“There is a paradox in the missing cohort of current homegrown films and filmmakers at the box office. It’s not a lack of talent. Canadians make movies for Hollywood every day. We have the best movie craftspeople on the planet. It, X Men: Apocalypse and Blade Runner 2049 are recent Hollywood releases made mostly by Canadian crews. It’s also not a lack of market. Canadians spent around a billion dollars on movie tickets last year. So why has it become so rare for an English-language Canadian film to connect with audiences?”
Tag: 11.03.17
The Highs And Lows Of Shepard Fairey’s Eventful Decade
Mr. Fairey has gone from great heights to dramatic lows in the last decade. He’s risen from cult figure to cultural reference point on “The Simpsons” to committing what he now calls his biggest blunder during the course of the A.P. lawsuit when he lied to his lawyers about exactly which A.P. photograph he used as the source of the “Hope” image and deleted files from his computer to cover up the truth.
How Lord Byron Invented Our Image Of The Wild Horse
“For most of history, wild horses were regarded as food, pests or a source of new tame animals. The remaking of the wild horse as an equine noble savage is a story taking in Romanticism, extinction, theatrical melodramas and near-naked ladies. And it begins with a grudge against a man named Mazepa in the 17th-century Polish court, and a disgraced poet.”
Residents Of North Philly’s Most Troubled Neighborhood Are Putting Their Story On Stage
“Mike Durkin stands on Kensington Avenue, handing out fliers for a play he wants the neighborhood to help him write. It’s called The Old Man and the Delaware River, an adaptation of the celebrated Ernest Hemingway short novel, The Old Man and the Sea. … In Durkin’s version, the old man is the people of Kensington and the struggle is the opioid crisis.”
Cleveland Museum Of Art’s Big Plans Don’t Stop At Just A Million Visitors
Now that the CMA’s $320 million renovation and expansion is broken in, director William Griswold – having already said that he wants to boost attendance to one million annually – has a strategic plan to acquire $1 billion worth of art and increase the endowment by two-thirds, to $1.25 billion.
Play About Lenny Bruce Gets Cancelled After Anti-Racism Protests; Backlash Follows
“Half a century after Bruce’s death, the social satirist and free-speech champion is a character in a drama unfolding at Brandeis University, where theater and arts faculty decided to postpone the planned fall staging of a script by a distinguished graduate, playwright Michael Weller, after some students and alumni complained the work vilified its black characters and the Black Lives Matter social movement. Weller then withdrew the work, entitled Buyer Beware, to premier the play with professional actors ‘elsewhere,’ according to a Brandeis spokesman.
GOP Tax Plan Could Cause A Big Problem For Art Museums
Eliminating the estate tax could mean fewer gifts of art.
Sotheby’s Posts Better Than Expected 3rd Q Financial Results (Though Still A Loss)
Analyst David Schick of Consumer Edge Research, who tracks Sotheby’s stock, wrote in a pre-call note that “we continue to see evidence of better deal-making” at Sotheby’s—presumably a reference to more restraint with guarantees, which can prove a black eye for a company’s bottom line if unsuccessful.
We Have A Problem: The Internet Economy Is Too Huge To Handle
How do you regulate algorithms? “Digital capitalism badly needs new rules – because the old laws are no longer effective. They were made for an economy that traded in real goods and for which price was an important factor. That could all be taxed, controlled and, if need be, adjusted.”
Canadian Bookstore Chain Indigo Will Enter The U.S. Market
Good book news for New Jersey and the four or five other places the store will open in the next two years? Maybe. “The chain also continues to roll out a new bookstore concept which it introduced in 2016. The new concept re-positions the chain’s larger locations as ‘cultural department stores’ and places an equal emphasis on the sale of non-book items, as well as books.”