- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
There's more to art than you think. It's not just theater, paintings, books and dance. It's the enterprise of human creativity and it takes vastly different shapes and forms. Here you'll find my thoughts about the arts in Charleston and beyond. Neither of us knows what to expect.
Category Archives: Simply Uncategorizable
News anchors in trouble too
November 14, 2008 – 1:21 pm
It’s Not Just Newspaper Journalists In Trouble Anymore
“Sorry, news anchors - you might soon have to share your job with avatars. A virtual news technology is turning heads by quickly creating news stories and commentary, no humans required… News At Seven (newsatseven.com) is an automated system combining 3-D avatars, images, video, opinion and generated speech. The [...]
Hard-wired politics
November 3, 2008 – 8:33 am
Our politics might be genetic, according to the Boston Globe. What does this suggest in light of my article about the so-called partisan imagination, in which being an artist makes one a liberal (or conservative)?
Studies: Political At Birth “Scientists are now discovering that our political attitudes have deep roots in our biology. Our place on [...]
Claim: the fashion industry is racist
August 25, 2008 – 7:55 am
Fashion is fashionable in more ways than one. Check out photographer Nick Knight’s video about what he sees as the pernicious influence of racism on the fashion industry.
One step closer to reunifying the Spoleto Festivals
March 28, 2008 – 3:30 pm
An Italian delegation will be in Charleston on March 31 to talk about bringing two cities and their respective international arts festivals — Spoleto USA and the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy — back together again after years of division, according to a press release issued Friday, March 28.
The news comes more [...]
NBC’s solution to its ratings problem . . .
December 14, 2007 – 4:30 pm
That’s right. Bring back the gladiators. From the late 1980s. That’ll bring in the crowds.
wick/radding/greenwald at Redux Thursday
December 5, 2007 – 4:45 pm
More from the inbox . . .
wick/radding/greenwald
+ ray evanoff, david linaburg, and sam sfirri
Live on the Redux Stage!!!
Thursday, December 6, 2007 9pm
Tickets available at the door
$10
Jacob Wick (trumpet), Reuben Radding (bass), and Andrew Greenwald (drums) will take on the Redux Stage Thursday night to present an evening of new composition and improvisations. Hailing from [...]
Journal: Digital or Bust
November 27, 2007 – 11:35 am
Your local cinema had better get on board with going digital, says Rob Nelson, a film critic for MinnPost, in an article called “Digital Divide.” Couch potatoes have enjoyed for years the joys of digital clarity while people who still feel the pull of the Big Screen are getting increasinly impatient with the slip and [...]
Ghost Rider would be proud
October 31, 2007 – 11:41 am
So that’s what they teach those cadets at the Citadel . . . .
IMAX No More
September 18, 2007 – 7:21 am
Last Friday I got an email from the local IMAX, telling me about all the cool that would be showing at the theatre through October. Transformers at the IMAX? I’d go see that. Dinosaurs 3D coming soon: an exciting film as IMAX documentaries go, with hungry dinosaurs coming right at atcha. So I was looking [...]
City of Glass
April 19, 2007 – 12:05 pm
If you’re a Charleston resident and you’re not sure what pioneering minimalist composer and prolific film scorer Philip Glass looks like, don’t worry — you’re about to become extremely familiar with his face.
It was already going to be the year of Philip Glass at Spoleto Festival USA 2007 before this. Last year’s festival began with [...]
