“‘Poetry makes nothing happen,’ William Butler Yeats once wrote. But then he never got a chance to read ‘In Praise of Air,’ a poem by Simon Armitage just installed on a building along a busy road at the University of Sheffield, England, and billed as the world’s first bit of air-cleansing verse.”
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Cameron Mackintosh Aims London Revival Of ‘Miss Saigon’ For Broadway
And the Engineer will be played by an Asian actor this time around.
Warhol Paintings Pull In $103.9M At Blockbuster Christie’s Auction
Race Riot sold for $62.9 million and White Marilyn drew $41 million – and there were works by Newman, Rothko and Bacon that went for even more in an evening that brought in a total of $744.9 million.
Philadelphia’s Newest Art Venue Is A Railroad Corridor
A very heavily traveled corridor, too: the track between North Philadelphia and 30th Street Station. Big swathes of the blighted landscape that commuters usually see out their windows are now covered with washes and patterns of hot pink, brilliant orange and white or neon green.
L.A. Master Chorale Gives Grant Gershon New Title, Five More Years
“Conductor Grant Gershon is extending his tenure with the Los Angeles Master Chorale by five years through the end of the 2019-20 season, company leaders announced on Wednesday. Gershon, who joined the choral group in 2001, will take on the title of artistic director starting in July.”
London Theatre Finally Begins Looking Toward Europe’s Vanguard
A clutch of successful productions are – in outlook, approaches to staging, and sometimes even choice of directors – finally bringing serious theatre in the British capital toward dialogue with its counterparts on the Continent. Yet, argues Andrew Haydon, there’s still some distance to go, especially in presenting new European plays in translation.
The ‘West Side Story’ Of Avian Mating Dances
It’s “a drama of conflict, comedy and sex” that plays out in the American West every April, as groups of male sage grouse strut, fan their tail feathers, and puff the twin yellow sacs on their chests as they try to impress the hens. (includes video)
Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.14.14
Two Steps Forward, A Half-One Back, In Detroit
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-05-14
Plan B
AJBlog: Engaging Matters | Published 2014-05-14
Laughter in the dark
AJBlog: Performance Monkey | Published 2014-05-14
Walk, Do Not Dance!
AJBlog: Dancebeat | Published 2014-05-14
Artist-Activist Daniel Beaty
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-05-14
Remembering Joe Wilder
AJBlog: RiffTides | Published 2014-05-14
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LA Public Radio Station KPCC To Launch Major New Arts Coverage
Veteran LA Times entertainment industry reporter John Horn will anchor a five-person team that KPCC calls “our most ambitious programming effort since the launch of Take Two in 2012.”
Dreams Of (And An Architect For) A New $300 Million Museum In Vancouver. But…
“The contempt with which the Conservatives hold the cultural community in the city is palpable. You get no sense when talking to top-ranking Tories that they believe Vancouver is a metropolis deserving of a world-class museum; more so is the belief the city needs to grow up a bit first, become a little more worldly and sophisticated.”