No other form of literature is taught this way; indeed, no other art form is taught this way. Kids are encouraged to read current, popular fiction in school. Perhaps by the time they reach high school their choices are narrowed, but at least by then they’ve been encouraged to read dozens of contemporary books that they love. Students are assigned novels and poetry by living authors, many of whom are—gasp—not white men. Art class is full of hands-on work where the students create while they study masters both new and old. Even music instructors teach jazz and hip hop alongside classical music.
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The Revolution That Flash Photography Created
“Flash brings a form of democracy to the material world. Many details take on unplanned prominence, as we see in the work of those Farm Security Administration photographers who used flash in the 1930s and laid bare the reality of poverty during the Depression.”
Indianapolis Theatre Plans Reinvention With A New Building
The Phoenix Theatre: “Once you build a big machine and have to keep feeding it, then you’ve made a decision that’s going to impact every area of the organizations, not the least of which is the artistic. But we never want to be so beholden to chasing dollars that that becomes our major pursuit… At the end of the day, the business operation is there to enable the art.”
Could E-Sports – That’s Right, Gaming – Be The Next Big Thing In Media?
They already are – millions of people tune in to watch e-sport championships online, and the players train every day for the chance to become famous (and rich).
Hungarian Film Wins At Poland’s Film Fest As Awards Season Ramps Up
On Body and Soul, a movie about strangers sharing dreams, won the Golden Frog (yes, frog) at the Camerimage Fest. But “before announcing the top prize winners, juror Stephen Goldblatt said the body felt they had to make a statement decrying what he called the ‘high degree of gratuitous, misogynistic and voyeuristic’ violence seen in many of this year’s Camerimage films.”
The Nightmare Future Of Filmmaking, Courtesy Of Amazon
The pieces are all in place: “Amazon has built a stable of services touching just about every part of the entertainment industry, from film and game development to ebook publishing and video streaming. It’s also built a retail empire on cheap piecemeal labor, free material generated by users, and an arcane system designed to connect people with things they want at the absolute maximum level of efficiency. So it’s not hard to imagine it — or a similarly large competitor — building a miniature film industry that looks a lot like an automated marketplace.”
Playwrights Are Finding Money, And Love, On The Small Screen
It’s true: “In years past, this relationship was an illicit tryst, a badge of shame. Today, it is an artistic triumph. Many writers head to theater school with dramatic polygamy in mind, and those already established in theater actively pursue meetings with TV executives.”
Last Living Person Linked To Gardner Art Theft Seeks Prison Release On Separate Charge
Robert Gentile’s attorney says he can’t remember pleading guilty on a weapons charge and thus, “the reputed Connecticut mobster, who authorities say is the last surviving person of interest in the largest art heist in U.S. history, wants to await sentencing in an unrelated weapons case at his home.”