Tag: 02.20.18

Ballet Idaho’s New Artistic Director: Garrett Anderson

“Anderson may be a familiar face to Boise dance devotees, having performed in the past with the Trey McIntyre Project and local dance nonprofit LED. In addition … [he has] chaired the Dance Department at New Mexico School for the Arts and has danced with the Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet Chicago and the Belgium-based Royal Ballet of Flanders, among others. He will take up the post of artistic director in July.”

Indianapolis Symphony Hires New CEO

“James M. Johnson, who will begin his term April 30, comes from the Omaha Symphony Association, where he is the president and CEO. … Before Omaha, Johnson spent a decade as CEO of the New York Pops, director of operations for the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and general manager of the Martha Graham Dance Company.”

A Sort Of Anti-Exhibition, By Maverick New Museum Director In Rome

“Hackles were raised in Rome’s art establishment in December at the announcement of a new artistic director for the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma (Macro).” The choice was artist and anthropologist Giorgio de Finis, whom one newspaper dubbed “the squatter director.” His upcoming show “will transform the museum into an ‘open laboratory’ where ‘there will be no exhibitions’, he says, as ‘the daily activity of the museum itself will be on show’. Artists will be invited to transfer their studio practice to Macro, while major international figures and scholars from varied disciplines will deliver lectures and talks. Meanwhile, the permanent collection will be densely installed ‘like the Hermitage.'”

New Museum District Rising In Shanghai, Across The River From The Current One

“A raft of state-owned museums is rising along the East Bund riverside in the Pudong New Area of eastern Shanghai. Details have yet to be formally announced, but projects due for completion in 2020 include the Pudong Art Museum, the Shanghai Museum East, the Shanghai Library East and the Pudong Urban Planning and Art Centre. The towering 80,000 Ton Silo on the Huangpu River opened as an exhibition venue after refurbishment last October.”

If Tech Changes Where We Live, How Do The Arts Follow?

“If there is a population shift away from cities towards less developed suburban and rural areas, there may need to be a shift in audience development strategies.  Fewer people who can easily commute to a performance or exhibition, will necessitate the need for finding new ways to attract and entice both those possibly smaller subsets remaining in a defined area, and those growing cohorts no longer in the area.  We have already witnessed the negative effects of intolerable commute situation on the willingness of some consumers to brave the traffic to attend events even relatively near their homes or workplaces.”

‘I’m A Pretty Antisocial Socialist’: Glenda Jackson Talks To Ben Brantley About Her Return To The Stage From Politics

“Appearing before a live audience again, she says she felt no more nervous than she had before any performance from decades earlier – which is to say, she was terrified. ‘You can go onto that stage every night, and it’s always the equivalent of going onto the topmost diving board, and you don’t know if there’s any water in the pool. Every time I say, ‘Yes, I’ll do it,’ I think, ‘My God I don’t know how to do it. I can’t do it.’ We are sadomasochists as well as being brave, actors, and we torment ourselves.'”

France And The Roots Of Nationalism

If French revolutionaries questioned the sovereign authority of their king within their borders, they also implicitly undermined the claim of any monarch to the territory within theirs. No longer should a country be passed down as property, within a family, much less won or lost in war. Just as the people were becoming the final arbiter of political decisions within France, so too, this new logic implied, the people ought to determine the title and status of the territory where they lived.