“Festivals are one of the biggest growth stories in live entertainment of the past two decades and they are still expanding, diversifying from pop, rock and electronic dance music into poetry and theatre. “
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If There’s So Little Money In Canadian TV, Why Are Networks Spending So Much
“While the Canadian TV racket is crying poor and moaning about the pesky Internet ruining its sure-fire business model, there is loads of dough going around and around. Crisis, what crisis? Surely, in reality, it’s simply about adjustment and evolving.”
Even Famous Politics Blogs Are Joining In The “Death Of Klinghoffer” Wars
Wonkette’s first sally into battle carries the memorable headline, “Wingnuts Will Save You Poor Jews From Getting Pogromed By Metropolitan Opera”.
People Are Demonstrating Over Serrano’s “Piss Christ” Again
“Around 50 protesters gathered [Tuesday] outside the Musée Fesch in Ajaccio, Corsica, to demand the immediate removal of the photograph from an exhibition of 120 works by the artist.” Said one spokesman, “[Corsica] is soiled by the presence of this picture. It’s an insult to every Corsican.”
Meet France’s New Culture Minister
Fleur Pellerin, who is just turning 41, is the country’s first top minister of Asian descent. “Local commentators suggest that [her previous] experiences handling the innovation and digital economy portfolio will stand the minister in good stead in her new role.”
Did David Chase Just Tell Us That Tony Soprano Isn’t Dead?
That’s certainly what Martha P. Nochimson and her editors at Vox think. And so an essay of nearly 5,000 words – many of them, from both Nochimson and Chase himself, erudite and insightful – get boiled down (not least by Vox itself) into a seemingly unambiguous answer to what is actually quite an ambiguous question. (What does it really mean to say, “Tony Soprano lives!”?)
David Chase Responds: By No Means Did I Say That Tony Soprano Is Alive
A publicist for the Sopranos showrunner said in a statement: “To simply quote David as saying, ‘Tony Soprano is not dead,’ is inaccurate. There is a much larger context for that statement and as such, it is not true.” The statement goes on to remind us what Chase has said about the subject many times, and Vox culture editor Todd VanDerWerff offers a defense of the article.
“It’s The Wrong Thing To Ask About ‘The Sopranos'”: Matt Zoller Seitz On The Did-Or-Didn’t-Tony-Die Question
“I won’t take anyone’s interpretation away from anybody – not because I feel that certain interpretations are more provable than others, but because if you’re trying to ‘prove’ a particular theory about the ending of a consciously ambiguous and at times tactically frustrating work of popular art, you’re watching it wrong.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.27.14
Plagiarism, Libel Suit, Blackballing: Bad-News Summer for Art-&-Architecture Journalism
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-08-27
One Publisher Takes on Amazon
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-08-27
Call for Mini Stories
AJBlog: Engaging Matters | Published 2014-08-27
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This Year’s Opera Olympics
“From over 1,000 applications, 40 singers from 17 nations, including the United States, Russia and China, made it through to the main competition, which began on August 25. Following two days of preliminary rounds, 20 singers enter the semi-finals. Ten singers will reach the final round on August 30, which is presented as a Gala Finals Concert with an orchestra conducted by Domingo.”