So Oculus Rift offers incredible possibilities for science fiction and horror cinema, not to mention brainless action films. Wait until James Cameron gets his hands on this shit. But what about artists?
Tag: 10.08.15
Svetlana Alexievich – A Difficult Translation
Listening to the people who lived through some of the greatest political tragedies of the 20th century, she seeks to “chase the catastrophe into the framework of the everyday and try to tell a story”.
Does Creative Genius Require Bitter Rivalry To Flourish?
“Think of rivalry as a type of über competition driven by mutual obsession, with the rivals propelling each other to spiralling achievement, and investing more mental and emotional resources in each other than circumstances would ever dictate on their own.”
New-York Historical Society To Open Women’s History Center
“The directors of the New-York Historical Society did not have to search hard for evidence that the role of women in history has long been underplayed.”
US Television Wakes Up To Growing Latino Audience With New Options
“Channels such as newly launched El Rey are targeting a young demographic that wants to see its bilingual and multicultural world reflected on screen.”
Art in America, ARTnews, Antiques Magazines To Consolidate Online
“The art media properties controlled by Peter Brant, including the century-old magazine Art in America and ARTnews, will be consolidated online at ARTnews.com by the end of the year.” The publications Antiques; Art & Business; Modern; and Skate’s Art Market Research are also included in the plan.
Gail Zappa, 70, Frank Zappa’s Widow, Executor, Defender
Before Frank died, “he asked his wife to sell his master recordings and get out of the music business, she has said. But, she noted, he never said what to do with his publishing catalog – the rights to his compositions – and so she defied his request and became the keeper of his musical empire. In 2002, she created the Zappa Family Trust to manage his intellectual property, including the rights to his image.”
Jerry Lewis The Auteur
“The love-fest for Lewis at Moving Image this Tuesday, like the one at the 92nd Street Y in 2012, had a remarkably young audience of a new generation of New York cinephiles … Lewis has become a central artistic reference point for the world of young cinema, and his interviewer on Tuesday night suggested why. That interviewer was none other than Martin Scorsese.”
The Most Unorthodox Choreographer On New York City Ballet’s Roster
Kim Brandstrup: “Because I’m not from a ballet background, I often don’t use codified steps. First you need the trajectory through the room, then later you can shape it, detail it and make the picture.” Says NYCB principal Sara Mearns, “We couldn’t really get it [at first]. It was like, how big a jump would get you over here, or what kind of turn would work there? Then we realized, we are out of our comfort zone, but we are really free. He is directing us, but he will let us go where we want with the movement.”
Tradition! The Indestructible ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
“Most of all, Fiddler persists because it’s a beautifully built show that offers all the storybook satisfactions and memorable songs of the best mid-century musicals, while also advancing the form by taking it into some unusually dark realms: the first-act curtain comes down on a pogrom, the final one on a mass eviction.”