Tuesday, May 1, 2018
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…
SOURCE: www.ludwig-van.com at 11:06AM[SHARE]"Opposition politicians accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government of leasing out' monuments under the 'Adopt a Heritage' plan that will see 95 historic sites taken over by private en…
SOURCE: artdaily.com at 09:54AM[SHARE]"The 1968 painting titled Buste de mousquetaire (Musketeer Bust) was offered up [by the Swiss discount retail website Qoqa] at the bargain price of two million Swiss francs ($2.0 million, 1.…
SOURCE: www.france24.com at 09:54AM[SHARE]"His breakthrough was [the 1955 film] The Dam Busters, about the 1943 British raid against the Ruhr dams in Germany's industrial heartland. ... He was [subsequently] recruited to showman Mik…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:54AM[SHARE]Chase Johnsey, a 14-year-member of the drag ballet troupe (and winner of best male dancer honors at last year's UK National Dance Awards), quit the company in January, saying publicly that h…
SOURCE: www.gramilano.com at 08:54AM[SHARE]"National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu said in a statement that she will resign June 4, after four years at the head of the federal arts agency. The Trump administration has twic…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:54AM[SHARE]"The group melded rhythm and blues, gospel, doo-wop, rock, blues, soul, jazz, funk and New Orleans's own parade and Mardi Gras rhythms, in songs that mingled a party spirit with social consc…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:54AM[SHARE]"Over a career that spanned seven decades Shay pointed his lens at Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Martin Luther King, John. F. Kennedy and Ernest Hemingway - to name a few - for Life, Time…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 08:54AM[SHARE]Matthew Loden, currently one of the two temporary co-presidents of the Philadelphia Orchestra (and before that, VP for institutional advancement), takes over in Toronto in July. He succeeds …
SOURCE: www.ludwig-van.com at 08:54AM[SHARE]"The aim of the new rules, first proposed in 2016 in the wake of the Panama Papers scandal, is to increase transparency around financial transactions and require banks and vendors to verify …
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 07:48AM[SHARE]Friday, April 27, 2018
"Philosophers ponder the meaning of life. At least, that is the stereotype. ... In fact, professional philosophers rarely ask the question and, when they do, they often dismiss it as nonsens…
SOURCE: aeon.co at 04:04PM[SHARE]Chris Harris: "I imagine it's popular in grade schools because it's a simple format. Then again, My Dinner with André has a simple format, but I'm guessing it doesn't play gangbusters at a …
SOURCE: lithub.com at 03:04PM[SHARE]"In interviews, he seemed to delight in airing his grievances about other writers' work, especially when he considered them unfairly beloved by the public. Reading his complaints half a cent…
SOURCE: lithub.com at 01:54PM[SHARE]The Goodman Theater's five-and-a-half-hour stage adaptation of Roberto Bolaño's mammoth, seemingly unstageable novel 2666 drew a stream of ardent fans of the Chilean novelist to Chicago i…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PM[SHARE]"Gina Gibney runs two enormous dance spaces in New York City: Together they contain 23 studios, five performance spaces, a gallery, a conference room, a media lab and more. Gibney is now pro…
SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 11:42AM[SHARE]"Flight, from Glasgow-based theater company Vox Motus, is not exactly theater in the traditional sense. In fact, there are no live performers. The entire story is told via 230 miniature dior…
SOURCE: www.pri.org at 11:42AM[SHARE]"Part of classical music's conceit (as well as other genres'), even among many contemporary audiences, is the notion of a universal beauty in music, and there's nothing fundamentally wrong w…
SOURCE: van-us.atavist.com at 10:36AM[SHARE]"The Deminer" - a documentary about a Kurdish Peshmerga officer who disarms mines - "makes for nervous viewing. Each of the four detonations we see ratchets up the sense of inevitability. It…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]"Independent broadcaster KCETLink Media Group (KCET), based in Burbank, and PBS SoCal (KOCE) in Costa Mesa, unveiled Wednesday a plan for 'a merger of equals.' They aim to become a powerful …
SOURCE: current.org at 09:36AM[SHARE]A winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions in 1964, the Canadian mezzo had a career at the Met and many North American companies, but she was best known as Joan Sutherland…
SOURCE: operawire.com at 09:36AM[SHARE]"David Zwirner, whose namesake art gallery is one of the world's largest, said he was prepared to pay more for space rental at art fairs if the extra money could help smaller galleries take …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:36AM[SHARE]"On 1 November [Sabine] Schormann will replace Wolfgang Orthmayr, a producer of musicals who was appointed interim managing director in April. His beleaguered predecessor, Annette Kulenkampf…
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 09:36AM[SHARE]"The move followed an October decision by the Pittsburgh Art Commission, which found that the statue should be removed within six months and hosted in a private, 'properly contextualized' lo…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:24AM[SHARE]"Once a community decision has been made about a controversial monument, officials often have to deal with public preservation laws designed to impede the removal of historic monuments. Effo…
SOURCE: www.artsy.net at 08:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2018
"On a mild spring evening, ten people gathered for dinner in a converted brewery in east London to speak of serious things. The event was hosted by Norn, a hospitality company that describes…
SOURCE: www.1843magazine.com at 03:48PM[SHARE]"A strange thing is happening in modern philosophy: many philosophers don't seem to believe that there is such a thing as human nature. What makes this strange is that, not only does the new…
SOURCE: aeon.co at 02:42PM[SHARE]"After kicking things off with stirring origin movies like Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger, the series has gradually started to examine the shaky underpinnings of its …
SOURCE: The Atlantic Subscription at 01:36PM[SHARE]"On a Friday night in central London, 176 shelled gastropods 'dance' around me ... to a stretched-out, 47-minute long looping rendition of Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', played at 35 B…
SOURCE: www.wired.co.uk at 12:32PM[SHARE]"The [Heni Talks] website currently has 25 videos and plans to post new films once every two weeks. Many are presented by high-profile artists and art-world figures such as Damien Hirst, Jer…
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 11:24AM[SHARE]"[Her] powerful, quietly beautiful photographs explored the lived realities of members of various marginalized groups, including women, lesbians, Latinas, the working class, overweight peopl…
SOURCE: www.artnews.com at 11:24AM[SHARE]"[The author] told fans today that the long-awaited sixth volume in his Game of Thrones fantasy series, The Winds of Winter, would not be published this year - but softened the blow by revea…
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