“It includes rousing performances of ‘Land of Hope and Glory’, ‘Rule Britannia’ and ‘Jerusalem’ always accompanied by a sea of Union Jacks, but … The Guardian understands activists will be outside the Royal Albert Hall in force on Saturday handing out thousands of EU flags, which they hope audience members will wave instead of, or even along with, the traditional red, white and blue.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.07.16
David Lang’s new opera The Loser may yet win
Pulitzer-winning composer David Lang has written several operas so far, none of them in the least bit conventional, and all of them showing how much the ultra-minimalist Bang on a Can aesthetic can be fascinatingly at odds with an art form that’s traditionally grand. … read more
AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published 2016-09-07
The Four Parts of (Meeting) Speech
With a new academic year now begun, I’m noticing again how odd and awful meetings can be. People of strong intellect and good intent, when gathered over an agenda (or a lack thereof), … read more
AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2016-09-07
Gard Foundation Symposium–Our Communities: Day 1
Today marked the beginning of The Robert E. Gard Foundation’s gathering at the The Johnson Center at Wingspread’s conference center outside Milwaukee. Announced here earlier this year, Our Communities: A Symposium on the Arts is … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2016-09-07
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Study Describes Hollywood As “Epicenter Of Cultural Inequality”
The University of Southern California’s report showed that women had just 31.4% of spoken roles in 2015’s top 100 films, compared with 32.8% in 2008. Lesbian, gay or transgender characters accounted for less than 1% of speaking parts – or 32 out of 35,205 characters.
Toronto International Film Festival Starts Demand-Based Ticket-Pricing And Some Fans Object
“I just felt like no movie is worth $58. It’s already a stretch at $49,” said Jaimie Marshall, a Whitby, Ont. paralegal. She made the same decision to sit out American Pastoral, as well as the animated comedy Sing, to which she had hoped to take her 12-year-old daughter. Though she has been a TIFF member for five or six years, paying $450 for the privilege of early access to some TIFF tickets, she said “this has seriously made me question whether I will continue.”
Ruth Braunstein, Prominent San Francisco Gallerist, 93
“Braunstein was a purveyor of contemporary art when there was little market for it in the Bay Area, and an early champion of such artists as painters John Altoon and Mary Snowden. She was particularly supportive of artists who worked in clay, taking the so-called “craft” medium of ceramics seriously and building an audience for the work of Peter Voulkos, Richard Shaw and Robert Brady, among others.”
Cellphones As A Theatrical Device
If the contents of our phones are juicer than those of our relationships, can drama survive or even compete?
Why More Longtime Museum Curators Are Leaving For Auction Houses
“As the director of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh for the past five years, Eric Shiner worked to expose the broadest possible public to the Pop artist’s work. Now, instead of showing Warhols, he is selling them.”
Bye-Bye, Baby: Broadway’s ‘Jersey Boys’ To Close After 11 Years
“The jukebox musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons opened on Nov. 6, 2005, and won four Tony Awards, including for best new musical, in 2006. It is now the 12th-longest-running show in Broadway history; at its closing [on Jan. 15], it will have played 4,642 performances.”