Thursday, April 26, 2018
"[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told fans today that the long-awaited sixth volume in his Game of Thrones fantasy series, The Winds of Winter, would not be published this year - but softened the blow by revea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]The South African soprano was astounded when her coaches in the young artist program at La Scala told her to study the role of Lucia de Lammermoor. "I could barely sing a high C," she says n…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AM[SHARE]Mike Scutari profiles the Michael Kelley Foundation for the Arts, endowed by the late sculptor, which works to fill in the gaps left by the mega-gifts-to-mega-institutions that has developed…
SOURCE: www.insidephilanthropy.com at 10:18AM[SHARE]"When Kevin 'Iega' Jeff saw Fana Tshabalala's Indumba at the annual JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience in South Africa, he immediately knew he would ask Tshabalala to set the work on his c…
SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 09:12AM[SHARE]"Brace yourselves for a wave of Godard nostalgia. It's 50 years since Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and co. closed down the 1968 Cannes film festival in solidarity with student prote…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]"Little did the Bowdoin College Museum of Art know that an unsolicited phone call it received in 2014 would lead to an exhibition this summer that may change the way Winslow Homer is viewed …
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 09:12AM[SHARE]With a lead gift of $46.4 million from biotech investor William Bowes, the school will construct a building - just across the street from Davies Symphony Hall - with two recital halls, rehea…
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 09:12AM[SHARE]"On the occasion of the four-hundredth anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, New Yorker writers" - Elif Batuman, Richard Brody, Larissa MacFarquhar, Vinson Cunningham, Rebecca Mead, Ph…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 08:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2018
"On Tuesday, the orchestra announced a new residency at the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music, one similar to those it conducts at Indiana University and in Miami. The project…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:36PM[SHARE]Elif Batuman meets some of the actors who play fake family members, the clients who hire them, and the agency entrepreneurs who bring client and erstwhile family together.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 02:32PM[SHARE]Michael Cunningham: "The AIDS epidemic didn't mean the end of dancing, or sex, or drugs. It didn't have much effect at all on the general interest in youth, beauty and money. But it's puttin…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:24PM[SHARE]"Art lending libraries function like traditional book libraries: individuals can borrow an artwork, enjoy it in their own home, and return it by a due date with little to no fee. They have a…
SOURCE: hyperallergic.com at 12:24PM[SHARE]"Tokyo-based designer Kosuke Takahashi has redesigned the tactile script to make it readable for both visually impaired and sighted individuals. His new typeface, Braille Neue, updates the n…
SOURCE: hyperallergic.com at 11:18AM[SHARE]"The answer, just to relieve any suspense, was no, monkeys can't own copyrights or bring copyright infringement suits, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ru…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:18AM[SHARE]It may not be a new development at this point, but it remains true. "No matter where they are from originally, they like to live and work in the German capital, producing art even if they do…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18AM[SHARE]Abi Stafford: "A new director might also spread out roles more evenly. In addition to having happier dancers, I think this would help everyone would perform better. Those who previously carr…
SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 10:06AM[SHARE]Appearing on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Hank Azaria said, "I think the most important thing is to listen to Indian people and their experience with it. Listening to voices means inc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]"In George Balanchine's Concerto Barocco, nobody dies, nobody falls to the ground, nobody falls in love. The only set is the sky-blue backdrop. The women's costumes, minimal, are white tunic…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06AM[SHARE]"Six news awards were bestowed, with BBC News winning for its reporting on Rohingya refugees in Myanmar and Bangladesh. Among the winners was a Vice News episode on HBO, 'Charlottesville: Ra…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:04AM[SHARE]"The Philadelphia History Museum, the city's institutional attic of art and artifacts previously known as the Atwater Kent museum, has entered into talks with Temple University about a possi…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:04AM[SHARE]The Sai Yong Hong Chinese Opera troupe and its fans "are preserving a cornerstone of culture and heritage dating to the seventh-century Tang Dynasty (618 to 907), making it one of the oldest…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:04AM[SHARE]"In a news release, the [Little Rock] nonprofit cited 'inability to reach its projected goals for charitable giving and ticket sales.' ... The Rep described its future as 'under evaluation.'"
SOURCE: www.arkansasbusiness.com at 09:04AM[SHARE]He began his career as a singer/composer/arranger in the 1950s and '60s, working with (among others) Miles Davis and Charlie Parker. "Then, in 1971, with the jazz money running thin, Dorough…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:04AM[SHARE]"Netflix leads with three honorees - A Series of Unfortunate Events starring Neil Patrick Harris, which won for children and youth programming; mockumentary American Vandal about a high scho…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2018
"In the 1660s, the French philosopher Blaise Pascal speculated, 'the sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.' Pascal surely knew it was hard…
SOURCE: theconversation.com at 03:06PM[SHARE]With the Avengers movies, "the studio has breathed lucrative new life into its decades-old comic-book properties, and built a ravenous fan base for each new character it introduces at the mu…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:04PM[SHARE]"Newish LA Weekly editor Darrick Rainey and publisher Brian Calle run what is perhaps the most on-edge paper at this moment in American journalism. In December of last year, Calle - formerly…
SOURCE: www.cjr.org at 12:54PM[SHARE]"Over the course of a few weeks, we got a backstage look into the making of Playbill - the unmistakable, yellow-bannered magazine for theatergoers - and the transition of the 134-year-old Ne…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48AM[SHARE]"A deeply layered, rigorously controlled formal structure undermined by a strange embarrassing whimsy occurs in almost every painting. While accepted in outlier artists like James Castle, or…
SOURCE: hyperallergic.com at 11:48AM[SHARE]"Especially on Caruso's breakthrough records, the sound is scratchy, wiry and wobbly. The same holds true for early recordings of Nellie Melba, Luisa Tetrazzini and other luminaries of that …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AM[SHARE]The Alphabet (Google) subsidiary "says it removed 8.3m videos for breaching its community guidelines between October and December last year as it tries to address criticism of violent and of…
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