“The virtually nonexistent relations between the United States and Iran extend to their copyright relations. While many countries have agreed to international standards such as the Berne Convention, which affords foreign artists the same copyright protections countries offer to their own artists, Iran has not. And this is how the Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui – one of the premier auteurs of Iran’s New Wave cinema – seized the opportunity that no Western filmmaker could. In 1995, Mehrjui released his film Pari, a composite of Franny and Zooey and ‘A Perfect Day for Bananafish,’ from Salinger’s Nine Stories.”
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Who Will Be The Dallas Symphony’s Next Music Director? Let’s Speculate …
Scott Cantrell: “So who are the leading candidates? Don’t take my word as gospel, but, between personal observations and chats with musicians, I can hazard some guesses. At least on purely musical grounds, I’m guessing there are two leading candidates, although each has drawbacks.”
Quebec Gives Millions In Extra Funding To Province’s Three Main Orchestras
“[The Montreal Symphony will] receive a supplemental grant of $7.5 million over five years in addition to the $8.8 million it gets annually from the province … The Orchestre Métropolitain [du Grand Montréal] can look forward to an extra $2.5 million over five years – one-third of the money awarded to the OSM, but a formidable sum if viewed as a proportion of its modest budget of about $5 million … The Orchestre symphonique de Québec will get $3 million.”
Robert Buck, 79, Former Director Of Brooklyn Museum, Knox-Albright
Mr. Buck, who died March 30 at 79 after a battle with cancer, was an instrumental figure in Buffalo’s visual arts scene, both at the gallery and in the community. His decade-long stint as director at the Albright-Knox was defined by a bookish enthusiasm for the work of contemporary American artists and an involvement in Buffalo’s burgeoning avant garde art scene that set a precedent for future directors.
What Happens When Tony Winners Gather For A Religious Ceremony?
Well, they try to “modernize” it, for one thing. And the design! The Passover celebration – on a Monday, natch, when theatres are dark – “took place in a large downtown apartment in a prewar building, decorated with billowing scarves, bright pillows and hanging palm branches to replicate a Bedouin tent. The usual holiday prayers and songs, which commemorate the biblical exodus of Jews from slavery, were replaced by a high-caliber revue of poetic and musical performances from stars of some of the biggest current Broadway shows, including ‘Hamilton,’ ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ and ‘Frozen.'”
Restoring A Landmark In Los Angeles (And Heading Toward A Museum’s Future)
The details of the Academy of Motion Pictures’ restoration of the old May Company building, now the Saban building, are pretty cool: “Taking apart the steel windows uncovered a bit of architectural archeology. The original depression-era workers dumped plaster, wood, and construction debris inside the walls, and the windows were made watertight with sisal rope, a technique Fidler recognized from ships and buildings of the 18th century.”
What’s Up With The Casual Colonialism Of Major Movies?
Are Indiana Jones and Lara Croft really meant to inspire kids to go into archaeology? “Although the character of Indiana Jones arguably raised the profile of archaeology as a whole, and Lara Croft could inspire young women to go into the field, both figures have little regard for the cultures whose histories they collect.”
Now What? Data Show UK Theatre Companies’ Gender Pay Gap
In total, 44 companies working in the performing arts reported the difference between men and women’s salaries, with a median hourly pay gap of 7% in favour of male employees. This means when comparing median hourly rates, women are paid 93p for every £1 paid to men. The median pay difference of the total 10,015 firms that published their figures was 9.7%, meaning arts companies came out more favourably than the average. The national median is 18.4%.
Journalism’s “Revolutionize This” Problem
Google tells me that between 2000 and 2010, could revolutionize appeared on indexable websites fewer than fourteen thousand times. Since then, it’s seen what venture capitalists might call hockey-stick growth, increasing from six thousand instances in 2011 to thirteen thousand in 2014 to thirty thousand in 2017. Four months into 2018, could revolutionize has appeared on the internet nearly twenty thousand times. It’s possible that the sharp spike in popularity of could revolutionize mirrors Silicon Valley’s ascension in our collective consciousness. But which is the chicken, and which is the egg?
How An Old Jewish Lullaby Turned Into The Anthem Of The Great Depression
The story of “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” and its creators, Jay Gorney and E.Y. “Yip” Harburg.