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An Actor's Business: Location Matters
Recently Canadian actors went on strike in a dispute over how they should be paid for performances shown on the…
365 Days/365 Plays: A Progress Report
Writing a play every day for a whole year — as Pulitzer Prize-winner Suzan-Lori Parks did in 2004 — is…
Rank and Phile
There has always been an audience for compelling stories and skillful storytellers. From campfire tales of heroic adventures and deistic…
International Literary Fellowship announced
With the announcement of a new international literary fellowship, the Scottish Arts Council has honoured a great living Scottish writer…
Bradford Festival will go on
A dispute between the private company responsible for the Bradford Festival and the City Council was resolved last week when…
Are all the 'real' artists in advertising?
Do all the 'real' artists work in advertising, not in the fine arts? While the Turner Prize may incite cries…
Digging through and crossing over
As a young boy in England, artist Eric Snell spent beach-side summers trying to dig his way to Australia. Why?…
Bah to the High Priests of Art
British art critic Matthew Collings is currently in Australia, to lecture (not surprisingly) on art, or, as he explains: ‘What…