“It was a second day of dark Broadway theaters and disappointed audiences as striking stagehands reaffirmed their commitment Sunday to remain off the job until producers started acting ‘honorably’ at the negotiating table.”
Tag: 11.11.07
At The Movies: Signs Of Real Character
“Character actors may not get the big salaries, Airstream trailers and fluff- writing journalists following them on their trips to Africa. But in the recent past, it seems as if they’re routinely blowing away the leading men and women who get the bigger share of the glory.”
The End Of The Hit Movie Song
It seems there’s just no room on the pop charts any more for original movie songs that make the hit charts. “Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” rap from the 2002 film “8 Mile” is the rare recent Oscar winner that’s also had radio success — as catchy as “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” was from 2005’s “Hustle & Flow,” it wasn’t exactly radio-friendly.”
A Few Clouds In Seattle Art Museum’s Blue Sky?
The Seattle Art Museum has opened two major expansions, announced $1 billion in donations of art and bumped up its endowment. But admission prices are up, some obvious acquisitions have slipped through the museum’s fingers, and the museum isn’t showing leadership is presenting art from the region…
Hartford’s Atheneum At A Crossroads
“The Wadsworth as it existed under Austin is never coming back because Hartford as it existed when Chick Austin was here is never coming back. Efforts can be made to turn the city and the museum into something new. Something that is vital and alive but it won’t be what it was when, as has been breathlessly recounted, Gertrude Stein was hanging out with Chick.”
The Theatre Of Art (Or Is It?)
“Art that turns spectators into performers has been around since before Joseph Beuys, ditto art that tries to eliminate the material object”. But is “a new theatricality is emerging in contemporary art?” Unlikely…
Archaeologists Discover 4000-Year-Old Peruvian Temple
The temple, named Ventarron by the team of scientists that uncovered it, includes murals and a staircase that leads up to an altar, likely used for fire worship.
Detroit Institute Of Arts Opens A $158 Million Redo
The museum’s head-to-toe renovations mark the most sweeping reinvention of the DIA since it moved into its original beaux arts-style building on Woodward in 1927. Nearly every square inch of the museum has gone under the knife.
NBC: It Ain’t Easy Being Green
“It was NBC Universal’s ‘green week,’ in which almost every prime-time show was mandated by Chief Executive Jeff Zucker to include some sort of environmental theme. Unfortunately — or perhaps this was expertly plotted by sinister Big Media — the green initiative was completely overshadowed by the long-anticipated writers strike. Whoops!”
The Cleveland Orchestra’s Enigmatic Leader
To read the reviews of the orchestra’s European tour “is to begin to understand how polarizing a figure conductor Franz Welser-MÖst has become. In Austria, some consider him to be the heir apparent to the late, eminent conductor Herbert von Karajan. Elsewhere, Welser-MÖst is either admired or a source of mystification.”