“Liberal Muslim activist and author Irshad Manji and her assistant suffered minor injuries after hundreds people from the Indonesian Mujahidin Council (MMI) attacked the writer’s book launch at the Institute for Islamic and Social Studies (LKiS) Foundation in Yogyakarta on Wednesday.”
Tag: 05.10.12
Selling Man Ray’s Legacy – From The Auto-Body Shop
“Mr. Browner, now 86 years old, had only met Man Ray once before he and his brothers stepped in three decades ago to help their bereaved sister sort out the artist’s affairs. Today, Mr. Browner manages 15,000 copyrights for the artist and oversees licensing contracts worth roughly $300,000 a year–from Mandarin Hotel headboards embroidered with Man Ray’s images to Zara’s taupe-colored Man Ray shirts. The trust’s proceeds are split among a dozen heirs.”
The Courage To Write (The Damned Stage Directions)
“It took flipping out about stage directions for me to realize how much I have internalized all the various messages I’ve heard and witnessed over the past seven years. And it’s even sadder that I felt the need for permission from others to embrace something that used to be instinctual to my process.”
Crap Year For Musicals – Thank The Theatre Gods For Performers
“Does it say something about the state of the American musical theater that the animating incident in the most accomplished new Broadway show of the season is the repairing of a vacuum cleaner?”
The Problem With High Art Prices Isn’t About The Art – It’s About Inequality
Christopher Knight: “The obscenity isn’t in the astronomical sums art has been fetching, it’s in the circumstances that make those prices possible.”
After Mass Layoffs, Australian Nat’l University’s Head Of Music Disappears
“The Australian National University’s School of Music head Professor Adrian Walter has taken an indefinite leave of absence from his job following escalating tensions … Last week all 32 permanent academics and staff at the School of Music were told their positions were being spilled as part of a dramatic restructure – with ten positions to be axed” and professors told to reapply for the remaining jobs.
Architect Rafael Moneo Wins Spain’s Highest Arts Honor
“Spanish architect Rafael Moneo, whose designs include the Los Angeles Cathedral, the revamped Stockholm Museum of Modern Art and Madrid’s Atocha Railway Station, has won the Prince of Asturias arts award.”
Abbey Theatre To Close For Asbestos Removal
“The auditorium in Dublin’s Abbey Theatre is to close for nine weeks this summer while asbestos is removed. … Other parts of the theatre are to remain open for business during the operation, with the auditorium due to reopen in time for the Dublin Theatre Festival [in late September].”
Oldest Known Mayan Calendar Found In Guatemala
“In the remote northeastern corner of Guatemala, archaeologists have found what appears to be the 9th century workplace of a city scribe, an unusual dwelling adorned with magnificent pictures of the king and other royals and the oldest known Maya calendar.”
Who Was García Lorca’s Lover? After 70 Years, We Finally Know
“The identity of the lover to whom Federico García Lorca wrote passionate verse in his final year has been a mystery ever since the poet’s assassination during the Spanish civil war. But now, more than 70 years later, his name has finally emerged.