
Novels are over – we can learn everything about other people from magazines and therapy, says novelist Fay Weldon, though she just published the first book (complete with “If you liked Downton Abbey, you’ll love this” sticker) in a planned historical novel trilogy.
13P, New York’s Impressive Playwrights’ Collective, Gives Its Last Show And Dissolves
“Since its formation in 2003 13P has produced shows that feature Kleenex-carrying Nazis, a talking bird statue, … intergenerational lesbian seduction and Monica Lewinsky. The group came together with a deceptively simple goal: to offer a full production to each of its 13 associates, most of them unknown at the time of the group’s founding. Its pithy (if slightly snippy) motto: ‘We don’t develop plays. (We do them.)'”
Donors Can’t Persuade Museums To Accept Their Donated Antiquities
“Across the country measures taken to curb the trade in looted artifacts are making it more difficult for collectors of antiquities to donate, or sell, the cultural treasures that fill their homes, display cases and storage units. Museums typically no longer want artifacts that do not have a documented history stretching back past 1970.”