Wednesday, March 28, 2018
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…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:34AM[SHARE]With institutions ever more reliant on the big gifts that come with naming rights to fund new facilities or renovations - and especially when, as with the Sacklers or Kochs, controversy gets…
SOURCE: www.apollo-magazine.com at 09:02AM[SHARE]Earlier this month, French culture minister Françoise Nyssen announced that she would like to see the painting travel to different museums around the country as a way to counter what she …
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 08:31AM[SHARE]"[The Israeli series] The Silence Breaker is billed as an investigative factual entertainment format that will expose real-life sexual harassment at the workplace. Using hidden cameras, the …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:15AM[SHARE]A new tourist attraction in Bandung, Indonesia, called Rabbit Town features installations that bear extraordinary resemblances to Chris Burden's Urban Light (at the entrance to LACMA), Yayoi…
SOURCE: hyperallergic.com at 08:08AM[SHARE]"Kirill S. Serebrennikov ... [is] accused of embezzling 133 million rubles, or about $2.3 million, in government funds allocated to a festival he ran. For many in Russia and abroad, however,…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:44AM[SHARE]"The coolly elegant and craftily enigmatic French actress ... drew acclaim for performances in the Oscar-winning films Babette's Feast and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie as well as ma…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Alisa Solomon: "How deeply and daily disappointing that the paper of record erases the same people and perspectives that are ever more disdained by the current regime. That for me, at least,…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:01PM[SHARE]"Written in the Jane Eyre author's own hand, the 77-line poem and a 74-line story were found in the leaves of a book belonging to her mother and sold to [The Brontë Society] in 2015."
SOURCE: www.thebookseller.com at 01:02PM[SHARE]"After all, you can wear professional-looking clothes and behave in a way appropriate to your job, but as soon as you open your mouth, your accent betrays your upbringing. As the linguist Ch…
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 12:03PM[SHARE]"Mr. Grossman moved to Washington in 1976 to take charge of PBS, at the time little more than a loosely aligned group of hundreds of locally controlled educational TV stations around the cou…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:04AM[SHARE]"We looked at the 30 most visited museums in the US in our 2016 survey and found that, while places such as Chicago might have more museumgoers, residents of cities such as Minneapolis, Gran…
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 10:36AM[SHARE]"The RIAA released its 2017 year-end revenue report on Thursday, showing that revenue from digital downloads plummeted 25 percent to $1.3 billion over the previous year. Revenue from physica…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:05AM[SHARE]"For decades, visitors to the world-famous tomb of King Tutankhamen in Egypt have noticed ugly brown spots covering the wall paintings lining the burial chamber. And for years the Egyptian a…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:03AM[SHARE]"The musicians' annual base pay, currently at a minimum of $98,100, will increase each year of the [four-year] contract by 3.9 percent, 2.5 percent, 2.4 percent, and 2.6 percent, respectivel…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 08:47AM[SHARE]"Whether a person portrayed in one of these expressive works is a world-renowned film star - 'a living legend' - or a person no one knows, she or he does not own history," said the unanimous…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:32AM[SHARE]"The Museum of Modern Art (MAM) in Rio de Janeiro announced on Sunday that it is selling the only Jackson Pollock painting currently on public view in Brazil. The museum expects the work, N…
SOURCE: hyperallergic.com at 08:16AM[SHARE]"Homes across Belgium have been raided by police investigating allegations that counterfeit Russian avant garde works were exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent. The display of 26 pi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AM[SHARE]"The decision to relieve [Kenneth] Greve of his managerial role followed accusations by some dancers that Greve had engaged in inappropriate conduct, including comments about their appearanc…
SOURCE: yle.fi at 07:30AM[SHARE]Friday, March 23, 2018
In her speech before presenting the Best Director Oscar this year, Emma Stone said, "It is the director whose indelible touch is reflected on every frame." However, writes Ryan Gilbey, "the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:01PM[SHARE]In the first generations of television, reflecting the idea(l) of the "classless" American society, the families in sitcoms tended to be solidly middle-class: Father Knows Best, Leave It To …
SOURCE: www.smithsonianmag.com at 12:02PM[SHARE]"Asian travellers are flocking to museums in the West to admire his artistic creations. Multi-million dollar paintings by the prolific artist have become the most sought after objects of des…
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 11:03AM[SHARE]"How can you be a dictator without your sacred text, without a document to show your word is law?" From Lenin's dense treatises and Hitler's notorious memoir, through Mao's "little red book"…
SOURCE: newrepublic.com at 10:04AM[SHARE]"Amid the manifold campaigns to make classical music more accessible, less patriarchal, to take itself less absolutely seriously and to crack a smile - if not a joke - the outdated term is g…
SOURCE: van-us.atavist.com at 09:33AM[SHARE]"Librarianship asks you to do 12 things at once and then when you're in the middle of those projects wonders if you've got any tax forms left or an eclipse viewer. It's endless questions. It…
SOURCE: lithub.com at 09:17AM[SHARE]"[The suit is] on behalf of the resident Neal Morris, who is facing potential jail time over a mural painted on his private property that the city has demanded he remove. The mural, by the a…
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 08:46AM[SHARE]"Ms. Wersba began writing in the 1960s, and her work reflected the era's new realism in literature for younger readers with stories no longer confined to intact nuclear families and sanitize…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:31AM[SHARE]"Often, the changes being made are nearly imperceptible from the outside. ... By altering funding policies, swapping artistic directors or terminating contracts, [the ruling Law and Justice …
SOURCE: van-us.atavist.com at 08:15AM[SHARE]As Israel lives under the most openly right-wing nationalist government in its history and as tensions rise with the Palestinians in the territories (and with many countries overseas because…
SOURCE: The New York Review of Books at 08:00AM[SHARE]"The popular website was launched by JK Rowling in 2012 after the final Harry Potter film was released and was originally conceived as a way for the British writer to maintain and grow the o…
SOURCE: BuzzFeed at 07:44AM[SHARE]"In the play, a puppet starts to offer a cigarette to a friend but his cough gets the better of him, which makes his voice a bit funny-sounding - eliciting peals of laughter from a roomful o…
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