Her first musical, “Mod Donna,” had its opening at the Public in 1970. One Lamb supporter: “I was at opening night with my then-boyfriend, … a deceptively mild-mannered man who rose out of his chair at the curtain and began to shout that feminism was a sham and that he would tell the awful truth about what wretched liars, manipulators, fakes and so on we in the movement were. I had never seen him in such a rage. Many men in the audience around us were nodding approval at his outburst.”
Tag: 09.22.17
What’s The Point Of Our (Illusory) Sense Of Agency, Anyway?
What one neuropsychology professor thinks: “If our experience of action doesn’t really affect what we do in the moment, then what is it for? Why have it? Contrary to what many people believe, I think agency is only relevant to what happens after we act – when we try to justify and explain ourselves to each other.”
Are Artists About To Get Kicked Out Of Bushwick By A Wave Of Development?
Many people see the artists as the first wave of development and gentrification, of course. “Tensions have simmered for much of the past decade between Bushwick’s longtime Latino and African American residents and artists who moved into the area. But as more people discover the neighborhood’s charms, investors pour money into projects that increase property values and eventually force long-time residents and artists to leave for good.”
Ritha Devi, A ‘Consummate Actress’ Who Brought Indian Classical Dance To The U.S., Has Died At 92
She specialized in Odissi, a form of temple dance from the eastern Indian state of Odisha. “By the 1940s and ’50s, Odissi had fallen out of favor in India. But Ms. Devi, who began studying it in 1964, helped revive it through worldwide tours in the 1970s and as a professor in New York University’s dance department from 1972 to 1982.”
Where Are All Of The Rural Gay Poets?
Obviously they’ve all moved to cities, right? But for real: Does “the omission of gay voices in [the] rural canon gesture toward a more pointed claim, that the ‘moral glory’ of the American countryside somehow prevented, or at least denied, the existence of gay men and women”?
José Carreras, The Third Tenor In The Three Tenors’ Juggernaut, Exits The Stage
Carreras was on his way to the heights of opera stardom when he was struck by leukemia – but a comeback concert with friends and fellow tenors Luciano Pavarotti and Plácido Domingo turned him into a massive crossover star. Now he’s preparing to sing his final concert at Carnegie Hall.
Inside The Massive, Two-Year Effort To Save, And Restore, Gainsborough’s ‘Blue Boy’
The Huntington’s senior paintings conservator, Christina O’Connell, has a plan. “The Blue Boy will be reframed and returned to the portrait gallery on November 1. It will remain there for 10 months while O’Connell processes reams of data and formulates her treatment plan. Then the painting will come down for another several months of treatment. Part of this work will be done in the lab, but as much as possible will be completed in a cordoned-off area of the portrait gallery, in full view of the visiting public.”
Cressida Pollock, Who Steered The English National Opera Through Its Troubles, Will Step Down
That righting came at a cost – cutting the number of operas, losing a music director, dealing with a threatened strike by the chorus – but the young executive director leaves the ENO on a much more stable financial footing, with new artistic leadership coming in.
Can The Zeitz Museum Become The Tate Modern Of South Africa?
Sure, if by that you mean where the world’s wealthy come to play. “At its media preview last Friday, two of the first questions from South African journalists raised awkward points about Cape Town’s reputation as an unequal and inaccessible playground for the wealthy. The city is arguably one of the least African cities on the continent. And its apartheid geography has persisted, with blacks and whites still largely in their separate and unequal enclaves.”
Marian Horosko, Dancer And Historian Of Dance, Has Died At 92
The former editor of Dance Magazine, Horosko “was the only dancer who carried an old-fashioned typewriter with her on tour.”