05.06.15 – Page 2 – ArtsJournal Wayback

How Having Your Work Successfully Sell At Auction Can Hurt Your Career

“It can be a curse when artists appear early in their career at auction with high prices. This increases expectations and pressures that they cannot always cope with.”

The Remarkable Life Of Russia’s Greatest Ballerina

Maya Plisetskaya retired formally as a soloist when she was 63, but she never left ballet. On her 70th birthday, she debuted in “Ave Maya,” choreographed for her by Maurice Béjart. She danced “Ave Maya” again for her 80th anniversary and at 82 Plisetskaya, still steady on her high heels, once more danced Béjart’s piece at the Cap Roig Gardens festival in Spain.

Who Isn’t Consuming The Arts? And Why Aren’t They?

“When large numbers of people face barriers to participating in the arts in the way they might want to, we know that we’re missing opportunities to improve people’s lives in concrete and meaningful ways. What’s really behind this phenomenon of lower participation rates among economically disadvantaged people? And what can, and should, we do about it?”

Great Dead Comedians To Take The Stage Again – As Holograms

“The National Comedy Center, which is scheduled to open next year in Jamestown, N.Y., is to unveil plans for a comedy club that will feature holograms of stand-ups and comic actors from various eras.”

Why Amy Schumer’s Parody Of ‘Twelve Angry Men’ Is Both A Viral Hit And A Brilliant Satire

“The wonderfully absurd universe of the sketch – a woman [Schumer herself] literally on trial for the crime of not being ‘bangable’ – … [is] a parody with a tone that adheres remarkably close to its source material … with the fatal strike coming from the direction you weren’t looking.” (And the cast – Paul Giamatti, Jeff Goldblum, John Hawkes, etc. – is terrific.)

Meet The Man Who Plays Big Bird And Oscar The Grouch

A Q&A with Caroll Spinney, 81, who has performed two of Sesame Street‘s most enduring characters for the show’s entire 45-year history.

Alice Notley Wins $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

“Notley, who now lives in Paris, … has published more than 30 books, beginning in 1971 with 165 Meeting House Lane and continuing with two new volumes due this year, Certain Magical Acts and Benediction.”

What Do We See In Our Minds As We Read? And What Don’t We See?

Many readers know – or think they know – the answer to that question. “The problem is that upon close examination the reading experience is far more complex and far less visual than is commonly supposed.”

Life Is A Performance – Is That A Depressing Thought? It Shouldn’t Be

“The melancholy Jacques in As You Like It declares that, ‘All the world’s a stage,/ And all the men and women merely players.’ Macbeth cries, ‘Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,’ and Prospero sighs, ‘the great globe … shall dissolve / And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, / Leave not a rack behind.’ … But the metaphors themselves aren’t the problem. It’s the bitter taste we’ve baked into them.”

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