What’s going on there?! “Jennifer Y. Chi, who was named chief curator and deputy director of the Brooklyn Museum in September and began her tenure there in November, is no longer at the institution.”
Tag: 06.22.18
Shakespeareans Are Obsessed With One 1601 Performance Of ‘Richard II’ That May Have Sparked A Rebellion
Here’s the deal: The Earl of Essex and his buddies commissioned the Lord Chamberlain’s Men (you know who was in that company) to perform a play, maybe, or perhaps probably, Richard II (which concerns a monarch who was deposed), the day before they tried to rally London to support the Earl against Queen Elizabeth’s men. Whoops: “They will be accused of using the play to foment rebellion. One of them, Sir Gelly Meyrick, will be hanged, drawn, and quartered for his part in commissioning the performance.”
The Balloon Has Popped For Many Summer Comedies, And That’s Bad For The Movie Business
Last year, Girls Trip was the big success, but other comedies didn’t do well – and this year, more of the same, except without Girls Trip. Is streaming changing the landscape? Or is it action blockbusters?
Musicians In Britain Are Trying Like Heck To Ensure Fans Don’t Pay Huge Reseller Prices
And yet: “The high cost of stadium concert tours is deterring some fans from buying tickets, along with the fact that restrictive British weather and the dates of major sports fixtures mean that these large shows take place in a relatively concentrated summer period.” (Not to mention the random text messages changing people’s seats either to better seats or to way, way worse seats … thanks to “production” issues?)
Can The Berlinale Regain – And Increase – Its Status As A Film Festival With Two New Directors?
The German Culture Ministry thinks the Berlin Film Festival will become “more feminine” with a woman managing director, and also that “the festival would take on a ‘younger, more international and more adventurous’ direction under its new leadership” – Locarno Film Festival director Carlo Chatrian and movie industry executive Mariette Rissenbeek.
The Very Young Composers And Their Massive First Audience
The two 11-year-olds debuted their works during the New York Phil’s Music in the Parks programs last week. And they clearly know what they’re doing: “Both girls speak with clarity and command; there was no kids-say-the-darndest-things cuteness as they navigated topics like inspiration, writer’s block and gender disparity in classical music.”
Use The N-Word At Netflix? Not Even The Chief Communications Officer Can Do That Without Getting Fired
Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO, said in a letter in which he told the company about firing Jonathan Friedland, “I realize that my privilege has made me intellectualize or otherwise minimize race issues like this. I need to set a better example by learning and listening more so I can be the leader we need.”
In Hungary, A Pro-Government Site Says ‘Billy Elliott’ Is Gay Propaganda, And The Hungarian Opera Shuts It Down
Hungary’s government organs embrace homophobia as a matter of course, in this case causing the opera to cancel 15 of the planned performances of the musical. “Zsofia N. Horvath said that the musical’s message of ‘Dare to be yourself’ referred ‘of course’ to being gay. ‘How can such an important national institution as the opera go against the objectives of the state and use a performance made for young people around 10, at their most fragile age, for such pointed and unrestrained gay propaganda?’ she asked.”
An Orchestra Of Robots Will Perform For You Now
Well, not now, but soon. Italian musician Leonardo Barbadoro is “still in the Kickstarter stage of his album, entitled Musica Automata, and it’s ambitious: the full robot orchestra has 50 members, and he can control each of them from his laptop.”
The New Art Will Be Across The Water, In The Shipyard
That’s right, the new Boston Institute of Contemporary Art space is in the East Boston Shipyard, and the route is over the bay: “It’s accessible via a new ferry route negotiated by the museum to run from Memorial Day to Columbus Day between South Boston and the waterfront in Eastie, as locals call East Boston.”