By all accounts except the federal government’s, Ruben Van Kempen is a pillar of the community. For 37 years he taught theater in Seattle Public Schools, growing Roosevelt High’s drama program into one of the best in the country.
Tag: 05.03.17
Pundits Are Declaring The End Of ESPN. That’s Really Hard To Imagine
“Over the last decade, ESPN built perhaps the most profitable business in media, and the future of its business will likely exist somewhere beneath that superlative. But as long as Americans enjoy sports—and as long as individual sports leagues see a financial benefit in selling access to an entertainment company rather than selling straight to consumers—there is every reason to expect ESPN will continue to be an extremely valuable network.”
Vito Acconci Was Hugely Influential On A Generation Of Artists. Hard To Believe He’d Have That Impact Today
It is hard to imagine how some of Acconci’s work, which addresses consent as both a theme and a medium, would be received as new work by museum audiences today. (Notwithstanding Acconci’s successful retrospective at MoMA P.S.1 in 2016, his place in the canon by then long established.) Recent examples of socially transgressive artworks suggest that the answer may be: not so well.
ABT’s Hard-Working Dancers Had A Seedy Old Lounge Area – And Then Architectural Digest Stepped In
“There were stained futons that you wouldn’t even let your college freshman sit on,” said Amy Astley, the glossy mag’s editor-in-chief and a ballet fan. A donor took care of construction costs, and Astley convinced the designer and all the furnishings suppliers to donate the rest. Here’s the story, with before-and-after pics.
Maybe Dropping The Turner Prize’s Age Limit Wasn’t Such A Good Idea
The Art Newspaper‘s Ben Luke argues that limiting the prize to artists under 50 was a crucial element in the Turner Prize’s success in drawing wide attention to emerging talent (the stated reason for the award’s existence), and that eliminating that limit will make jurors’ jobs much more difficult.
Who Was The Worst-Dressed At The Met Gala? The Naked Guy In A Glass Box
It was Russian performance artist Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich, who has pulled this stunt performed this piece several times before. (Yes, he was arrested. And no, he’s not the guy who nailed his scrotum to Red Square.)
Orchestra Of St. Luke’s Next Chief Conductor Will Be –
Bernard Labadie, founder of the Quebec City-based chamber orchestra Les Violons du Roy. He takes over from Pablo Heras-Casado at the podium of New York’s leading freelance orchestra in 2018. Michael Cooper talks to Labadie about his plans for the band and his recovery from lymphoma.
Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Underground Railroad’ Leads Nominees For Top Science Fiction Prize
Sure, Railroad qualifies: it’s a historical novel, but it’s also a steampunk fantasy. The nominee authors are an unusually diverse lot: in addition to Whitehead (an African-American male), there are three (white) females, an Israeli male, and a transgender Korean-American.
Will This Be Kenya’s First International Ballet Star?
Here’s the story of Joel Kioko, 16, who was discovered in a Nairobi slum and now, after only three years of training, has won a full scholarship to the English National Ballet School. (includes video)
Has Our Understanding Of How The World Works Gotten Too Complex For Most Of Us To Understand?
“Whether contemplating the pros and cons of climate change; the role of evolution; the risks versus benefits of vaccines, cancer screening, proper nutrition, genetic engineering; trickle-down versus bottom-up economic policies; or how to improve local traffic, we must be comfortable with a variety of statistical and scientific methodologies, complex risk-reward and probability calculations – not to mention an intuitive grasp of the difference between fact, theory and opinion. Even moral decisions, such as whether or not to sacrifice one life to save five (as in the classic trolley-car experiment), boil down to often opaque calculations of the relative value of the individual versus the group. If we are not up to the cognitive task, how might we be expected to respond?”