“What strikes anyone who has seriously studied Hickey’s essays is the incompatibility of his ideas about beauty with an art world, and an art-education establishment, absorbed in abstract theory.”
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Race Is On To Beat Pirated Architecture In China
“It is possible that the Chongqing pirates got hold of some digital files or renderings of the project.”
California Newspaper Bucks Trend And Expands
“It feels like a throwback to an earlier era at the Orange County Register, where a first-time newspaper owner is defying conventional wisdom by spending heavily to expand the printed edition and playing down digital formats.”
Women Authors Sweep All Five Categories In Costa Awards
“Mary Talbot’s Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, which was illustrated by her husband Bryan, a veteran of the comic genre, won biography of the year while Hilary Mantel won the novel award for Bring Up the Bodies; Francesca Segal won first novel for The Innocents; Kathleen Jamie’s The Overhaul came first in poetry, and Sally Gardner’s Maggot Moon was named children’s book of the year.
Ugandan Court Throws Out Case Against Director Of Gay Play
“A Ugandan court has dismissed the case against a British theatre producer who faced two years in jail for staging a play about homosexuality. David Cecil was charged with ‘disobeying lawful orders’ from Uganda’s media council after performances of the play went ahead despite intervention from the regulators.”
ABT Announces Dancer Exchange
“American Ballet Theater and two European dance companies are engaging in a little trans-oceanic swapping” – with Britain’s Royal Ballet and the Royal Danish Ballet.
New York Times Culture Editor To Step Down
Jonathan Landman, 60, wrote in an e-mail to colleagues, “We all know that the newsroom has to reduce its costs. No less urgent is its responsibility to cultivate a new generation of leaders. My continued presence would help accomplish neither. So it’s time to go.”
Beate Sirota Gordon, 89, Impresario Of Asian Arts In America
While she is most revered for having seen to it that women’s rights were included in Japan’s postwar constitution, she was “one of the first people to bring traditional Asian performing arts to audiences throughout North America” – first at the Japan Society and then, for 20 years, at the Asia Society.
Ill-Starred Rebecca May Make It To Broadway In 2013
“The New York producer of the scandal-plagued musical Rebecca said on Wednesday that he would try to open the show later this year on Broadway, where a planned production fell apart this fall when several investors were revealed to be concoctions of a rainmaking middleman.”
The Artists Who Died In 2012, A List
“The obituaries of some of the most-celebrated and greatly-missed artists, musicians, writers and filmmakers who died in 2012.”