“Among high earners – with salaries of more than £60,000 – male executives earn an average of £114,000 compared with £85,000 for their female counterparts. Findings also show that artistic and executive directors at top publicly funded theatres earn a median salary of £75,000.”
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Imre Kertész, Nobel-Winning Author, Dead At 86
“As a Jew persecuted by the Nazis, and then a writer living under repressive Hungarian communist rule, Kertész endured some of the most acute suffering of the 20th century and wrote about it in both direct and delicate prose.”
Why Does The Met Opera Keep Rehiring Famous, Lackluster Stage Directors?
David McVicar. Bartlett Sher. Mary Zimmerman. Richard Eyre. Each of them, argues James Jorden, began their work at the Met with one (more or less) good production and then followed with productions that ranged from dull to disastrous. Why does Peter Gelb continue to engage them?
Pretentiousness – What If It’s Really Authenticity That Someone Else Doesn’t Like?
“Authenticity is overrated – give me a perfectly struck pose. (That may be what authenticity is, anyway.) But everyone has things that set them off, and whatever we dislike we might choose to call pretentious. It’s not a stable category of behavior, really, so much as a versatile put-down, meaning, ‘I don’t like what you’re trying to do, and besides, you’re not pulling it off.'”
Galileo Was Totally Overrated
“In the popular presentations of the history of science, he is portrayed as a one-man revolution, an intellectual superhero who dragged science kicking and screaming into the modern era. … The descriptions sound too good to be true – and they are.”
How Did April Fool’s Day Get Started?
“Ah, April. A month of cherry blossoms and light cardigans, birds twittering and taxes being filed. And, of course, peak harvest season for Switzerland’s world-famous spaghetti crop, which, thanks to an exceptionally mild winter, was experiencing a bumper year in 1957.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.31.16
Perfect Pairings: Frick Draws on Van Dyck’s Drawings to Illuminate His Portrait Paintings
It takes not only brains but also curatorial brawn (which powerful institutions are in the best position to exert) to wrest seldom loaned choice works from discerning, possessive lenders. One of the many joys … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-03-31
Producer’s April: George Martin, Sam Phillips
Jerry Lee Lewis’s mother to her son: “You and Elvis are good, son — but you’re no Chuck Berry. Chuck Berry is rock ’n’ roll from his head to his toes.” … read more
AJBlog: blog riley Published 2016-03-31
Classical Pop Art
“… while the overall style of each fine artwork is maintained, eisen bernard bernardo’s mash-ups create quirky unions of contemporary and classical imagery.” Here’s Milo Miles talking with Robin Young. … read more
AJBlog: blog riley Published 2016-03-31
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Amazon Has Become A Media Giant (And With Video, That’s Only The Start)
“What seemingly started as a way to get people to sign up for two-day shipping has turned into a major force in the world of entertainment. Prime Video may have started as a perk to draw in more Prime members. Now, it’s just as easy to believe that Prime Video may be its own draw, and two-day shipping a nice perk. For $99 a year—cheaper than a year of Netflix, which doesn’t ship anything other than DVDs.”
How American Colleges Became Commercial Hucksters Vying For Customers
“Few would argue that the rankings have helped shape a world in which students are seen as consumers, and colleges and universities as commodities. The rankings are a key reason the higher-education landscape today operates like a marketplace in which institutions compete to convince the best students to buy their product.”
Architect Zaha Hadid Dies Suddenly At 65
Ms. Hadid “contracted bronchitis earlier this week and suffered a sudden heart attack while being treated in hospital,” her office, Zaha Hadid Architects in London, said in a statement.