The walk-up weekday program ended last Friday, but many of the people lined up on the plaza Monday morning didn’t realize that they now needed passes. Rather than turn them away, the museum’s staff distributed passes starting about 10:20 a.m.
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Instagram And YouTube Are Messing With Young Ballerinas’ Heads, Warns Diana Vishneva
“When I was young we simply didn’t have time for anything other than ballet. Now kids spend hours on social media. And you see that immediately on stage. They don’t know about timing or have a sense of movement. It has to happen right away. They want everything now.”
TicketMaster Sued In California For Abetting Scalping
The suit’s plaintiff is listed as one Allen Lee, but the class potentially includes, “All end-user purchasers in the United States who purchased a secondary market Ticketmaster ticket from a professional reseller participating in Ticketmaster’s resale partner program and/or using TradeDesk or a similar system operated by defendants, such as EventInventory or eimarketplace.”
What The Opening Of The Fall Season Tells Us About The State Of TV
It’s not that America doesn’t still watch a lot of traditional broadcast TV: Even the least-watched network shows last week will end up with bigger audiences than almost everything on cable. The problem is, returning shows continued to bleed viewers — particularly compared to audience levels of just a couple years ago.
Gallerist Phyllis Kind, Who Created A Market For ‘Outsider’ Artists, Dead At 85
“What started as a print shop devoted to Old Masters quickly became, under Phyllis’s leadership …, a hotbed for vanguard art in [Chicago], promoting artists — grouped together under the names the Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists — who were mining comic books, Pop art, and Surrealism to make graphically punchy, bawdy, psychedelic, and psychologically charged pictures.”
‘She Changed My Life. Twice.” — Jerry Saltz Pays Tribute To Phyllis Kind
“[She was] possessor of one of the sharpest bullshit detectors I’ve ever experienced.” Saltz recounts two occasions from his ne’er-do-well younger days in which Kind got him to straighten up and fly right. (And it kinda worked, for a while.)
Irvin Mayfield’s New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Misdirected, Misspent Public Funds: Audit
The report fleshes out details of the alleged activities for which trumpeter Mayfield and orchestra CEO Ronald Markham face wire fraud, money laundering, and other criminal charges. The audit found that Mayfield spent $28,000 of NOJO money at the Ritz-Carleton in New York and that he and Markham diverted earmarked state and city money into NOJO payroll and operations.
This May Be the Best Monument to Caesar Augustus
Reputedly, the last public words of Caesar Augustus were ‘Behold, I found Rome of clay, and leave her to you of marble.’ Augustus also left us a magnificent, exquisitely carved cameo whose double-narrative all but deifies him.
Memories are made of this
Even as he reaches the age at which names become harder and harder to recall, Terry finds that memories of long ago remain powerfully specific: pop songs of the 1950s, commercial jingles of the ’60s, candy from a vacation destination — and the surprisingly modernist mid-century design of Howard Johnson’s motel rooms.
Monday Recommendation: Rob Bargad And Others
Reunion 7Tet (Rob Bargad and others), A Field Of You (Barnette)
Once a year, a band of musicians who go back a long way together gather for a two-night gig at a Manhattan jazz club. Last time around, they made a side trip to a recording studio.