“The use of books and movies in teaching is growing in part because fictional characters obviously aren’t protective of their privacy the way real patients can be. … What’s more, with fiction, students can experience a much wider range of disorders than they may ever encounter in real life.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
So As Not To Perish With Valhalla, Met Reinforces Its Stage
In anticipation of Robert Lepage’s 45-ton “Ring” set, the Metropolitan Opera “had a steel company install three 65-foot girders under the stage, a feat of delicate engineering involving thousands of pounds of steel that counts as a permanent structural change to the opera house, the most extensive work yet to prepare for a new production there.”
Streb’s Stunning Feat: Taming A NY Real Estate Developer
“Douglas Steiner, one developer struggling to sell units in the vastly overbuilt Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg, is betting it pays to keep artists in the neighborhood even after wealthier buyers move in. He is hoping the deal he struck with the choreographer Elizabeth Streb will help the sales of his $1 million-plus town homes and apartments.”
What The USSR’s ’60s Generation Of Poets Taught Us
“Against all the odds and expectations, it was the poets, like [Andrei] Voznesensky, who turned out to have had things right during the long and bitterly dark Cold War years, when many argued that accommodation to totalitarianism was the only realistic course.”
Big Ambitions For One Of Smithsonian’s Smallest Museums
“An anthropologist by training, [Johnnetta Betsch] Cole had little experience with the museum world. Instead, she has a track record of turning around educational institutions. Even so, no one is surprised by the bold steps Cole has taken, even in times of financial struggle at an underrated institution,” the National Museum of African Art.
Why Doesn’t NYU Learn From Its Architectural Mistakes?
“As NYU has grown from a local college to a globally known research and teaching powerhouse, the Village has struggled to survive the university’s strikingly tin ear for history and architecture. NYU seems to forget that the youthful urban vitality and diversity of the Village and its surrounding neighborhoods are central to its appeal.”
Calif. Assembly OKs Letting Students Skip Arts Education
“If the bill, AB 2446, passes the state Senate and is signed into law by the governor, students, starting in the 2011-12 school year, will be able to substitute a ‘career technical education’ course for arts or a language.”
Cincinnati Ballet Dancer Gets His Visa Renewed
“The Immigration Service had delayed visa renewal and has asked for specific evidence that [Liang] Fu has achieved ‘distinction’ through a high level of achievement in his field, substantially above that ordinarily encountered, and an explanation of why an American dancer could not bring the same ability to the stage as Fu.”
Theatre In Flux As It Plunges Into The Digital Age
“Where the National has been thinking big,” with live broadcasts, “the Royal Shakespeare Company has been – equally adventurously – thinking small, exploiting the bite-sized power of Twitter to retell the story of Romeo and Juliet.” Other companies have been engaging with technology in even more creative ways.
Book Excerpt: FBI Art Crime Team Founder Looks Back
“My career in art crime had begun the first month I reported for duty in Philadelphia, when the sculpture that inspired the Impressionist movement was stolen from the Rodin Museum on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.” Then came “a spot in a coveted year-long art history class at the Barnes Foundation in Merion. Some 42 art-crime investigations would follow….”