“It wasn’t until the last decade or so that more fully realized, just-might-actually-happen sea-based urban endeavors have emerged, made more urgent by rising sea levels and rural-to-urban migration.”
The First ‘Real’ Sherlock Holmes Movie Has Been Found
“The rediscovered film is the only one [William] Gillette ever appeared in, and is the actor’s only surviving appearance as the Baker Street detective, a role for which he was world-renowned in stage portrayals.”
Picasso’s Most Beloved Muse (She’s The One Most Of Us Have Forgotten)
That would be Jacqueline Roque, “a dark-haired divorcée 45 years the artist’s junior, who became his second wife in 1961. Their relationship endured for more than 20 years, until Picasso’s death at 91, making Jacqueline, who took his name when they married, his longest-lasting consort.”
A Charles Manson Musical (What Will Those German Theatre Directors Think Of Next?)
“The former cult leader who is serving a life sentence in a California prison is still a touchy subject, at least in the U.S. In Germany, a new stage musical about the convicted killer recently opened and provides a glimpse into Manson’s failed music career and his relationship with his followers who became known as the Manson family.”
Why A Popular Seattle Theatre Suddenly Shut Down
“The popular company, which specialized in new and contemporary musicals, surprised many in the local arts community — and drew national interest — with a Sept. 24 announcement that it was deep in the red and suspending operations permanently.”
Is Our Music Experience Being Degraded By Streaming?
The idea that music may go the way of newspapers, in which every outlet runs the same story, originating from the same source, over and over again ad nauseam, gives me a little chill. It’s bad enough when it’s a real news story being repeated with no new info. But it’s infuriating when it’s something as trivial as singer Robin Thicke fessing up that he lied about writing last summer’s creepy hit, “Blurred Lines.”
Can You Construct “Chance” Creative Encounters And Measure Them?
“Collisions (i.e. chance encounters) between creative people serve as the active reagent for great feats of entrepreneurial activity. Pack a bunch of smart people into urban space and genius is bound to happen. That’s Holacrazy.”
Toronto Theatre Has An Odd New Policy For Critics
“Factory wants to have a week of previews, then an opening night, and only then, five days after the opening, will they invite the media, at a point when the run is half over. Why? Most other theatres beg the critics to come and review their shows ASAP because they need the publicity.”
Child Porn Charges Against Australian Artist Dismissed
“Paul Yore was charged after his large-scale installation, Everything is F—ed, was shown at [a Melbourne-area gallery] last year. The collage featured children’s faces superimposed on images of male bodies performing sex acts.”
Coming Back To Ballet After Beating Thyroid Trouble And Weight Gain
Kathryn Morgan had been dancing with New York City Ballet for four years when she was diagnosed with an under-functioning thyroid – complete with exhaustion, hair loss, migraines, and, of course, weight gain – at age 21. After two years trying to dance through it and then two years off, she’s ready to relaunch her career. (includes video)
Family Of Ballet Stars Make Their Move To Broadway
Siblings Megan and Robert Fairchild and wife/sister-in-law Tiler Peck, all principal dancers at New York City Ballet, chat with Playbill.com about their upcoming leading roles in On the Town, An American in Paris, and Little Dancer.
Georgian Cinema Emerges From The Shadows
“The story of Georgian cinema stretches back more than a century and is filled with remarkable achievements, from silent films featuring stunning landscapes and dynamic editing to subtle anti-Soviet critiques and startlingly inventive poetic narratives. … It’s an aesthetically diverse but often daring cinema that has been internationally acclaimed, and yet some of its filmmakers have been underappreciated and many films have long been unavailable.”
Watch Matisse’s “The Swimming Pool” Get Restored
“After a five-year conservation effort to restore its original colour balance, height, and spatial configuration, Henri Matisse’s The Swimming Pool returns to view at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art … This video takes viewers behind the scenes of MoMA’s ambitious conservation effort and reveals the process behind bringing this iconic work back to life.”
“Crime And Punishment” Musical Coming To Moscow
Director Andrei Konchalovsky (known for the Russian film epic Siberiade and the Hollywood movies Runaway Train and Tango and Cash) will be staging an updated version of a rock-opera from 30 years ago that was based on Dostoevsky’s novel.
How Exactly Does The Human Brain Pay Attention To Something?
“Every moment, our brains are bombarded with information, from without and within. The eyes alone convey more than a hundred billion signals to the brain every second. … How do our brains select the relevant data? How do we decide to pay attention to the turn of a doorknob and ignore the drip of a leaky faucet? How do we become conscious of a certain stimulus, or indeed ‘conscious’ at all?”
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UK Theatres Becoming Important Venues For Standup Comedy
“Regional theatres are playing an increasingly important role in hosting stand-up comics, with the number of comedy events in venues around the UK up 46% since 2009.”
Kennicott: How To Visit A Museum
“After years of spending time in art museums, I’ve come to accept that I believe wildly contradictory and incompatible things about art. The usual cliché about this realization would be that by forcing us to confront contradiction, art makes us more human. But never trust anyone who says that last part: “art makes us more human.” That’s meaningless.”
Manuscript Of Important Mozart Sonata Found
“The head of the Hungarian National Szechenyi Library’s music collection has stumbled across a rare discovery.
As he looked through a folder of unidentified music scores, among the many copies and unremarkable scores he suddenly noticed a page that made his heart jump.”
Guggenheim Museum Plans Expansion
“The expansion plan comes just over 60 years after the Guggenheim commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design its original space and more than a decade after it abandoned a scheme for a second, Frank Gehry-designed museum downtown.”
Why The Artworld Is So Fascinated By Outsider Art
With the growing interest in outsider art comes the seeming contradiction of “mainstream” outsider artists, especially in the US, where monographs and high prices have created cults among collectors.
Dallas Symphony Starts A Fellowship Program For String Players
I… “want them to come away with an overview of the nuts and bolts of an orchestra, what it takes to run and fund an orchestra like this. This is not a management program, but we want to give them the tools to ask the right questions as they start their own careers, probably inside an orchestra as performers.”
Today: Let’s Talk About Growing Arts Audiences
Join the conversation: Building Arts Audiences – live panel discussion with Kurt Andersen, NEA chairman and national arts leaders. Oct. 1 at 3pm est. <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/buildingartsaudiences” target=”_blank”>#buildingartsaudiences</a>
The Destruction Of Mecca
“The dominant architectural site in the city is [no longer] the Sacred Mosque, where the Kaaba, the symbolic focus of Muslims everywhere, is. It is the obnoxious Makkah Royal Clock Tower hotel … The city is now surrounded by the brutalism of rectangular steel and concrete structures – an amalgam of Disneyland and Las Vegas.”
Two Cinema Chains Refuse To Screen “Crouching Tiger” Sequel Because It’s Also Being Released On Netflix
Regal Cinemas and Cinemark declared that they won’t show Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend, the first major release to appear on Imax and an online streaming service on the same date. Said one exec: “At Regal we will not participate in an experiment where you can see the same product on screens varying from three stories tall to 3 inches wide on a smartphone.”