“The Contemporary Austin has named artist [and MacArthur fellow] Nicole Eisenman as winner of the 2020 Suzanne Deal Booth/FLAG Art Foundation Prize. … [The award] is now valued at $800,000, including $200,000 in cash, plus twinned exhibitions here and in New York, as well as publications and travel.”
Tag: 08.02.18
ABT Begins Four-Year Partnership With Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre
“The institutions’ collaborative engagements will be staged each spring through 2022. [American Ballet Theatre] first appeared at the Auditorium in 1969. … The ABT partnership follows the Joffrey Ballet’s announced move from the Auditorium to [Lyric Opera of Chicago], a shift slated for 2020.”
Eiffel Tower Reopened After Two-Day Strike Over Long Lines
“The iconic monument [had] been closed since Wednesday afternoon as unions argued with management over the lopsided lines stemming from a decision to reserve certain elevators for visitors with pre-booked tickets while those who buy them upon arrival languish in long queues.”
Jacques Wirtz, 93, Renowned Landscape Architect
“Mr. Wirtz, whose career began when he opened a flower nursery in 1946, would decades later be compared to André Le Nôtre, the French landscape architect who designed the magnificent gardens of Versailles. … [He] designed gardens for private residences, large estates, public parks, museums, college campuses and corporate headquarters.”
No More Free Sundays At Colosseum, Uffizi, Etc., Says Italy’s New Government
“The new culture minister of Italy’s populist coalition government, Alberto Bonisoli, has [announced] that a monthly free-entry initiative at the country’s museums and monuments is coming to an end. Since July 2014, more than 480 state-run cultural sites, including Pompeii, the Uffizi and the Colosseum, have been free to visit on the first Sunday of every month. Known as Domenica al museo (Sunday at the museum), the policy was one of many culture reforms introduced by Bonisoli’s centre-left predecessor, Dario Franceschini.”
Washington Bach Consort Names Dana Marsh Artistic Director
One of the standard-bearers for period-instrument performance in DC, the Consort chose Marsh, currently director of Indiana University’s historical performance program, to succeed founding director J. Reilly Lewis, who died suddenly in June of 2016.
Will The Success Of “Waitress” Lead To More Women-Led Theatre On Broadway?
“My takeaway was that there was great excitement, and almost a sense of relief, to see women being offered these roles,” Sara Bareilles says of “Waitress.” “And the most exciting thing is looking at the next generation of composers, book writers, directors and choreographers now that there’s this wonderful network of women in the industry.”
Grousing about Klaus: Is Biesenbach Right for MOCA?
Much as I try, I can’t muster great enthusiasm for the appointment of Klaus Biesenbach to the directorship of MOCA, Los Angeles … While ambivalent, I didn’t have any strong objections to his appointment (as I did with MOCA’s last two picks), until I read Robin Pogrebin’s report in the NY Times.
How Should Critics Write About Actors’ Bodies? Or Should They Do It At All?
Natasha Tripney: “It’s part of a critic’s remit after all to look at what’s before them actively and analytically. But if this discussion is to take place, it needs to be with the awareness that while an actor’s body is their art, their tool, it is also not something they slip off at the end of a performance like a dress.”
What Do Younger Gay Men Make Of ‘The Boys In The Band’? The Times Sent A Couple Of Them To See It
“I truly didn’t know Boys in the Band from The Boys From Brazil.” Zachary Woolfe (33, classical music editor/opera critic), Matthew Schneier (34, reporter/critic for Styles), and Wesley Morris (42, critic-at-large) talk about the play and movie (which only Morris had ever seen or read before) with Stuart Emmrich (63, editor, seen it all).