Friday, March 30, 2018
"Mr. Gaylord, a World War II Army paratrooper who received the Bronze Star Medal for valor during the Battle of the Bulge, said he intended his sculptures to 'confront visitors with the real…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:04AM[SHARE]Cloud Column, a very shiny, 21,000-pound stainless-steel ellipsis by Anish Kapoor that has just been installed on the campus of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It's almost impossible to av…
SOURCE: www.chron.com at 09:34AM[SHARE]As Kapoor's Cloud Column is being installed in Houston (and drawing inevitable comparisons to Kapoor's Cloud Gate in Chicago), the Chicago Tribune's Kim Janssen and the Houston Chronicle's L…
SOURCE: archpaper.com at 09:33AM[SHARE]In December, PBS suspended Smiley's nightly talk show in the wake of allegations that he had behaved improperly with female members of his staff; within weeks, Smiley, furiously denying the …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:02AM[SHARE]This may not be the first time someone has said that the Met's audience is a bunch of babies, but it'll be the first time that it's literally true. "The company will present 10 free performa…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:46AM[SHARE]"The Cimetière du Montparnasse is at risk of losing one of two of its most distinctive occupants. A famous Constantin Brancusi sculpture of a couple embracing, Le Baiser (The Kiss, 1909), h…
SOURCE: hyperallergic.com at 08:31AM[SHARE]"Everything was against Marie-Agnes Gillot becoming a ballerina - never mind a great one. She was too tall, broad-shouldered and most of all, she had a double scoliosis, which sometimes give…
SOURCE: nz.news.yahoo.com at 08:15AM[SHARE]"Mr. Wilson, a longtime professor at the University of California, Berkeley, grew up listening to jazz and spirituals. He studied African music in Ghana under one of his two Guggenheim Fello…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AM[SHARE]In the years they occupied Iraq's second city, the extremists burned tens of thousands of books and torched the widely admired university's library. NYRB's reporters meet with librarians, la…
SOURCE: The New York Review of Books at 07:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 29, 2018
"Ken Simons has had his hands on Picasso paintings, moved Tracey Emin's bed and manoeuvred an Antony Gormley sculpture though a third-floor window. For him, a famous painting or sculpture is…
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 03:04PM[SHARE]"A podcast offers up intellectual property in a particularly appealing format - compared with a book or even a script, it's a stronger proof of concept of how a show or movie would actually …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:01PM[SHARE]The seven-day, 26-hour avant-garde behemoth requires not only vocal and instrumental soloists, choir, orchestra, ballet dancers, and electronics, but four helicopters as well. (Yes, the noto…
SOURCE: bachtrack.com at 01:02PM[SHARE]Gérard Lhéritier, the son and grandson of plumbers, built himself into the biggest, and flashiest, seller of old manuscripts and books in France, a businessman whose (heavily publicized) p…
SOURCE: Esquire at 12:03PM[SHARE]"In the early 1950s, a Mossad agent named Shlomo Cohen-Abravanel was sent to Egypt, under the cover-story that he was a French abstract painter named Charduval. Abravanel's fake artist perso…
SOURCE: www.tabletmag.com at 11:04AM[SHARE]The 40-year-old Colombian-Austrian, who's also chief conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, succeeds Philippe Jordan (who's also music director of the Paris Opera) at the start…
SOURCE: Forbes at 10:36AM[SHARE]Michael Kimmelman writes about the long-planned International African American Museum, to be located at the wharf on Charleston's waterfront where close to half of all African slaves brought…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:34AM[SHARE]"Three years since the Man Booker began allowing any author writing in English and published in the UK to enter, 99% of Folio Academy members who responded to the question have said that the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]"Quick quiz. Which of the following makes sense? a) Three pirate ships on a river in a landlocked country in the Balkans; b) A 47-foot-high bronze statue of an ancient warrior that is Alexan…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:03AM[SHARE]American artist Michael Rakowitz, whose family were Iraqi Jewish refugees, made a replica of the lamassu (a winged bull with a human head) which stood at the ruins of the ancient city of Nin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:47AM[SHARE]"[The video is of] Copeland performing [the] Swan Queen last week in Singapore, where she wasn't able to finish her 32 fouettés (she was criticized for doing the same thing when she debuted…
SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 08:32AM[SHARE]"Because of a financial shortfall, the Symphony Orchestra's board of directors have scheduled a special meeting late Thursday afternoon to see if the group will be able to find a way to affo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:16AM[SHARE]The city of Hamburg extended has extended the choreographer's contract for four more years, to 2023. He is already the world's longest-serving ballet company head, and at the end of this con…
SOURCE: www.welt.de at 08:01AM[SHARE]Inxeba (The Wound), about a gay love triangle taking place amidst Xhosa male coming-of-age rites, took directing, acting, writing, and editing honors as well as Best Film at the South Africa…
SOURCE: www.iol.co.za at 07:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 28, 2018
"The culture wars never really went away, but ... now feels like a great time to discuss one of the greatest sources of controversy of the past 30 years - Married ... With Children, an edge-…
SOURCE: tedium.co at 02:01PM[SHARE]Reporter Ryan Gibney: "Even with the release in 1987 of Maurice, they batted away any prying questions about their private lives. When I ask Ivory why this was, he comes as close to calling …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PM[SHARE]"Executive director Eduardo Mendez said the program must overcome a crippling economic crisis that has forced hundreds of musicians to leave the country and move on from the loss of José An…
SOURCE: www.yahoo.com at 12:03PM[SHARE]"Facing an uncertain future with the departure of its longtime artistic director" - W. Earle Smith, who's been at the helm since 1999, leading the company's transition from community-based t…
SOURCE: host.madison.com at 11:04AM[SHARE]The American author is this year's winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, funded by the Swedish government in honor of the author of the Pippi Longstocking books. "Woodson made her ch…
SOURCE: www.publishersweekly.com at 10:36AM[SHARE]Reporter Mark MacNamara talks to members past and present about how the collective's members make musical decisions, how they give each other feedback, what kind of person makes a good Orphe…
SOURCE: www.sfcv.org at 10:05AM[SHARE]"The list of prominent authors mired in harassment scandals has grown in recent months, and now includes best-selling children's book authors, prominent political journalists and a National …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48AM[SHARE]Russell M. Dembin: "For me it was more than fine: [the] casting elevated the play to another level, embracing the characters' Jewishness while speaking to a time in which many people, not on…
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