05.19.14 – Page 2 – ArtsJournal Wayback

The 911 Museum – How To Pay Respect

“With more than 10,000 objects, 23,000 images and 500 hours of film and video, the 110,000-square-foot Memorial Museum opens with a collection and square footage to match many substantial museums. That’s why the museum, along with the memorial, cost a staggering $700 million, requiring a $24 adult admission and a $60 million annual budget that’s far from fully endowed. At such a scale, it cannot entirely avoid grandiosity.”

Whitney To Give Free Admission To Museum Construction Worlers

“We are working with Turner Construction, the company that is responsible for building our new home downtown, to ensure that all construction workers who are contributing their time and effort to the project will be given complimentary admission for the first year that we are open.”

‘Fun Home’, Estelle Parsons Winners At 2014 Obie Awards

‘Fun Home’, the musical based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir, won two prizes, for musical theater and for its ten-year-old co-star, Sydney Lucas. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins earned best new American play honors for two different scripts, and the 86-year-old Parsons took home a Lifetime Achievement award.

Osipova And Vasiliev Join Ranks Of Ballet-Star-Slash-Impresarios

“It started off as a novelty and now it’s becoming a trend, as Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev have joined the list of top-flight ballet dancers who are opting to expand their performing (and earning) potential by presenting their own independent projects. In recent years that list has included Darcey Bussell, Carlos Acosta and the all-male Kings of the Dance ensemble, all of whom have moonlighted from their home companies to present and star in programmes of works they’ve personally selected or commissioned.”

‘It’s A Company’s Job To Figure Out How To Roll With Those Punches’: Anne Midgette On The San Diego Opera Saga

“If BMW announced that it was closing up shop because that there was no longer the market for luxury cars that there once was, people would laugh, and say that it served them right. … Whatever the future of opera and classical music may be, it looks like it favors the smaller, more flexible, more spontaneous, more visionary, and may look bad for the monumental and the status quo. I fail to see how that’s a bad thing.”

Cinematographer Gordon Willis, the ‘Prince Of Darkness’, Dead At 82

His work on the Godfather trilogy, The Parallax View, Klute, and Woody Allen’s films helped define the very look of 1970s American cinema.

Why There Are Ghostwriters

Jessa “Bookslut” Crispin considers the reasons that ghostwriters’ clients want to be seen as authors in the first place, why the ghostwriters themselves will do the job, and why the reading public calmly accepts the arrangements.

An Ancient Byzantine iPad?

“Turkish archaeologists excavating a harbor site on the European side of the Bosphorus have unearthed a 1,200-year-old wooden object which they claim is the ancient equivalent of a tablet computer. The device was a notebook and tool – in one.”

YIVO Opens New Web Portal On Jewish Life In Prewar Poland

“YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, once located in Poland but now in New York, has created a portal, Polishjews.yivoarchives.org, that presents a variety of documents, videos (from film), audio clips in Yiddish , Polish, Hebrew and Russian – all described in English.”

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