“As an insider’s account, 1F: The Labour Diary of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, has proved popular among readers seeking an antidote to patchy information from the government and the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), and at times wildly speculative media reports.”
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Monologuist Mike Daisey May Have Found His Perfect Subject
And it’s the big, volatile, controversial, and, er, colourful mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford. (audio)
Who’s The Best Blanche DuBois In 15 Years? L.A. Times Theater Critic Says It’s Renée Fleming
Charles McNulty writes of the soprano’s performance in André Previn’s operatic adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play, “Fleming is quite simply the best Blanche I’ve seen since Elizabeth Marvel brutally assayed the role in Ivo van Hove’s brilliant deconstruction at New York Theater Workshop in 1999.”
Minnesota Orchestra Names New Top Officials
Kevin Smith, who in 25 years at the helm of Minnesota Opera expanded its season, doubled attendance and sextupled the budget, will become the orchestra’s interim CEO as of Sept. 1. Dianne Brennan, who served for 16 years as the Guthrie Theater’s development director, will be the orchestra’s new Vice President for Advancement.
Looted Egyptian Antiquities Now Recovered And On Display In Cairo
“Around 200 stolen artefacts, recovered since Egypt’s 2011 revolution, are now on show at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo in an exhibition that runs for three months. Most of the objects were recovered abroad, while some 60 were seized in Egypt before they could leave the country.”
Chinese Museum Shut Down Over Thousands Of Fake Items
“Police shut down the Lucheng Museum, in the northeastern province of Liaoning, after finding that almost a third of the 8,000 items on display were not genuine.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.22.14
The fast and the spurious
AJBlog: The Artful Manager | Published 2014-05-22
Will Kickstarter Save Culture? And, Curvy Divas
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-05-22
Ballet on Ripper Street
AJBlog: Performance Monkey | Published 2014-05-22
Arts Entrepreneurshp, A Story, Part II
AJBlog: State of the Art | Published 2014-05-22
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Former Ballet Stars Band Together To Try To Improve The Art Form
“I discovered that there were many former dancers of great repute who were under-utilized, not necessarily by choice. I rounded up a nice group of greats who wish to give back to the art form. They form my Artistic Advisory Board. Each of them have a voice and had great careers and were notable for either their musicality, presence, dramatic qualities or purity.”
Note To PJ O’Rourke: Anti-Intellectualism Isn’t So Cool
“P.J. O’Rourke has offered us the gallows but not the humor, the misstated problem and its ludicrous solution.”
After 35 Years, Cannes Film Festival President Steps Down
Gilles Jacob is widely credited with not allowing commercial pressures to weigh too heavily on the films selected for competition. “My formula is art cinema for a wide audience, or intelligent popular cinema,” he said. “They’re the same thing.”