“The preliminary document, released Wednesday after eight months of research and ahead of a full report due at the end of the year, cites several shocking oversights; for example, the Louvre is critiqued for storing Classical sculptures in a subterranean chamber that could not be properly evacuated in the event of an overflow of the Seine river.”
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Is Arts Council England Penalizing The English National Opera For Being Adventurous?
“We are told that ENO is being penalised for failing to meet audience targets. But a theatre devoted to artistic adventure is bound to risk occasional box-office failure: it was precisely to buttress such eventualities that the subsidy-principle was established. If we are back to measuring artistic success by the old bums-on-seats philosophy, then we are truly heading back to the dark ages.”
Emmy Scorecard: By Show And Network
Here’s the complete list of Emmy nominees for 2014.
Sales Of Tablets Have Stalled. Has Our Imagination Run Dry?
“Tablets have become as mundane as the PCs whose decline they hastened. Instead of radical hardware innovations, the maxed-out market is racing toward as many screen sizes as shoe sizes.”
These Days We Map Everything. Here’s What We Lose By Doing That
“We are all cartographic obsessives these days. It’s great in some ways, but it also feeds into the unhealthy situation in which if we don’t know exactly where we are and where everything else is in relationship to us, we start prodding our screens and thinking something is amiss. This is profoundly disempowering, for it suggests that without constant expert advice, we would all be driving in circles or off cliffs.”
Appraisers’ Report On Detroit Institute Of Arts Collection Is Here
“The first formal valuation of the entire city-owned collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts finds that the roughly 60,000 pieces of art are worth between $2.8 billion and $4.6 billion.” Unless they’re actually sold, in which case they’d bring in a lot less.
New York City Ballet’s New Resident Choreographer: Justin Peck
His appointment, just two years after his first work for City Ballet, “makes him the second person to hold this position at City Ballet, after Christopher Wheeldon, who was the company’s resident choreographer from 2001 to 2008.”
Seymour Barab, 93, Cellist And Composer Of Whimsical Chamber Operas
While he did write serious stage works based on Dostoevsky and de Maupassant, “he was still more widely known for lighter one-act works whose accessibility, tunefulness and economy of scale made them among the most frequently performed operas in the world … perennial favorites of college, semiprofessional and regional companies.”