Thursday, April 19, 2018
Ousted editor James Marcus says that his dispute with publisher Rick MacArthur was over Katie Roiphe's "The Other Whisper Network: How Twitter feminism is bad for women," the magazine's Marc…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48AM[SHARE]"Cell phones in theatres may no longer be taboo. Well, at least in this case, where 12 Broadway theatres now offer GalaPro, a new app that expands accessibility services by providing audio d…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:48AM[SHARE]"A play based on Adolf Hitler's youth is sparking controversy for an unusual opening-night deal: Audience members willing to wear a swastika (provided by the theater) during the performance …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:42AM[SHARE]"Long before dealer Clyde Beswick established CB1 Gallery in Los Angeles, he spent 13 months in prison for embezzlement. Now, more than 20 years later, a group of artists is accusing the gal…
SOURCE: news.artnet.com at 08:42AM[SHARE]The 64-year-old conductor will step down from the music directorship of the Norfolk-based orchestra at the end of its centennial season, 2019-20. (She is evidently staying on with her other …
SOURCE: www.dailypress.com at 08:42AM[SHARE]"The book, which was believed to have been written by [Alex] Malarkey with his father, Kevin, was pulled from print in 2015 after Malarkey, still a minor, recanted his story. Today, at 20-ye…
SOURCE: www.publishersweekly.com at 08:42AM[SHARE]Olga Smirnova, one of the Bolshoi's biggest stars, and Jacopo Tissi, a La Scala Ballet alumnus who joined the Moscow company in 2016, were refused nonimmigrant worker visas to dance at a You…
SOURCE: pagesix.com at 07:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Andrew Sean Greer: "I think every novelist has a list of novels they never wrote - and never plan to write. Some are impossible dreams. Some are good ideas over a bad bottle of wine. And som…
SOURCE: lithub.com at 01:36PM[SHARE]"In the West, our idea of monastic ritual involves prayer and quiet reflection. But there are monasteries in Assam, in the far reaches of northeastern India, where prayer has always been, an…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:43PM[SHARE]Emily Nussbaum: "It would feel good to critique the new version [of the show] with a tolerant smile - to say simply that you shouldn't judge any sitcom too harshly, early on. ... I can't wri…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 11:18AM[SHARE]"The narrow lens is one of the play's surprises: It examines the titanic forces of urban renewal via a single establishment, never leaving the checkerboard-tiled stage of [Memphis Lee's] din…
SOURCE: www.citylab.com at 11:18AM[SHARE]"'I would rather try and fail than not try,' he says. He's applied that same philosophy to his career: Last fall, he decided to leave life as a ballet star behind to find out what possibilit…
SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 10:12AM[SHARE]"Von Trier was made persona non grata by Cannes after jokingly declaring himself a Nazi and expressing sympathy for Adolf Hitler during a 2011 press conference for his Palme d'Or-nominated f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]Dana Canedy: "In this case [the jurors] were considering a piece of music they felt had hip-hop influences and said, 'Well if we're considering a piece of music that has hip-hop influences, …
SOURCE: Billboard at 10:12AM[SHARE]"In 1975, Kasell joined NPR as a part-time employee. Four years later, he announced the news for the first broadcast of a new show called Morning Edition. Over three decades, he became one o…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:06AM[SHARE]"Michelle Miller Burns, former chief operating officer for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, will lead the state's largest performing arts organization starting Sept. 1." She succeeds Kevin Smi…
SOURCE: StarTribune at 09:06AM[SHARE]According to an official statement from the Florida Rep board, the reasons for the dismissal of Robert Cacioppo, who co-founded the Fort Myers company in 1998, were "behavioral problems [inc…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:06AM[SHARE]"After two years of planning and construction, and having raised an estimated $20m from Google, the Ford Foundation and private philanthropists such as the billionaire activist siblings Pat …
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 09:06AM[SHARE]One of South Korea's most famous actors in the 1960s and '70s, Choi was kidnapped in Hong Kong in 1978 and transported to Pyongyang at the order of Kim Jong-Il. With her ex-husband, Shin San…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2018
The not-for-profit Brass for Africa "has delivered 800 brass instruments to both Uganda and Liberia and reaches over 1000 children weekly. ... The children involved include those living in e…
SOURCE: www.gramophone.co.uk at 01:36PM[SHARE]"[Tracy K.] Smith, the fifth African-American to hold the title, has put an unexpected spin on it. She is taking poetry on the road around the nation, focusing primarily on rural areas where…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PM[SHARE]"Archaeologists in Sudan have uncovered a large cache of rare stone inscriptions at the Sedeinga necropolis along the Nile River. The collection of funerary texts are inscribed in Meroitic, …
SOURCE: www.smithsonianmag.com at 11:12AM[SHARE]The Margravial Opera House, built in 1478 by Frederick the Great's sister and now one of the best-preserved 18th-century theaters in Europe, is reopening after a six-year, €30 million …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AM[SHARE]Responding to the suit filed last month by Tonja Carter, Lee's attorney and executor, arguing that Aaron Sorkin's script deviates too much from the novel, a $10 million countersuit filed Mon…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06AM[SHARE]Christopher Marcisz makes the case that people don't go to the Berkshire Museum for art (the area has better art museums already) and barely remember the paintings they see there. People - s…
SOURCE: hyperallergic.com at 10:06AM[SHARE]"Mr. Ehle, who had been married to the British actress Rosemary Harris since 1967, wrote radio dramas, biographies, a nonfiction account of student civil rights protests at Chapel Hill, a hi…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06AM[SHARE]An oboist by training, Malgoire in 1966 founded La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, France's first period-instrument orchestra, with which he made more than 140 recordings.
SOURCE: www.limelightmagazine.com.au at 09:05AM[SHARE]Two decorative turrets were blown off the old gates to the site during a storm with heavy rains and winds up to 80 miles per hour. No damage to the white marble mausoleum was found.
SOURCE: www.dw.com at 09:05AM[SHARE]"More than 60 presenting organizations and dance companies from around the world are expected to participate, and the Royal Ballet in London will be one of several to tackle Cunningham for t…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:05AM[SHARE]Monday, April 16, 2018
"Known for an accessible and punchy writing style that decodes the complexities of contemporary art for a wide audience, Saltz is, perhaps, the most famous art critic in America. ... [His] w…
SOURCE: news.artnet.com at 11:05PM[SHARE]"The Pulitzer board called Cost of Living 'an honest, original work that invites audiences to examine diverse perceptions of privilege and human connection through two pairs of mismatched in…
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