“A raunchy musical version of Alice in Wonderland, which the director had been working on at the time of his death, is expected to be made by the same team who were working with him, incorporating his ideas but with a new director.”
Tag: 12.02.11
Thanks For Worse Than Nothing, Ralph Waldo Emerson!
“Oh, the deception! The rank insincerity! It’s just like the Devil in Mutton Chops to promise an orgiastic communion fit for the gods, only to deliver a gospel of ‘self-conceit so intensely intellectual,’ as Melville complained, ‘that at first one hesitates to call it by its right name.'”
[Language-Based] Art Makes/Stages A Comeback
Language-based art demands all of the brain but doesn’t get much love in the art world, at least not from the big spenders. But it’s coming back into vogue.
Playing Romeo In Canada: A Q&A With Dancer Brendan Saye
National Ballet of Canada dancer Saye: “The most challenging role I’ve received was the ballet man in Twyla Tharp’s In The Upper Room. I’ve never been so exhausted onstage before.”
Rejoice! Ticketmaster Probably Owes You Money
Thanks to a lawsuit, Ticketmaster owes a whole lot of people a fair amount of money. Not that it did anything wrong, of course.
What, And Who, Came From The WPA: A Life’s Work
Benjamin Abramowitz started working as a WPA artist when he was a teenager. But he quickly grew frustrated with its political restrictions, says his daughter.
For This Cover Designer, Obsession Produces Results
“A book’s cover offers an interpretation of its contents – some inflection, if only by its typeface or colour. And yet its effect on the reader is mostly subliminal. Book designers are the ultimate hidden persuaders.” But not this one – at least not any longer.
Saatchi May Be Right, But He’s Making Money From Those Trashy Buyers
“The first thing to be recognised about Charles Saatchi’s Swiftian explosion of rage against the art world is that he is uniquely qualified to say it. The second is that broadly speaking, he is right.”
The Art World Is Trashy And Hideous, Says Charles Saatchi
Saatchi: “Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and of art dealers with masturbatory levels of self-regard.”
Toronto Arts Council Faces Loss of $1 Million
Though Toronto’s arts bring in an estimated $9 billion a year to the city’s economy, city administration wants to cut 10 percent of the arts council’s budget. “There would be no way to cushion that level of cuts,” says the arts council executive director.