The controversial comedian and 30 Rock co-star earned catcalls and walkouts from audience members, harsh notices from reviewers, and demands for refunds and boycotts – all for a routine at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival that even regular comedy fans are calling hateful, misogynistic and unfunny.
Tag: 04.15.13
São Paulo Art Fair Seeks Designs For Museum That Won’t Be Built
“The Panorama da Arte Brasileira will pit itself against the very museum that is hosting it: the exhibition will comprise architectural proposals for a new home for the Museu de Arte Moderna, the building in Ibirapuera park that has been home to Panorama since it began 44 years ago.”
Sharon Olds Wins Poetry Pulitzer For Collection About Her Divorce
“The Pulitzer citation called Stag’s Leap ‘a book of unflinching poems on the author’s divorce that examine love, sorrow and the limits of self-knowledge’.”
Scanner Reveals Hidden Figure In Louvre Artwork
“Underneath the top painting of the folds of a man’s tunic, we saw an eye, a nose and then a mouth appear. We were seeing what likely was part of an ancient Roman fresco, thousands of years old.”
NYCity Opera Returns To Its Roots
“For its third production this season, the itinerant New York City Opera returned to New York City Center, where it was born as “the people’s opera” in 1944 and spent the first two decades of its life. The opera world has undergone major changes since then, and City Opera, still battling back from a near-death experience four years ago, continues to search for a distinctive contemporary identity, one that will attract sufficient audiences and donors to sustain it.”
Obama Budget Suggests Big Increase In Arts Funding
“President Obama’s budget proposal for the coming fiscal year would boost federal arts spending 10% above where it stands at the moment, lifting it to $1.58 billion for the 2013-14 budget year that begins Oct. 1 and more than compensating for cuts from the “budget sequestration” bill that went into effect last month.”
Hollywood’s Conflicted Feelings Towards Netflix
“Hollywood is Netflix’s biggest supplier of content. If Netflix is the enemy, then why is Hollywood more than happy to arm it?”
Nigeria’s Theatres Dwindle As Movie Popularity Soars
“Theatre attendance in Nigeria’s economic capital, Lagos, is dwindling as “Nollywood” – the country’s prolific film industry – surges in popularity.”
Can Digital Streaming Save The Music Industry? Look At Sweden
“Some 91% of digital income in Sweden now comes from streaming sites, compared with just 13% worldwide. The services were the main force behind the Swedish music market’s 13.8% growth last year, marking a return to a level last seen in 2005, according to the industry body the IFPI.”
Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son Wins Pulitzer For Fiction
“The Pulitzer Prize in fiction, announced Monday, has been awarded to Adam Johnson for his book set in North Korea, The Orphan Master’s Son. … Sharon Olds won the poetry award for her collection Stag’s Leap.”