Michael Govan of LACMA, about the Pacific Standard Time art festival opening in the fall, known as PST LA/LA (one of the LAs is for Latin America): “We have so much to do to make everyone understand how connected our cultures are — how connected we are. … There is no us and them. There is just us and us.”
Tag: 02.10.17
If Big Names Skip Them, Are The Grammys Irrelevant?
As Drake, Kanye West, Justin Bieber and Frank Ocean sit them out, “this year’s Grammys promise to draw out only more skepticism of the long-standing ceremony.” Maybe the awards have aged themselves out.
Last Year’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Gives Us A Reading List
Viet Thanh Nguyen, who won for “The Sympathizer,” says that “Sometimes people have said that I give voice to the voiceless Vietnamese. If you know anything about Vietnamese people, you know they are not voiceless. They are quite loud, whether it is in Vietnamese or English. Here is a reading list of some of the most important writing by Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americans, just to prove that we have not been voiceless. Most of the time we are just not heard.”
Two More Dancers Leave Pennsylvania Ballet
Hired to run the ballet school after the previous staff member quit over the firings of a huge number of dancers, a married couple quits. “The couple, graduates of Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet Academy, had danced in Russia and the United States before opening a dance school, the Academy of International Ballet, in Media. Their son, Aleksey Babayev, is a Pennsylvania Ballet corps de ballet dancer.”
Just How Far Will British Actors At The BAFTAs Go About Trump?
The show is edited for length and then broadcast “two hours after the ceremony takes place – but the programme-makers [will] do their best to reflect the essence of any speeches made. ‘This is not a political event,’ the spokesperson said. ‘Actors and actresses have a right to air their views. It’s our duty to reflect their views.'”
Mr. Darcy Is Hot, Full Stop (And Austen Researchers Who Say Otherwise Can Sit Back Down Now)
Some Austen scholars say that the standard for male beauty has changes since Pride and Prejudice was first in front of a reading public. “I mean, we all know that Austen wasn’t actually thinking of Colin Firth when she wrote the book.”
The Top-Selling Pop Musician Of 2016
“The Canadian star achieved millions of sales and billions of streams with his fourth album, Views, which topped the charts around the world. He managed to beat Adele and Coldplay, who also achieved big sales last year.”
Even As Streaming Becomes Easy And Popular, Piracy ContinuesAnd Hollywood Is Prosecuting
“Pirate content is back in the news with a court case by the Motion Picture Association, which represents Disney, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios and Warner Bros, against nine Irish internet service providers or ISPs.”
Limited-Run Musicals On Broadway: A New Business Model?
Limited-run plays have become standard on Broadway these days, but musicals tend to keep their runs open-ended for as long as the tourists keep coming. So it’s unusual that there are two limited-run musicals on Broadway right now (Sunset Boulevard and Sunday in the Park With George), following another (Falsettos) earlier in the season. Howard Sherman looks at why this phenomenon has developed and whether it can work financially.
Could A New Box Set Redeem 20th-Century Opera’s Grandest Flop?
Critics the world over flocked to New York in 1966 for the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center – and they hated the piece composed for the occasion, Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra. The work’s reputation never recovered (and neither, in truth, did Barber himself). But after listening to a radio broadcast of the original production, recently released by the Met as part of a box set, David Patrick Stearns says that “Barber’s fall from grace is confounding” and that, 50 years on, Antony and Cleopatra deserves a reassessment.