The survey found that New York City’s cultural work force is 61.8 percent white, 35.4 percent minority groups, and 53.1 percent female, while the city’s residents are 33 percent white and 52 percent female, according to the 2010 U.S. census.
Tag: 01.28.16
Art Institute Of Chicago Gets A New Director
James Rondeau, the highly regarded chair of the museum’s department of modern and contemporary art, will take over as president and Eloise W. Martin director Feb. 16, after a Thursday morning vote affirming his appointment by the institution’s board.
What Jaap Van Zweden Did In Dallas
The city’s arts community has entered “its 2.0 phase,” says Catherine Cuellar, an official at the Communities Foundation of Texas and former CEO of the Dallas Arts District. The arrival of such energetic figures as van Zweden, 55, credited with transforming the Dallas orchestra into one of the best in the country, and Anderson, 59, who devised ambitious programming and reinstated free general admission at the DMA, proves the arts community has turned a corner, Cuellar said.
Wooster Group Project Runs Aground In LA After Pinter Estate Says Critics Can’t Review It
The highly anticipated new production of Harold Pinter’s “The Room” by The Wooster Group has run into difficulties after the licensing company for the play said that critics may not review the show when it has its world premiere in Los Angeles next month.
Robert Tuggle, 83, Longtime Archivist Of The Metropolitan Opera
In his 34 years in the position, he oversaw the creation of an exhaustive database of the opera house’s entire performance history, “replacing record books and rows of index cards in a windowless subbasement office of the opera house adjoining a storeroom that houses rare documents and costumes. Mr. Tuggle persuaded the Met to make this encyclopedic database available free of charge.”
Alex Ross On Pierre Boulez: A Force For Music
“Boulez fought harder than anyone for the cause of contemporary music, and even those who received his barbs benefitted in one way or another from his energy. No composer of the past hundred years achieved such worldly power: in Paris, IRCAM, the Cité de la Musique, and the new Philharmonie stand as his monuments. In more than one way, he resembled Wagner. He forced you to take sides; his rage was clarifying.”