“Citing the creation of an environment at the company in which it would be ‘impossible for me to continue,’ the soprano [Andrea Anelli] this week announced that she had stepped down from the troupe she launched in 2006 as Opera Per Tutti.”
Amsterdam To Tourists: Go Visit The Hague For A Change, We’re Drowning Here!
The Dutch capital’s huge success as a vacation destination “has spawned eye-poppingly long queues outside the biggest attractions … so much so that Amsterdam officials recently decided to ‘make some savings’ in its marketing budget … [and] Mayor Eberhard van der Laan has appealed directly to visitors to seek accommodation in other often overlooked cities such as Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht.”
Even Ben Kingsley Is Calling For More Women To Direct Movies
Of course, it’s about how women can be useful to male actors: “I do feel that it is through the prism, the lens, the perspective of the female eye – the loving female eye – that a man is almost given permission to be vulnerable.”
No, Indie Films Aren’t Dead (Say Indie Film Companies)
In other words, if you’re older than 35, you don’t have to give up the movie theatre quite yet.
An Art Project Shows Your Phone Is Leaking Data Over Any Wireless Connection
“You can see exactly what articles people are looking at. … You can see exactly which comment they’ve thumbs-up’d.”
An SFMOMA Patron Trips, Falls Into $82M Warhol
“The incident happened Thursday afternoon, and the museum doesn’t seem to want to talk about it, saying there will be no official press release.”
Special New X-Rays Reveal The Secrets Of Medieval Manuscripts
“Bookbinders used to cut up and recycle handwritten books from the middle ages, which had become old-fashioned following the invention of printing. These fragments, described by Kwakkel as ‘stowaways from a distant past’, are within as many as one in five early modern age printed books.”
The Man Who Rewrote Art History
“Hugh Honour, a self-taught art historian who produced indispensable works on Neo-Classicism and romanticism and who, with John Fleming, wrote the monumental survey ‘The Visual Arts: A History,’ one of the first to pay serious attention to non-Western art, died on May 19 at his home in Tofori, Italy. He was 88.”
Kansas City Symphony Gets New Contract With No Drama
“We were losing too many talented musicians to other orchestras, and while we will not be able to keep them from going to Chicago and Boston and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, maybe we could do more with salary and working conditions to keep them from going to Utah, Oregon, Nashville or even Cincinnati.”
Writers Need Better Ways To Talk About Africa’s Past And Present
“Han Solo, Chewbacca and the Tynwald land tenure rebellion do not form any part of the popular narrative that informs discussion of Zimbabwe’s current predicament. And yet, it is memories such as these – of ordinary citizens standing up against the colour bar, of the euphoria in the first days of our hard-won independence – that have the potential to inspire the desire for change today.”
Thirteen Top Images Of Stockholm’s Bizarrely Beautiful Subway Stations
“More than 90 of the 100 stations in the 110km tunnel system, sometimes referred to as “the world’s longest art gallery”, have been decorated with paintings, installations, mosaics and sculptures by 150 artists since the 1950s.”
Does This Holograph Represent The End Of Pop Music?
“Japan’s Hatsune Miku, making her Canadian concert debut, incited the same unbridled glee among the sold-out crowd of 3,000 as a human would at the top of her game, despite the fact that Miku is a software program represented in concert by a hologram.”
Will ‘Hamilton’ Change The Supreme Court?
“How judges imagine the original meaning of the Constitution depends on their intuitions—half historical, half mythical—about the Founding narrative. If you can change the myth, you can change the Constitution. And ‘Hamilton’ is changing the myth.”