Producer Karim Amer: “You’re entering a space where the dust hasn’t settled in a time when certain groups are trying to rewrite history.”
Tag: 02.06.14
Oprah Plans Her Broadway Debut
“Oprah Winfrey is in talks to make her Broadway debut in a revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play ‘night, Mother, starring opposite Tony-Award winner Audra McDonald as a mother struggling to stop her daughter from killing herself.”
Behind the Scenes With the Paris Opera Ballet in Dubai
“Karl Paquette collapses in a heap, stage left. … His dance partner, the première danseuse Valentine Colasante, stands a little way away, chest heaving, hands on thighs, as their instructor, or ‘balletmaster’, Laurent Novis talks them through their performance.”
German Museum Cancels Balthus Show Over Pedophilia Worries
“The Museum Folkwang in Essen has cancelled a planned exhibition of Polaroids by the French-Polish artist Balthus featuring a model called Anna who posed for him from the age of eight to 16. The museum … decided not to stage the show because it ‘could lead to unwanted legal consequences and the closure of the exhibition’.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.06.14
Detroit Detritus: Critics of Detroit Institute’s “Grand Bargain” Dig for Dirt (and u…
Source: CultureGrrl | Published on 2014-02-06
Dürer Vs. Rembrandt Vs. Cranach Vs…
Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2014-02-07
Are the Arts Only For the Rich?
Source: CultureCrash | Published on 2014-02-06
Fostering critical response to complex experience
Source: The Artful Manager | Published on 2014-02-06
Museum Secrets: Instructive Audit In St. Louis
Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2014-02-06
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Something You Should Know: America’s Public Libraries Are Wildly Popular
“Public libraries circulated 2.46 billion materials last year, the greatest volume in 10 years. Over this same period, the circulation of children’s book and materials increased by more than 28 percent. Attendance at library-hosted programs for kids hit 60.5 million in 2013.”
When The Real Philomena Met The Pope (It Happened Yesterday)
“The Holy Father does not see films, and will not be seeing this one. It is also important to avoid using the Pope as part of a marketing strategy.”
Mamoru Samuragochi’s “Ghost” Composer Questions Whether He Is Deaf
“His ghost composer, Takashi Niigaki, said he provided music for Samuragochi for 18 years and questioned if he was hearing impaired.”
Asia’s Rise As An Opera Superpower
Some 50 new opera houses have been completed or are near completion, and many more are planned. “Chinese people love foreign music, but in the past we couldn’t listen to it.”
A Warning About What Funding Cuts Will Do To UK Theatre Community
“The theatre world will slowly become smaller and smaller, and populated by the same people, who are the sons and daughters of the same people, because nobody else can afford to do it.”