“Bond insurer Syncora is seeking a broad swath of documents, including century-old records detailing the museum’s transfer to city ownership and documents specifying donor restrictions on all of the museum’s 66,000 works.”
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Lorenzo Semple Jr., Creator of TV’s ‘Batman’, Dead at 91 (Kapow!)
This obituary would be about the man who wrote the scripts for Papillon, The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor and the like – if he hadn’t seen “the absurdity in the character of a wealthy bachelor who enjoyed dressing up as a bat to fight crime.”
New York State Approves Tax Breaks for Live Theater Investors
The 25% tax rebate (up to $4 million) “will be granted to shows that ‘tech’ in the state before they embark on a national tour.”
Stephen Colbert Sees Off #CancelColbert As Only He Can
“The #CancelColbert push didn’t pick up steam until last Thursday, after Stephen Colbert had taped his final show of the week. That means we had to wait for what seemed like forever for the comedian to respond. It was, of course, worth the wait.” (includes video)
How Stand-Up Comedy Was Born
“Charles Dickens thought Americans weren’t very funny. ‘They certainly are not a humorous people,’ he wrote in 1868, ‘and their temperament always impressed me as being of a dull and gloomy character.'” That was before burlesque and vaudeville …
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.01.14
Up and Coming Meet the Masters
AJBlog: Dancebeat | Published 2014-04-01
Stepping Up: Judith Dolkart Leaves Barnes Foundation for Addison Gallery Directorship
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-04-01
The Roots of “Noah,” and More on San Diego
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-04-01
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San Diego Opera Staves Off Its Own Execution (At Least For A While)
“Rather than close shop and begin selling assets on April 14, the day after its fourth and final production of “Don Quixote” closes at the Civic Theatre, the opera is giving itself two additional weeks to re-evaluate its financial condition, consider additional options and possibly find a way to go forward for at least another season.”
International Competition Launches To Design New Helsinki Guggenheim
“The architectural competition is being co-organised with the Finnish Association of Architects and has been partly sponsored by the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland. It also has the support of the City of Helsinki and the Finnish government.”
NEA: New Numbers On How Many Artists In America
“The federal agency reports that, in 2013, 2.1 million workers had, as their primary occupation, a job that fell into the “artist” category (including musician, writer, and designer). Another 271,000 or so reported their second job—the one where they put in fewer hours than their main job—fit that description.”
Study: People Fill In Visual Information That Isn’t There
New research “suggests that humans are equipped with ‘serially dependent’ visual perception, a process that uses prior stimuli and current information to construct the scene in front of us.”