Thursday, May 3, 2018
"A little more than a year ago, New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova announced that she was diving into the world of professional poker as a new player, all for the purpose of writing a book ab…
SOURCE: deadspin.com at 11:04AM[SHARE]Almost exactly one year ago, an unknown man jogged into the Opera Gallery in Aspen, walked up to Christopher Wool's painting Untitled 2004, cut it twice with a knife, and jogged right out. P…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 09:54AM[SHARE]"[The retired ABT star's] Sleeping Beauty Dreams, an avant-garde dance production about the internal world of the cursed princess during the one hundred years she was asleep, [is] premiering…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 09:54AM[SHARE]Yes, the fallout from the sexual harassment scandal has gotten that bad: "The Swedish Academy yesterday discussed the Nobel prize and came to no decision," said the head of the panel last we…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]"The list of regional art organizations receiving support from KeyBank includes Playhouse Square, the Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Museum of Art, and now, the Cleveland-based Rock and Roll…
SOURCE: www.insidephilanthropy.com at 09:54AM[SHARE]"As Poland celebrates the centenary of its independence this year, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in collaboration with Polish Television and Polish Radio has organised [the International Cho…
SOURCE: bachtrack.com at 08:48AM[SHARE]"Anna Coliva, the well-respected director of Rome's Galleria Borghese, one of Italy's top museums, is to stand trial on charges of absenteeism and defrauding the public purse ... In total, s…
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 08:48AM[SHARE]"Wages have stagnated as funding cuts take hold. Young musicians are particularly affected, with two-fifths of newcomers taking unpaid work in the last year. Forty-four per cent of players t…
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 08:48AM[SHARE]"Not only am I a black choreographer I'm a modern choreographer. I have a fear that if this piece is seen as a failure, they will never hire another black choreographer again. ... I just wan…
SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 08:48AM[SHARE]Just last September, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) opened in a repurposed grain silo on the Cape Town waterfront. And just last week, the Norval Foundation, funded by r…
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 07:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Amos Barshad: "It's been years since the site had the kind of cultural cachet on which it built its empire. But music fans of a certain age can still rattle off the acts that landed notoriou…
SOURCE: slate.com at 03:18PM[SHARE]Martin Rowson: "After I graduated I sold a cartoon series to New Statesman titled 'Scenes from the Lives of the Great Socialists', based on hideously contrived puns on the defining dicta of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PM[SHARE]"As a system, art fairs are like America: They're broken and no one knows how to fix them. Like America, they also benefit those at very top more than anyone else, and this gap is only growi…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:06PM[SHARE]Dancer Benedict Nguyen: "We make contributions to creative processes all the time. Some of these are obvious: We often improvise material or generate entire phrases to be incorporated into a…
SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 12:04PM[SHARE]Under a new law submitted in the UK Parliament last week, "anyone caught using automated software to instantly buy tickets in such a way will face an unlimited fine. The move is part of a wi…
SOURCE: www.artsprofessional.co.uk at 10:48AM[SHARE]"Although the vast majority are concerned that taking the 'wrong' sort of money could damage their reputation, just one in four report that their organisation has any sort of ethical fundrai…
SOURCE: www.artsprofessional.co.uk at 10:48AM[SHARE]"The Weinstein Company on Tuesday named a Dallas private equity firm as the winning bidder in its bankruptcy sale, spurning an offer by the Broadway producer Howard Kagan. The victor - for n…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48AM[SHARE]"His long career at The Chronicle began when he was hired in May 1992 as a temporary copy editor in the section he would go on to oversee, Datebook. Wiegand distinguished himself as someone …
SOURCE: www.sfchronicle.com at 09:48AM[SHARE]"The Menil Drawing Institute, which has looked so enticingly ready for months from Richmond Avenue, will open Nov. 3 with an exhibition of works on paper by Jasper Johns that has been almost…
SOURCE: www.chron.com at 09:48AM[SHARE]With its 636th having aired last weekend, The Simpsons now holds the record for most episodes of any scripted prime-time series. Said Groening, "I actually sometimes meet a famous actor and …
SOURCE: USA Today at 09:48AM[SHARE]The MFA in visual arts program at Columbia is by reputation one of the best in the country, and it's almost certainly the most expensive, with annual tuition of $63,961. Yet the art studio b…
SOURCE: www.columbiaspectator.com at 09:48AM[SHARE]The Kazakh language has used a modified version of the Cyrillic (Russian) alphabet since the early Soviet days. Now the government of the Central Asian republic has adopted a plan to switch …
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 08:42AM[SHARE]"During [his] tenure as art director, Playboy won hundreds of awards for illustration and graphic design and influenced the visual appearance of scores of other magazines and newspapers. ...…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:42AM[SHARE]Director Quentin Tarantino, whose relationship with the Weinstein brothers goes back more than 20 years, claims that he's owed well over $4 million in royalties for his four most recent movi…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:42AM[SHARE]Last week, two 18-ton cables that serve as counterweights to the stage's metal fire curtain snapped. While no one was injured and the fire curtain did not fall to the stage, Paris Opera mana…
SOURCE: www.francetvinfo.fr at 07:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Hurston trained as a cultural anthropologist, and Barracoon, which languished in her archives for decades and is only now being published, is the result of months of interviews with Cudjo Le…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:24PM[SHARE]"Last fall, ... former Writers intern Tom Robson accused longtime Artistic Director Michael Halberstam of sexually harassing him both verbally and physically in 2003. ... A few weeks later, …
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 01:24PM[SHARE]Prisoner of Conscience, composed by Jennifer Jolley for female vocal quartet the Quince Ensemble, draws its texts from the Russian punk rockers' lyrics and from the transcribed proceedings o…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 12:06PM[SHARE]Rock star Tim Howar, playing Freddy in a new revival of the ABBA/Tim Rice musical Chess, had to leave the theatre at the intermission of the first preview performance because his wife had go…
SOURCE: www.standard.co.uk at 12:06PM[SHARE]"On my way up to the Paris Opéra studios I was so nervous! Literally shaking. But within about eight minutes, I was reminded, 'Oh, yeah: This is the same old thing. It's just dancers in a s…
SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 11:06AM[SHARE]Mezzo-soprano Mireille Lebel was set to sing the female lead, Penelope, in Monteverdi's Return of Ulysses for Toronto's baroque opera company, Opera Atelier, when she suffered third-degree b…
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