“When the Hudson Theater reopens on Saturday, Feb. 11 – with Jake Gyllenhaal adding star power to the revival of Sunday in the Park With George – it becomes Broadway’s 41st and newest playhouse, 114 years after it became one of Broadway’s first. (It opened with a production of Cousin Kate starring Ethel Barrymore.)” Erik Piepenburg offers a history of the house, with photos.
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Revolving Auditorium To Be Part Of New Creative District In Liverpool
The theatre and music venue would be the first in Britain (and only the third in the world) with a rotating seating area in the center of the hall and stages/performing spaces against the walls. The hall is part of the proposed Ten Streets creative district, plans for which have just been revealed.
Fired Director Of Shakespeare’s Globe Talks About Her Sacking – And Why She’s Still There
The board of the replica 16th-century theatre in London decided to replace Emma Rice last November, just a year into her initial two-year contract. Yet she’s still on the job, and she’s just announced the details of this summer’s season, her last there – and she’s explained why she didn’t just walk away.
Uffizi Gallery In Florence Begins Long-Term Project To Show More Female Artists From History
The initiative, which begins next month with an exhibition devoted to Suor Plautilla Nelli (1523-87), the first known female painter in Florence, grew out of a conversation between Uffizi director Eike Schmidt and the Guerrilla Girls.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.02.17
Resilience: The Spirit of 9/12
We remember the fear and uncertainty of 9/11. … But what do we remember of 9/12? What do we remember of the long and arduous process that commenced the next day – the effort to restore calm, order and clarity? How long did it take to achieve strategic thinking?… read more
AJBlog: Audience Wanted Published 2017-02-02
Classical music — the definition
My students – in my Juilliard course on classical music’s future – came up with a definition that I think works. … It’s in two parts. … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2017-02-02
More On That Revolutionary Art: Unscrolled
As I mentioned yesterday, the soon-to-open Museum of the American Revolution will hang a copy of Louis Charles-Auguste Couder’s Siege of Yorktown (1781). It hangs in the Hall of the Battles at Versailles. The copy, I’ve now learned, … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-02-01
The Conflation Index
When faced with stress or dramatic change in our environment, we humans have a tendency to conflate things in our thinking — to bundle two or more separate ideas or issues or observations into one. … read more
AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2017-02-01
What Exactly Does “Critical Thinking” Mean These Days?
These days, the term “critical thinking” has been overused to the point where it has almost ceased to mean anything in particular. It has become more of a popular educational catchphrase, so that even the people who use it often don’t know exactly what they mean by it.
Former Google Employee Explains How Smartphones Are Designed To Steal Your Attention
“For any company whose business model is advertising, or engagement-based advertising, meaning they care about the amount of time someone spends on the product, they make more money the more time people spend. These services are in competition with where we would want to spend our time, whether that’s our sleep or with our friends. There’s this war going on to get as much attention as possible.”
Payment Dispute Takes Univision Off The Air In Major US Markets
A Univision spokesman said Wednesday that customers in 37 markets, including New York and Los Angeles, home to large Hispanic communities, have lost access to Univision, the most popular Spanish-language network.
Fakes Are A Huge Problem In The Art World. The Trouble Is…
At the annual art-crime symposium held in November at New York University, participants agreed that the culprit was the market’s notorious secrecy. But discussions revealed deep divisions about what should be done. Insurers, auction houses, dealers and other players each have their own interests to protect in a market where, as one participant remarked, the “level of greed… is so great”.
The Little Country You’d Think Would Be Far From The World Of Art Crime (About 10,000 Miles Away) Has Lots Of It
“From stolen Italian masterpieces ending up on the walls of a provincial South Island gallery, to a steady supply of fake Dick Frizzells being sold online,” New Zealand has more than its fair share of forgeries and fraudsters.