“The Old Vic’s audience is a baby-boomer one, and this casting is likely to be good box office and attract an age group that is increasingly used to seeing plays and movies directly aimed at its wallets.”
Tag: 12.05.12
Holy Grail Producer Was Not ‘7th Python’, Says Michael Palin
“Michael Palin has dismissed a suggestion that a film producer was a seventh member of the Monty Python comedy team. Palin – one of six stars of the Monty Python television series – told a high court trial on Thursday that the idea Mark Forstater was a ‘seventh Python’ would not have been accepted.”
Can Food Be Art? Perhaps, But That’s The Wrong Question To Ask
Sara Davis: “One reason that art is such a jealously guarded term is that we use it to elevate sensory experience to something special – the implication being that sensory experiences are not all that special on their own. … The phrases ‘eye candy’ and ‘ear candy’ exist for a reason. So we rely on the word art to separate out sensory experiences that feel more present (or, perhaps, more proper) in the mind.”
Defunct Syracuse Symphony To Be Reborn As Co-Op
“Representatives from organizations of higher education, city groups, the community and musicians themselves will all work together in a partnership in which they all share some financial risk.” As one local official put it, “The musicians have a lot more skin in the game. They’re all stakeholders in the new model. They’ll get paid when there’s money.”
Why So Few Black Ballet Dancers?
“We look at ballet as this thing that was about the past. We really need to understand that if we’re going to be a real vital part of the current dialogue of our time, we have to actually bring forward what our current time looks like.”
The Broadway Shows That Closed The Quickest
Now you see ’em, now you don’t! This week, three Broadway shows–“Chaplin,” “Scandalous,” and “The Anarchist”–announced their closing dates.
Why Are So Many Art People Complaining About The Art World?
“I miss being an elitist and not having to talk to idiots,” Hickey said in a recent interview. Art, he contends, is made for a bunch of extremely rich people for whom the critic acts as “intellectual head waiter”.
NY City Opera To Auction Off Most Of Its Belongings
“About 90 percent of the contents of its New Jersey warehouse will be put up for auction, with the company saving generic props and costume items: weaponry, top hats and shoes, for example.”
So MoMA’s Collecting Video Games (How To Decide Which Get In?)
“In case you’re curious: The videogames MoMA is jumpstarting its collection with are Pac-Man, Tetris, SimCity, Myst. It will soon include Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Zork, and Super Mario Brothers … among others.”
What’s Natalia Makarova Up To These Days? (Besides Getting Kennedy Center Honors)
Oh, choreographing and coaching in Japan, Russia, Uruguay … rewriting her autobiography in Russian … She explains (“I am all booked up until 2014”) in a Q&A with Allan Ulrich.