“The corpse is still warm, and already they are dancing past it. The Paul Taylor Dance Company said on Thursday that it would move three weeks of performances in the spring to the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, filling part of the gap left by the departing New York City Opera.”
Tag: 07.15.11
Last Pillar Standing: Will Artists Be Ireland’s Salvation?
With so many pillars of Irish society – the Church, the banks, the Fianna Fail government, the “Celtic Tiger” mystique – having crumbled, the country’s artists are, as filmmaker Neil Jordan says, “the one element of Irish life that hadn’t let people down. We hadn’t betrayed people.” (And the new government knows it.)
Why Is Important American Historical Document Hidden Away?
“As the Forward has documented in recent weeks, the letter that embedded religious freedom as a core American value has been hidden away in a nondescript arts storage facility in suburban Maryland ever since the museum in which it was housed closed its doors in 2002. And neither B’nai B’rith nor the foundation has offered a convincing reason for why this iconic document has not been allowed to be publicly displayed.”