After Raeda Taha’s father was killed while hijacking a passenger plane in 1972, she was, in effect, adopted by Yasir Arafat and later worked as his press secretary. In Where Can I Find Someone Like You, Ali, Taha looks at the human costs of the conflict, especially those that Palestinians like her father exact on their families.
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Amazon.com To Be London’s Theatre Ticket-Seller
A spokesman for Amazon said that, up until this week, the retailer’s theatre ticket offering had been based around “deals” and discounted tickets. “Although that will still be the case for some shows, this is a move to being a genuine ticketer. We are moving away from deals to offering the full range of ticket prices, from bottom to full price.”
Barcelona’s Museum of Contemporary Art Loses Its Director In Censorship Row
“The director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona (Macba), Bartomeu Marí, has resigned in light of a censorship row over a controversial installation on display at the museum, which shows the former Spanish king in a sexual act with a dog.”
Behind The Scenes Of America’s Top Opera Competition
“The prizes—$15,000 checks to as many as five winners and $5,000 checks to the remaining finalists—would come in handy. But the recognition would be priceless.”
For Love Or Duty: The Complicated Motivations Behind Teaching Reading
How did it come to be, Lynch asks, that “those of us for whom English is a line of work are also called upon to love literature and to ensure that others do so, too”?
Peter Zumthor’s Plan For LACMA Has Been Thoroughly Changed (No More Blob!)
“Once a free-flowing, biomorphic design inspired by the La Brea Tar Pits and the work of the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, the design has become noticeably more angular and muscular in recent weeks.” Says LACMA director Michael Govan, “No one will call it a blob anymore. Peter hasn’t given up the curve. But he’s really, really reined it in.”
How “Pretty Woman” Revived Romantic Comedies
“[The film], released 25 years ago today, remains one of the most popular movies, and also the highest-grossing romantic comedy, of all time. It revived the languishing career of Richard Gere; it catapulted Julia Roberts to mega-stardom. … It is also, along with When Harry Met Sally, generally credited with reviving the romantic comedy as a genre.
Cabaret Full Of Immigrants, Breastfeeding Moms, Godless Left-Wingers, Gypsies And A Gay Donkey Hits Local Pub Of Britain’s Top Radical-Right Politician
Nigel Farage is leader of the UK Independence Party, a nationalist group that wants to curb immigration and take Britain out of the EU. Dan Glass took his Beyond UKIP cabaret to Farage’s hometown and briefly confronted him on the street – and it hit the news. Here’s a report from the one journalist who was there.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.23.15
Dynamic pricing and market segmentation at the theatre (and the hospital)
AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2015-03-23
Keep Talking About What Art Means
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-03-22
Crystal Bridges Reshuffles PostWar Galleries With 2014 Acquisitions
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-03-22
Spike Wilner On Playing For Listeners
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-03-23
An Arts Advocacy Conversation in Lynchburg, VA
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-03-23
An Arts Advocacy Conversation in Thayer, MO
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-03-23
An Arts Advocacy Day Conversation in Hartford, CT
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-03-23
An Arts Advocacy Conversation in Salt Lake City, UT
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-03-23
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Net Neutrality’s Final Frontier Takes Shape (Not So) Far Above The Earth
“A heavenly Internet is taking shape above our heads. In the same week this January, the spaceflight companies SpaceX and Virgin Galactic both announced plans for “megaconstellations” of low-Earth orbit, or LEO, satellites delivering broadband to every inch of the inhabited world.”