“Death changes people. We have no idea who anyone is going to be until they die. In Hughes’s case it was partly the nature of his ambition that made it difficult for his readership to deal with him when he was around.”
Tag: 12.13.07
New African-American Movies Find An Audience
“It’s the changing face of America – people want to see themselves reflected a little more.”
Remembering Karlheinz Stockhausen
It may be that Karlheinz Stockhausen had to die in order that his music might live. How much of it is worth hearing is a matter of contention. Posterity will remember Stockhausen chiefly as the man who wrote the first piece of electronic music that did not sound like a bad telephone line in a thunderstorm.
A Rethink Of Britain’s Theatre Ecology?
“There are lean times ahead in regional theatre as the Arts Council considers how best to use resources in a colder financial climate. It is clear that the Arts Council is going to have to make some hard decisions regarding not just umbrella organisations and individual companies but also buildings and how they might best benefit the wider theatre ecology.”
Culture Of Choice (But There’s A Downside)
“Today, choice is about everything. Is this good news or bad news? Everyone knows what’s good about it. The mistake is to think that the good is all there is. The dark side, laid out by research, involves its paradoxical effects.”
Architect Piano Wins AIA Gold Medal
Italian architect Renzo Piano has been named the 2008 winner of the American Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal, the highest honor that the institute confers on an individual.
A History Of Censorship At The BBC
The BBC has always been funded by public money and its management often felt that its music should reflect public taste or, at least, not be out of step with it.
Defying Writers, Hollywood Directors Say They’ll Negotiate New Contract
“The contract between the Directors Guild of America, which represents about 13,500 directors and associated production workers, and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, an industry bargaining group, is to expire on June 30.”
Why Larry Gagosian Is Opening In Rome
“Rome is a sleeping giant,” he says. His reasons for adding a Roman gallery to his spaces in Los Angeles, New York, and London is partly that Cy Twombly keeps a studio there. Another factor is his long-standing interest in Arte Povera, the Italian art movement of the 1960s.
Detroit Symphony Sidesteps $2 Million Deficit
Instead it ends the year with a deficit of $190,000 on a budget of $32 million. “The DSO was heading toward a deficit of about $2 million until 11th-hour largesse from a handful of its most generous donors stopped the flow of red ink.”