“Shakespeare’s Globe is to slash the cost of tours at the venue by 26% when guides begin two days of strikes later this month. … Tour guides who are members of backstage union BECTU will strike on May 18 and June 1, when the venue will make use of specially developed audio guides instead.”
Tag: 05.11.15
How Does A 45-Year-Old Ballet Dancer Keep His Body In Shape For Strenuous Roles?
Gary Avis of London’s Royal Ballet has a daily routine “as strenuous as [that of] any professional rugby player: three hours of training each morning, five or six hour rehearsals in the afternoons and a three hour performance in the evening. Yet with a physique that sportsmen half his age would envy, he shows no sign of winding down.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.11.15
$179.37-Million Picasso: My Storify Report on Christie’s Record-Smashing Sale
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-05-11
Entry from an unkept diary
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-05-11
Measuring success
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2015-05-08
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Say Goodbye Forever To Picasso’s Women of Algiers, Heading Into Private Hands Tonight
“Under the guise of so-called ‘quality,’ auction houses fabricate a pervasive psychic field that sees art in terms of price and profit. This seductive shallow field forces collectors with similar work or similar -isms to rush the same artists and -isms to auction the following season to reap ever-higher prices.”