“There are so many ways a person can be an artist, and we are aware of that,” Ms. Reisman said, “but if somebody doesn’t need the space and doesn’t have a consistent output of artwork, it’s hard for us to certify them.”
Tag: 01.20.14
Not A Lot Of Big Sales At Sundance This Year
This time around, buyers are largely reacting to films with appreciation as indie film fans and disappointment as business people.
What If Great Painting Were Animated?
“It is entertaining to see Judith actually chop off Holofernes’s head, but it misses the whole point of Caravaggio, who makes us contemplate one moment of moral choice for all eternity.”
Another Structure Collapses in a London Theatre
This time, fortunately, it was a set rather than a ceiling, and only four people were injured.
Broadway Cancels Shows To Avoid Competing With Super Bowl
“Of the 28 shows which will be running on Broadway at that point, 14 have cancelled performances on the February 2, eight have moved up their show times, three have no shows on Sunday and three are keeping their schedule as is.”
As Life For Gays In Africa Gets Worse, Kenyan Author Comes Out
Seeing the ever harsher laws against homosexuality being passed in Uganda, Nigeria and elsewhere, Binyavanga Wainaina thought about his own life in cosmopolitan Nairobi and decided that, as “part of a generation of people in Kenya and Africa who [want to] change [Africa] to be accountable to itself,” he had to go public.
These Architects Are Livening Up Bulgaria’s Capital
Delcho Delchev “is one of the founders of a nonprofit group called Transformers that has been trying since 2009 to brighten up this former Soviet outpost with low-budget civic art and design projects.”
Bolshoi Theater Names New (and Brave) Music Director
It’s a tough and dangerous job, but someone’s gotta do it, and the last one up and quit the job last month. That someone is now 36-year-old Tugan Sokhiev – who is, like a certain Valery Gergiev, a native Ossetian who trained in St. Petersburg.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.20.14
Simon Rattle on Claudio Abbado
Source: Slipped Disc | Published on 2014-01-20
‘The greatest conductor I have ever seen or heard’
Source: Slipped Disc | Published on 2014-01-20
Source: Slipped Disc | Published on 2014-01-20
The Folk Art Museum Mess And Modern Architecture
Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2014-01-21
Artistic homes? Excerpts from a recent talk …
Source: Jumper | Published on 2014-01-20
Source: Jumper | Published on 2014-01-20
Three by Three by Three
Source: Dancebeat | Published on 2014-01-20
Source: Dancebeat | Published on 2014-01-20
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Conductor Claudio Abbado Dies At 80
“In a career that began in the late 1950s, Mr. Abbado was known for the directness and musicality of his performances. He almost always conducted from memory, insisting that using the score meant that he did not know the work adequately.”