Note: I asked Mark Hansen, LDS musician and Mo’ Boy Blog author, to write a guest commentary/primer for A Motley Vision on LDS music. His response is below. He has also written a second commentary that speaks to the dilemma of artists finding an audience and the audience finding artists which will appear tomorrow.
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The State [...]
I don’t know how I missed this when I was writing my previous post on BYU’s “Thoroughly Modern: The ‘New Women’ Art Students of Robert Henri,” but the Museum of Art has posted an online gallery of selected works from the exhibit.
I wish that they had included links to slightly large versions, but here are [...]
Weekend Standard (subtitle: China’s Business Newspaper) has posted an in-depth article on actor-turned-filmmaker Rick Schroder. It mentions his next project — “a feature film he did not write called The Principle Wife, a story set in the 1870s about Mormons and polygamy.”
The story also focuses on how he found financing and the difficulties he had [...]
So does DB have the marketing chops, the ‘Fu’ so to speak, to market their new, nationally-targeted children’s fantasy series?
Perhaps. They’re certainly making a game attempt at it. Hoping to capitalize on the Harry Potter et. al. phenomenon, DB’s Shadow Mountain Books (their national imprint) is publishing “Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo” — [...]
Since Orson’s Telescope’s Jeremy Grimshaw is working night and day to finish his dissertation (right, Jeremy? That wasn’t you I saw logged on to the Warcraft server, was it?), he has left it up to me to inform ya’ll that the Spring 2005 issue of Dialogue features his essay “Music of a ‘More Exalted Sphere’: [...]
The University of Utah Press has just published “First Sight of the Desert: Discovering the Art of Ella Peacock” by Bay Area author Kathryn Abajian. The book — which combines memoir and biography — focuses on the life and art of Peacock, a relatively unknown 20th century Utah painter.
Abajian agreed to answer a few [...]
As promised, R.W. Rasband has posted his review of Eric Samuelsen’s new play “Family” to the AML List. It’s a well-written, entertaining review (and I’m not just saying that because I get mentioned in it).
Here’s an excerpt:
“Samuelsen’s play delivers an unusual level of insight and candor about the psychology of ‘ordinary’ Mormons. And how that [...]
Although Darlene Young lived in the same ward as I did for two or three years in the late ’90s and I knew her opinions on a variety of subjects from her contributions to the AML List, I didn’t actually become aware of her as an up-and-coming voice in the world of Mormon letters until [...]