“At this recently opened university – which was still young and free from historical traditions – artist/teachers including SoCal Light and Space art movement pioneers Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman and Ed Moses counseled students, employed curious teaching methods such as having classmates put crayons between their toes, collaborated with them on performance pieces, and even partied with them.”
Printed Books Are In Absolutely No Danger
“A physical book is like eating a great meal in a beautiful restaurant with a fantastic view; an e-book is like eating that same meal from a takeout box on your lap in a basement.”
James Earl Jones And Cicely Tyson Are Still Trailblazers On Broadway
“A hilarious physical mismatch — Jones is 6-foot-2 and broad-shouldered, Tyson 5-foot-3 and thin — they are nevertheless equal players in both stage presence and historical significance.”
Bradley Cooper Vows To Reveal His Salary To Female Costars Before Filming
“‘I don’t know where it’s changing otherwise but that’s something that I could do,’ Cooper said. ‘Usually you don’t talk about the financial stuff, you have people. But you know what? It’s time to start doing that,’ he added.”
The (Soon To Be Way More Powerful) Producer Who Took On Matt Damon
“Point blank: Brown is the reason why the ‘Project Greenlight’ audience sees a black location manager, assistant director and production designer when it tunes in on Sunday nights. She was in charge of assembling the crew.”
Ottawa’s Opera Lyra Shuts Down Mid-Season
“In the end, the shortfall in cash flow meant the company could not continue to operate, he said. The board made the decision Tuesday evening, after much discussion, to shut the doors. The company was also still struggling with a debt of more than $500,000, which became increasingly hard to manage.”
Allegedly Fake Joan Mirós Trigger Complicated Trials in Turkey
In late 2013, an exhibition titled Miró in Istanbul was shut down halfway through its run when the artworks on view were denounced as fakes. The management company that staged the show, the university that hosted the exhibition, and the Joan Miró Foundation (which was never told about the show) all sued the gallerist who owns the works and rented then out. The trials are now beginning.
‘Come On Up, Sweetheart’: James Baldwin’s Letters To His Brother
“Between the late 1940s and the mid-1980s, he carried on an increasingly dense and complex correspondence with his youngest brother, David. Many of these letters survive – some 120 of them, amounting to about 70,000 words. They give an unprecedented picture of his life and work, an epistolary autobiography: they bristle and crackle with the trials, dangers, errors, mistakes, and triumphs of one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century.”
‘Why We’re Translating Shakespeare’ – Oregon Festival Director Defends Controversial Project
Bill Rauch: “The Play on! translations are not being commissioned because we despair that people will never understand the original language … Instead, the translation project is about creating a new body of work … By commissioning 36 playwrights and pairing them with dramaturgs to examine each of Shakespeare’s plays, we have the opportunity to delve more deeply into the language of the texts and to create companion pieces (not replacements) to the original texts.”
After A Summer Of Breaking Barriers, Misty Copeland Gets Back To Dance
“My entire career has been working and striving and proving, and it’s just exhausting. It’s so much more than just the work, which is exhausting in itself. I want to just enjoy this first season as a principal dancer and really just focus on that… So now I feel like I can actually sit back and kind of settle in to this position. That’s exciting.”
Theaster Gates Bought This Bank For $1 And Turned It Into Something Remarkable
“This is a new kind of cultural amenity, a new kind of institution—a hybrid gallery, media archive and library, and community center. It is an institution of and for the South Side—a repository for African American culture and history, a laboratory for the next generation of black artists and culture-interested people; a platform to showcase future leaders—be they painters, educators, scholars, or curators.”
Subversive Graffiti Artists Punk “Homeland”
In the second episode of the fifth season, which aired in the US and Australia earlier this week, and will be shown in the UK on Sunday, lead character Carrie Mathison, played by Claire Danes, can be seen striding past a wall daubed with Arabic script reading: “Homeland is racist.”
What Does Music Mean To Us? New Research Says…
Older people are more interested in music as an intense, inner experience, while younger ones view it as a way of escaping bad moods and connecting with friends.
Is This A Real Photograph Of Billy The Kid?
A photo of the Western outlaw Billy the Kid, purchased for $2 at a junk shop, could sell for $5 million at auction, according to a rare coin dealer in California.
$300,000 Gish Prize Goes To Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks
The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize goes to “highly accomplished artists … who have pushed the boundaries of their art forms, contributed to social change and paved the way for the next generation.” Among previous winners are Bob Dylan, Frank Gehry, Ornette Coleman, Arthur Miller, Spike Lee, and Maya Lin.
Plácido Domingo Hospitalized For Gallbladder Surgery
“The 74-year-old tenor was in New York preparing for the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Tosca, which he was scheduled to conduct but not appear in. His spokeswoman said he was in the middle of a dress rehearsal yesterday when he experienced pain as well as vomiting and later went to the hospital.”
A New Chamber Music Competition With A $100,000 Prize
“Starting in May 2016, the M-Prize, as the competition will be called, will be the most lucrative chamber music competition in the field. Prizes will be awarded in junior and senior divisions in three categories devoted to traditional string and wind ensembles, and, in an unusual twist, an ‘open’ category to accommodate groups of mixed instrumentation or those employing technology, voice or improvisation.”
Yannick Nézet-Séguin Named Musical America’s Artist Of The Year
Joining the 40-year-old music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra as Musical America honorees are Tod Machover (composer of the year), violinist Jennifer Koh (instrumentalist of the year), and tenor Mark Padmore (vocalist of the year).
This Performance Left Blood On The Keyboard – Literally
Yefim Bronfman’s rendition of Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra in Vienna Tuesday night was even more dramatic than usual.
We’ve Just Learned A *Lot* More About ‘Swan Lake’
“The 1877 original was staged in Moscow, and was by no means the fiasco that used to be supposed. After its Moscow premiere, it was revived there for six of the first seven years of its existence. Recent discoveries … at the old Bolshoi building there, give us a new wealth of detail about it.” For example, the “Black Swan pas de deux” was not intended for either Odette or Odile, and the storm scene is supposed to have a real whirlpool.
Twyla Tharp On The Road: Why We Go Out And Tour
“O.K., you want the fountain of youth, here it is: Travel with a modern dance troupe.”
Here Are The Finalists For This Year’s National Book Awards
“Among the books that have survived the second round of cuts, a few clear favorites are beginning to emerge – while others have been displaced by less familiar names.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.14.15
Marketing and Development Terminology
This is part of a series of blog posts in conjunction with TRG Arts on the interrelationships among marketing, development, fundraising, and community engagement. The point of the series is that they are all rooted in relationship building and maintenance. … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-10-13
Worth 1,000 Words: An Illustrated Companion to My WSJ Review of the Wadsworth Atheneum
My article in today’s Wall Street Journal on the gloriously transformed Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford paints many verbal pictures of what I enjoyed during my visit. But “verbal” is often a poor substitute for “visual.” To help you see what I saw, here’s my illustrated tour of what I described in the WSJ … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-10-14
Snapshot: Deborah Kerr and Paul Scofield in Noël Coward’s A Song at Twilight
An excerpt from BBC2’s 1982 TV production of Noël Coward’s A Song at Twilight, directed by Cedric Messina and featuring Deborah Kerr and Paul Scofield. The role played by Scofield is a fictionalized portrayal of Somerset Maugham. … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-10-14
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