“This is an astonishing feat for a decade and a half old franchise that launched as a marginalized car culture movie with no stars and no imaginings of a long-term franchise future.”
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Kara Walker – A Whole New Approach To Public Art?
“Now 47, and a new kind of public figure thanks to the Sugar Baby, Walker remains suspicious of herself, and of the world, however much it has come to celebrate her, expressing to me the bewilderment of a thinker for whom no level of success can stamp out a phobia of personal self-satisfaction — or, worse, infidelity to craft.”
Deconstructing The Met’s Many Woes
As Thomas Campbell begins his exit, the museum resets: “The wing will wait while the museum conducts long-needed repairs. Exhibitions will be cut back by as much as a quarter. And just as crucially, the Met is revamping its money-losing gift shop — because, as it turns out, America’s greatest storehouse of treasures can’t balance its budget without selling nicer scarves.”
Altadena Has A Revamped Bunny Museum, But Is It Great Or Creepy (Or Both)?
It’s all due to a love story, the Guinness Book of World Records, and a move from Pasadena in order to accommodate all of the bunnies – and to open the “Chamber of Hop Horrors, a room that only visitors 13 and older may enter.”
What To Do With All Of Those Old Slides? Well, Here’s What The Met Did
As any art historian from the pre-internet era would know, the Metropolitan Museum had thousands – and thousands and thousands – of slides it loaned out to teachers and professors for lectures. But the entire collection of slides was digitized, and the museum didn’t need them any longer. So, they found a new home.
Deconstructing That Last Episode Of ‘Girls’ With Lena Dunham And The Show’s Director
Few shows have earned more ink of fascination and fury during their runs. “In addition to a magnificent deployment of Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car,’ the episode (which is discussed further in this critical dialogue) offers up a glimpse of what growing up might look like for these characters.” [If you’re the kind of person who cares about Girls but didn’t have time to watch it, fair warning: The article contains many spoilers.]
The Racecar Driver Who Became A Ballet Dancer [VIDEO]
Sophie is one of the first transgender students to sit the Royal Academy of Dance exam.
The Pilot At The Center Of The Broadway Show ‘Come From Away’ Has Bonded With The Cast – And Seen The Show 61 Times
That is one devoted audience member: “Using her free-flying privileges as a now-retired pilot, [Beverley Bass] has followed the musical’s developmental journey from La Jolla to Seattle to Washington to Gander to Toronto to New York, often with other female pilots in tow. Ms. Bass is both watching the show and reliving the events, clutching her husband’s hand as the emotions return.”
Renée Fleming Isn’t Retiring; She’s Going To Star In ‘Carousel’
Take a Tony winner, a guy touring in “Hamilton,” and Renée Fleming, and what do you get? A revival of “Carousel,” of course.
How Deeply Depressed Lisbon Found Its Way Back To Hope
Things have changed dramatically in just a few years – and in several decades. “For the first time since the 1940s, when Lisbon was a refuge from the war, says Pestana, the city is ‘really cosmopolitan.'”