“At the Curtis Institute of Music, where faculty members tend to stay for decades, a seismic shift is coming to the school’s storied opera and vocal studies department. Eric Owens and Danielle Orlando will assume co-equal roles as head of opera starting in the 2019-20 season, the school announced last week.”
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The Curse Continues? Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote Film Loses U.S. Distribution As Amazon Pulls Out
Because there’s just no way that this endlessly jinxed movie should get some uncompromised good news: Amazon Studios, which helped revive the prospects of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote in 2015 when it became a co-producer of the film, quietly decided several weeks ago not to distribute the title, apparently because of a last-hour rights dispute.
Some Good News For Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote Film: French Court Rejects Injunction To Stop Cannes Screening
“In the long-running quest of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the movie has scored a victory. Directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce, the film has gotten the go-ahead to close the Cannes Film Festival next week after a judge in France rejected a lawsuit by producer Paulo Branco that would have blocked it.”
Per Kirkeby, Latter-Day Abstract Expressionist Painter, Dead At 79
“Kirkeby rose to notoriety during the early 1980s alongside fellow European Neo-Expressionist artists Markus Lüpertz, A. R. Penck, Jörg Immendorff, and Georg Baselitz, all of whom brought a renewed emphasis on formalism and painterly technique to an art world that had, by then, nearly given up on their medium.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.09.18
American Success Story: Rockefeller’s & George Washington’s Conquest of Christie’s
For the second night in a row, bidding on the Rockefeller Collection at Christie’s handily outstripped the low presale estimate. In a livelier session … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2018-05-09
Building Community, Skin Against Skin
Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, working in both Brussels and Berlin, visits NYU Skirball … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2018-05-09
Conductor Karina Canellakis Gets Her First Major Orchestra
“Shortly after beginning her first season as assistant conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra four years ago, Karina Canellakis got one of those big breaks. The orchestra’s music director, Jaap van Zweden, was injured, and she was asked to lead Shostakovich’s formidable Eighth Symphony without even one rehearsal. … Since then her conducting career has exploded, and now she is again following in Mr. van Zweden’s footsteps: Ms. Canellakis, a 36-year-old native New Yorker, has been named the next chief conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra – a post that Mr. van Zweden held from 2006 to 2012.”