“In the past, chairing an arts board carried an automatic knighthood. These days, though, a gong is worth less than a party loan and most titles look shabby and sub-prime. If the sole reward for hundreds of hours of budget scrutiny and sulky artistic directors is a Christmas card from Gordon Brown, why bother to apply?”
Tag: 11.21.07
Why Broadway Union Talks Broke Down.
Broadway is all but shut down on it’s busiest week of the year. “Behind-the-scenes chatter contends that the breakdown in negotiations was spurred by a rift in union leadership.”
Nureyev – Lost In A Mountain Of Detail
“Fourteen years after his death and several decades after his best performances, Nureyev’s dancing has faded from memory. All that remains are a few videotapes and a mountain of carefully posed photographs. Yet his career is not likely to be forgotten…he was the first dancer to pitch his talent against the Soviet state and live out the consequences.”
Big Search Of UK Museums Reveals Lost Art
“Starting in 2004, 25 researchers visited 200 museums and art galleries across Britain recording the history and existence – in some cases for the first time – of some 8,000 European works of art from before 1900.”
Report: Minority Actos Getting More Movie, TV Roles
“The number of roles played by non-Caucasian actors was at an all-time high in 2005 and ’06 — a continuation of a 15-year trend — and that the total number of lead roles (for minority and nonminority actors) in episodic TV grew by 10 percent from 2005 to ’06.”
Writers Strike Could Cost LA $200 Million
“If the writers strike persists through the end of the month, it could suck $200 million from the entertainment industry’s contribution to the Los Angeles economy, one expert predicts.”
Producers Sue Broadway Stagehands Over Strike
“The producers said in the lawsuit that to date their nine shows have lost $35 million in gross revenues from ticket sales, concessions, merchandise and other related items.”
Judge Rules Broadway Grinch Must Play
“er ruling came a day after she heard arguments from producers of the show and owners of the theater housing the $6 million production. Producers, citing a special contract between the show and Jujamcyn Theaters, wanted the show to go on.”
Archaeologists Find Romulus Grotto Under Rome
“Italian archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled the underground grotto believed to have been worshipped by ancient Romans as the place where a wolf nursed the city’s legendary founder Romulus and his twin brother Remus.”
Modernism – A Good Long Run
“Modernism was propelled by two main impulses: the urge to overturn established hierarchies and break rules and a compulsion to explore the artist’s interior world. These primal drives produced ‘a single aesthetic mind-set,’ a ‘climate of thought, feeling and opinion,’ unifying what might appear to be a scattering of disconnected artistic revolts.”