Thursday, March 15, 2018
Dave Itzkoff visits the comedian at his 19-bedroom mansion (complete with multiple aquariums, bowling alley, basketball court, and Rolls-Royces), and accompanies Morgan on a visit back to on…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04AM[SHARE]Editor in chief Susan Goldberg: "I'm the tenth editor of National Geographic since its founding in 1888. I'm the first woman and the first Jewish person - a member of two groups that also on…
SOURCE: www.nationalgeographic.com at 09:33AM[SHARE]Christian Merlin (in part two of an interview whose first half dealt with changes in music criticism): "I think we're living in an era, at least in the West, where the cult of an individual …
SOURCE: bachtrack.com at 09:17AM[SHARE]"Two years ago, when Atlanta Ballet appointed Gennadi Nedvigin as its fourth artistic director, he voiced a vision to increase the company's size, add a main stage production in the fall, an…
SOURCE: www.myajc.com at 09:02AM[SHARE]A translation into Syriac of one of the 2nd-century Greek physician's treatises has been discovered as a palimpsest on the pages of an 11th-century Syriac psalter that once belonged to the M…
SOURCE: www.livescience.com at 08:46AM[SHARE]It's even more fitting than you think: not only has the world's only celebrity guerrilla artist tagged the Big Apple with an image of its emblematic mammal, he's made it represent the city's…
SOURCE: hyperallergic.com at 08:31AM[SHARE]"'PBT: New Works' marks the first time the company has mounted a full showcase of dancers' choreography for a mainstage performance. However, nurturing emerging choreographers on PBT's roste…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 08:15AM[SHARE]Corps member William Moore on his Weighted Affair: "I wanted to create a simple narrative - a dinner party with friends - to try to show the sometimes conflicting nature between what someone…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 08:14AM[SHARE]For all the attention that's now being paid to correcting the longstanding obstacles that women and minorities face in the field, a number of British theater workers (both onstage and backst…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]"The Musée des Arts Décoratifs has long had an identity crisis. It is in a 19th-century wing of the Louvre building ... but it does not belong to the Louvre. It gets confused with the Ã…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:44AM[SHARE]"The Hungarian State Opera and Hungarian National Ballet will make their US debut by sending 350 musicians and dancers to New York with support from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wi…
SOURCE: uk.news.yahoo.com at 07:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 14, 2018
"Santiago Ramón y Cajal ..., whose work in his field can be compared to Charles Darwin and Louis Pasteur in theirs, is also among the best draftsmen of the 20th century. If his penciled l…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:02PM[SHARE]"Should they fund a current art project or pay down debt? Should they rent a studio or buy one? Should they sit on a beach and think of great ideas or get health insurance?" Ted Loos looks a…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:03PM[SHARE]"This flowering of ballet in Egypt, an East-meets-West tale of Cold War cultural politics, happened long ago, in the 1960s and early '70s. ... The Egyptian ballerina Magda Saleh danced the d…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:04AM[SHARE]"Composed by [Shirley] Graham, who had studied at Oberlin ... and would later marry W.E.B. Du Bois, the opera" - titled Tom-Tom - "tells the diaspora story of African-Americans, beginning in…
SOURCE: news.harvard.edu at 10:36AM[SHARE]"[This] isn't to say 2017 wasn't a good year for the short story - it was, but the 'renaissance of the short story' story is an old one that is rolled out year after year. Does that matter? …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:05AM[SHARE]"It's not [Nicholas Hytner's] fault that during his 12-year tenure at the National Theatre he wildly discombobulated expectations of what artistic directors could do. But that is what happen…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 09:34AM[SHARE]"The official ruling ... gives embiggen the long-overdue recognition it deserves for being both an incredibly useful word and one of the greatest things to come out of The Simpsons. Though e…
SOURCE: io9.gizmodo.com at 09:18AM[SHARE]"Sexual harassment, various instances of discrimination and retaliation are among the top complaints, according to these employees. They describe supervisors who are inept at scheduling, a w…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:03AM[SHARE]"[The MacArthur Fellow] will create three works for American Ballet Theater dancers, starting with a pièce d'occasion for Ballet Theater's spring gala on May 21. The new works, announced on…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:47AM[SHARE]"Helen Molesworth, the chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art whose exhibitions have included the critically acclaimed 2017 Kerry James Marshall retrospective that was also a rare p…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:32AM[SHARE]"MarÃa Inés RodrÃguez, the director of the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, was called into a town hall meeting last Tuesday, March 6, during which she was informed that her art…
SOURCE: news.artnet.com at 08:16AM[SHARE]"The Ivey Awards have been celebrating theatre in the Twin Cities for the past 13 years. But on Feb. 28, the organization announced that it will discontinue producing the annual awards event…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:01AM[SHARE]"The image of Stephen Hawking ... in his motorised wheelchair, with head contorted slightly to one side and hands crossed over to work the controls, caught the public imagination, as a true …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AM[SHARE]The JCB Prize for Literature will recognize (the jury's choice of) the best work of fiction by an Indian author either written in or translated into English from an Indian language. The winn…
SOURCE: scroll.in at 07:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 13, 2018
"We are in an interesting cultural moment in the United States as I write this; scandals about the abuse of power through sexual manipulation and assault proliferate in social media. ... #Me…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:34PM[SHARE]More than six years after the right-wing extremist set off a car bomb in Oslo that killed eight people and shot 69 more to death at a summer youth camp, "[Erik] Poppe, one of Norway's best-k…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:04PM[SHARE]The website, which makes literary works in the public domain available free of charge to users anywhere, was sued by a German publisher for offering books by Thomas Mann, whose works are out…
SOURCE: www.techdirt.com at 01:03PM[SHARE]"At the end of 2017, US hip-hop star Nelly played a men-only concert in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; US country singer Toby Keith headlined a similar gig earlier in the year. These shows were flagg…
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 12:02PM[SHARE]"The Civil War memorial secretary was widely embraced as a folk art treasure. Fashioned from walnut, maple and oak, it was said to have been created circa 1876 to honor John Bingham, a Union…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:32AM[SHARE]"Working largely out of the artistic limelight at her home in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., Ms. Stein resurrected historical weaving techniques and merged them with 20th-century Bauhaus design sen…
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