“The actors and creative team behind a play that depicts Jesus Christ and his apostles as gay face charges of blasphemy in Greece, according to court officials.”
Tag: 11.16.12
Should Critics Know Anything Before They Go To A Movie?
Slate (once again) proves that analysis and enjoyment are not always contingent on depth of knowledge.
Louvre Signs Distribution Deal With SF Museums
“While the Louvre has teamed up with American museums before, including the High Museum in Atlanta from 2006-2009 and currently with the Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas, this is its first long-term collaboration with a West Coast museum.”
The Ever-Rising Art Market
“Values for contemporary art–defined as any art created after 1945–are always in flux because art history hasn’t had time to weigh its lasting merits. But the number of high prices attained during New York’s fall sales proves newer art still attracts a broad group of competitive global collectors.”
Ian McKellen: There Will Be No More Actors Like Myself
“McKellen suggested that there would be no more actors to match the likes of himself and Judi Dench in the future because the experiences that challenged and moulded them were no longer in such fruitful supply.”
Did Out-Of-Touch Critics Close A London Show?
The closing of Loserville, playing in London was “almost entirely due to those slightly overweight white, male, middle-class critics in their late-50s who closed it.”
Can Carlos Acosta Revive Cuba’s Stillborn National Dance Academy?
“It has the ring of a modern Cuban fairy tale: A handsome ballet star returns to his native land and discovers an abandoned dance school, which he vows to restore to life. Yet Carlos Acosta’s dream of founding a dance center in one of Cuba’s most storied but neglected revolution-era buildings has touched off a bitter squabble.”
Danny Boyle On UK Culture Secretary: ‘Outrageous’
“Speaking after an event that brought together the heads of 23 of England’s leading regional theatres, [the acclaimed director] told The Guardian that the lack of attention to the arts shown by the culture secretary, Maria Miller, was ‘outrageous … This is cultural life of our country. She is the minister of fucking culture. I mean, come on’.”