“I did dance two years ago – I’ve never said to myself, ‘I’ve stopped dancing.’ … [But] you know, mind and heart are saying, ‘I’m better than everybody else’. But body sometimes is saying, ‘Easy, easy, easy boy!”
Tag: 07.22.12
Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center Adds More Pop Entertainment To Programming Mix
“Pure art, which inevitably requires philanthropic support, remains a part of the Kimmel mission. But commercial acts are gaining an edge, fattening the Kimmel’s earned-revenue column. ‘We have 8,000 seats per night to entertain our community,’ says Kimmel president Anne Ewers.”
Canadian Opera Company Keeps Alexander Neef For Eight More Years
“His method is to build shows as carefully as possible, let no detail slip by unconsidered, and miss no opportunity for what he calls ‘the transformational project,’ the endeavour that changes the company, ratchets up its level of achievement and – very importantly – alters people’s perceptions about what it can do. If it takes years to pull that off, he and his company are willing to work and wait.”
Can The Barnes Foundation And The Rodin Museum Achieve Synergy?
“Having the Barnes collection next door should benefit Rodin, which has coordinated its opening hours with those of its neighbor. However, the Barnes is such an overwhelming experience, especially for first-time visitors, that doing Rodin on the same day might strike even committed aesthetes as a too-formidable challenge. Certainly the two collections demand different mind-sets.”
Let’s Stop Funding Shakespeare For A While, Says Lyn Gardner
“[It’s] hard to dispute the fact that the dominance of Shakespeare does crowd out new writing and other forms of theatre in Britain. So what to do? My suggestion is not that we should stop producing Shakespeare, but that we should have a brief – perhaps two-year – moratorium on funding his work.”
Palestinian Grocer Settles $115M Slander Suit Against Sacha Baron Cohen
“In the movie [Brüno], Ayman Abu Aita, a Christian peace activist, escorted Cohen’s alter-ego Brüno, a gay fashion journalist trying to make peace in the Middle East, to a Lebanese refugee camp. Abu Aita was identified in a caption as ‘Terrorist group leader, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade’.”
Monica Mason – 54 Years At The Royal Ballet
“On the one hand, she broke the Royal mold with the attack and scale of her dancing; on the other, her overall career has been the embodiment of tradition and duty.”
A Tax Bill Of $29 Million – For A Piece Of Art That Is Illegal To Sell
While art lovers may appreciate the I.R.S.’s aesthetic sensibilities, some estate planners, tax lawyers and collectors are alarmed at the agency’s position, arguing that the case could upend the standard practice of valuing assets according to their sale in a normal market. I.R.S. guidelines say that in figuring an item’s fair market value, taxpayers should “include any restrictions, understandings, or covenants limiting the use or disposition of the property.”
How Deitch’s Shenanigans At MOCA Look To The World Outside The Broad Bubble
“The museum, which counted artists among its most active founders, has always had them on its board. In a sense their loss was as shocking as anything that came before, because it signaled in the extreme a loss of faith on the part of artists. Mr. Deitch’s tenure as director has so far been a disappointment even to the people who thought it was a feasible idea in the first place.”
Without Ushers, Even The Cleveland Orchestra Wouldn’t Sound So Good
They deal with whiny patrons who want to text, happy patrons who love the musicians a little too much, and heart attacks that happen “inevitably a minute before curtain.” They’re ushers. Don’t mess with them – or with the orchestra.