Leading telenovela star Pablo Azar, who led the campaign to join SAG-AFTRA: “Sometimes you shoot 40 scenes in one single day. So it’s very demanding. … Usually you have better conditions in the US than in countries like Mexico, Colombia. But funny enough, for actors it’s backwards. Actors have better working conditions in Mexico than they have here in Miami. At least, I’m talking about Hispanic actors.”
Tag: 01.05.18
SF Ballet Star James Sofranko Named Artistic Director Of Grand Rapids Ballet
The 38-year-old dancer, who has been with San Francisco Ballet for 18 years and founded and directs the contemporary company SFDanceworks, succeeds Patricia Barker, now at the Royal New Zealand Ballet.
Study: Skill At Playing A Musical Instrument Is A Romantic Turn-on
So was musical skill sexy? The results suggest the answer is, in general, yes. “Mate value ratings were generally increased by music performance quality by raters of both sexes,” reports the research team led by psychologist Guy Madison of Umea University.
Study: The Value Of Work By Artists Who Are Depressed Goes Down
By looking at sale and auction price between 1972 to 2014, the authors of the study found that paintings created in the year following the death of a friend or relative saw a decrease in value of about 35% compared to the rest of the artist’s catalog.
At 86, Looking Back At A Lifelong Career As A Struggling Artist
Over the years there were some exhibitions and acquisitions, notably a 140-work retrospective in 1997 of both his commercial and fine art in Basel, Switzerland, where Mr. Bertschmann was born and raised. But these accomplishments never amounted to a self-sustaining fine art career. As he reached his 80s, humility and obscurity started getting old, and costly. Now the Bertschmanns find themselves in a tenuous financial position.
Scanner And New Software Looks Inside An Ancient Charred Bible That Is Too Fragile To Open
Dr. Brent Seales has spent 14 years developing a technique for reading ancient scrolls that are too fragile to unwrap. Fine-detail CT scanners can visualize the ink of letters inside such scrolls, but the alphabet soup is unreadable unless each letter can be assigned to its correct position on a surface. Dr. Seales has developed software that can model the surface of a contorted piece of papyrus or parchment from X-ray data and then derive a legible text by assigning letters to their proper surface.
In These Days Of #MeToo, Some Classic Musicals Have Some Awfully Uncomfortable Moments
“Reviving the hallmarks of our musical theater heritage is such a widespread practice on the American stage that the mores of bygone ages are going to be dredged up and played out, for some spectators who remember, maybe even cherish the originals – and others who are going to wonder: What the heck were these authors thinking?” Peter Marks considers some examples.
The New York Times Has A New Culture Editor
Gilbert Cruz came to the newspaper three years ago as television editor; previously, he worked at Vulture, New York magazine’s culture website, where he worked his way up to editorial director.
French Publisher Plans To Reissue Céline’s Anti-Semitic Tracts; Outrage Ensues
“French publishing house Gallimard has insisted it will go ahead with the publication of the 1,000-page collection of 1930s pamphlets by Céline, who called for the extermination of Jews. The publication date is not set but Gallimard has insisted its intention is to frame the texts ‘and put them back in their context as writings of a great violence, marked by the antisemitic hatred of the author’. … A furious row has raged in literary circles between those for and against publication.”
Books As Dinner Party Guests? One Bookstore Finds A New Market
A bookstore on Long Island will choose books for your dinner party guests based on what the hosts tell them. “It’s a conversation starter if you are sitting next to someone you don’t know. You can talk about books, talk about why you think that book was chosen for you or books you love instead of having an awkward moment.”