Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who won a Palme d’Or at Cannes for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Remember His Past Lives, has an installation in Beijing that depicts – in video, sound and still photography – a woman “recovering from surgery on her legs after a motorcycle accident, right before she goes to sleep with a stranger visiting her” at home by the Mekong River.
Tag: 11.30.11
Haut-Bourgeois Movie-Going In China
“New theaters are opening all over the country, especially in the big cities, where you’ll find cineplexes like cherries atop the towering new shopping malls.” Many of them are ostentatiously upscale, with luxurious decor and furnishings, advanced “4-D” technology (moving seats), and ticket prices that signal high status.
Louisville Actors Theatre Names Les Waters New Artistic Director
“The Actors Theatre, considered one of the most prestigious professional theater companies in the United States, has introduced more than 400 plays into the American and international repertoire. More than 200,000 people annually attend its events, and the company has received most of the awards honoring regional theater, including the Tony.”
How Miami Became A Cultural Destination In Ten Short Years
“Ten years ago Miami was known mostly for its beaches and nightlife. Today it is a cultural destination with burgeoning ambitions.”
Why Artists Should Pass On The London Olympics
“At a time of particularly vicious cuts to university arts and humanities funding, the cynical deployment of artists – whose main contribution to culture resembles nothing so much as the invention of a brand – is insulting. Rather than comply with such nonsense, artists should mobilise themselves against profiteering beneficiaries of the Olympics, not take on the role of quiescent performing dogs.”
Study: Removing Ads From CBC Would Be Disastrous
The study “depicts a grim scenario in which CBC/Radio Canada would lose about $360-million in revenue, but also face $190-million in increased programming costs to fill the airtime once occupied by ads. If the broadcaster spread those losses – of about $550-million – over all programming, the quality of its television schedules would suffer.”
“Book Of Mormon” Earns Back Its Investment In Only Nine Months
“Mormon” is the first commercially successful musical from the 2010-11 season, which had an unusually large number of original musicals open, including the still-running “Sister Act” and “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” and flops like “Catch Me If You Can” and “Wonderland.”
Arts Council England Issues Intern Guidelines For Arts Organizations
The document outlines the legal obligations for arts and cultural organisations offering internships, as well as highlighting best practice. In addition to paying interns a wage, it recommends that companies offer an “open, transparent and fair” recruitment process and give interns “meaningful experiences and responsibilities that contribute to the aims of the organisation”.
More And More Bookstores Abandon Author Readings
“The shift has something to do with a re-evaluation of bookstore patrons’ skill set. They can, after all, read the book for themselves–in fact, they may have done so in advance of the author’s visit. But it has at least as much to do with a consideration of authors’ skill set. Sure, they know how to read, but they may be none too skilled doing it out loud.”
Something New Discovered About Stonehenge
“Using noninvasive technologies such as ground-penetrating radar and geophysical imaging, a team from the University of Birmingham’s IBM Visual and Spatial Technology Centre, known as VISTA, and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology in Vienna, discovered evidence of two huge pits positioned on a celestial alignment at Stonehenge.”