“First, Haitians received food and shelter; now the moving image has joined the humanitarian response. All over this rattled capital city, Port-au-Prince, outdoor screens are popping up, as a handful of organizations race to produce programming that entertains and informs the hundreds of thousands of displaced people living in camps without televisions or radios.” The… Read more »
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Indianapolis Museum of Art: 100 Acres to Roam, No Restrictions
The Fairbanks Art & Nature Park, opening next weekend, “is one of the largest in the United States and rare in its focus on temporary, site-specific commission. ‘We’re resisting this tendency in the last few decades to collect giant sculptures and then try to keep them forever outside,’ [the park’s curator] said. ‘These things have… Read more »
Call for Films: Reel Sisters of the Diaspora
REEL SISTERS of the DIASPORA SEEKS ORIGINAL WORKS For FILM FESTIVAL Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series is seeking films directed, written or produced by women of color. Reel Sisters is celebrating its 13th year anniversary and the festival has screened more than 350 films since its inception. Film shorts, animation,… Read more »
States Catch On: Representation Doesn't Equal Glorification
“Among the states that began underwriting film and television production with heavy subsidies over the past half-decade — 44 states had some sort of incentives by last year, 28 of them involving tax credits — at least a handful are giving new scrutiny to a question that was politely overlooked in the early excitement: What… Read more »
Tony Awards
Congratulations to Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, winning the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor and Actress in a Play. Fences, which Washington and Davis starred in, also won Best Revival of a Play. There were also several winners for the musical Fela!, the true story of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti. Bill T…. Read more »
Cache Of Lost Silent Movies To Be Returned To US
“The 75 movies are a real rarity — in part because early film was volatile and degraded quickly. ‘Only about 20 percent of the films produced in America during the silent era — that is the era of motion pictures before 1929 — survive today in the United States in complete form,’ says Annette Melville,… Read more »
Josephine Baker's Château Becomes A Memorial
La Baker “is a gilded banana skirt and a feathery hairpiece, a spit curl and a sculpted brow – not the rumpled woman in a bathrobe, dark glasses, and shower cap in the photo in the kitchen at the Château des Milandes,” which had just been repossessed. The estate’s current owner has made the house… Read more »
Explaining the French Passion for Film
“In France, cinema is widely referred to as “the seventh art”, along with architecture, sculpture, painting, dance, music and poetry. “Seventh art” is not a phrase one hears often in Britain, or America for that matter. But, in France, they view cinema as a form of artistic expression, worthy of study and discussion.” The Telegraph… Read more »
Are Movie Ticket Prices Too High?
“Even though ticket prices in the first quarter of 2010 were up 8% from the same period last year–the biggest yearly increase since theater owners began tracking ticket data in 2001–they’ve already taken another leap upward.” Los Angeles Times 05/21/10 Click here to read the entire article.
Restructuring Oakland Museum of California
“Because Oakland’s population was about 40 percent black while the museum’s governing board was entirely white, the director set up a 51-member Community Relations Advisory Council to make sure that a representative range of local voices was heard.” The New York Times 05/16/10 Click here to read the entire article.