“Theatres and arts centres across the country are under threat of immediate cuts to their subsidies after Arts Council England was ordered to make £19 million of savings to its 2010/11 budget, with ACE warning it cannot guarantee funded organisations will be protected.”
Tag: 05.26.10
Met Museum’s Longtime Concert Manager Retires
“Hilde Limondjian is stepping down as the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s music impresario, the Met said, ending a 41-year run that turned the Met’s concert series into a New York fixture.”
‘The Awful Movie Everyone Wants To See’
“Unusually for a midnight-movie favorite, The Room contains no flesh-eating ghouls, no polygamous devil cults and no time-traveling transvestites. It is essentially a domestic drama … The actual film, though, is like a Koch snowflake of badness, wherein any scene has an infinite number of things wrong with it … But The Room rises above garden-variety awful for a number of reasons.”
How To Make A Mess Onstage
“The sets of four new [Off-Broadway] shows – That Face; This Wide Night; The Metal Children; and Oliver Parker! – look like something out of an episode of TV’s Hoarders. … The set designers of all four shows recently spoke about their inspirations and the meticulous work it takes to get a set to look perfectly grubby.”
At Long Last, BookExpo Makes Way For Digital Publishing
“As the trade show BookExpo America revved up its new abbreviated version here Tuesday, the digital publishing industry was given a prominent place at the annual gathering of one of the country’s most traditional businesses — the ink and paper world of book publishing.”
Italy’s Opera House Honchos In Bid To Prevent Budget Cuts
“Today the directors of all 14 opera houses will hold a crunch meeting with Sandro Bondi, the Culture Minister, in a last effort to stave off the cuts,” which the government says are necessary as “part of a package of austerity measures. … But for performers and legions of opera lovers, what is at stake is an art form that is a symbol of Italy throughout the world.”
Puncturing The Romantic Myths About Art Theft
“Hollywood has painted a picture of the art thief as glamorous, besuited Thomas Crowns, pilfering art for the thrill and challenge of it. But in the real world, it’s a much less charming affair. … In fact, most museum crooks are second-rate thugs that steal art because it packs so much value into such a compact and portable package.”
Tina Fey To Get Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Humor Prize
“And before anyone asks, let’s settle the question of honoring someone who’s a mere 40 years old. ‘It does change the paradigm a bit,’ said Mark Krantz, co-executive producer of the Twain salute. … ‘A lot of people felt it was a lifetime achievement award for an old person. It never has been.'”
Case Of The Missing Oscar: Where Is Hattie McDaniel’s?
“It belongs to Howard University’s theater department, which has spent years trying to figure out what happened to the Oscar that disappeared decades ago…. Howard archivists say there’s no official record that the university ever received the award,” the first given to an African American, yet “former students vividly recall seeing it.”
As Opening Nears, What To Call Lincoln Center Restaurant?
“There is only one rule about the name: it shouldn’t be an unfortunate choice that sticks out its chin,” restaurant consultant Clark Wolf said. “Remember, they named a restaurant Vertigo on a higher floor of the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco. Boy, did that go away fast.”