“The Enchanted Pose – which depicted two identical female nudes standing side by side – disappeared without trace having received critical acclaim in 1927 … Now it has emerged that the artist himself cut up the canvas and painted over the pieces.”
Tag: 10.03.13
San Francisco Ballet Reaches Agreement With Dancers’ Union
“On Wednesday, the dancers voted ‘significantly’ in favor of accepting the Ballet’s offer, said Alan Gordon, the executive director of the American Guild of Musical Artists. The company’s planned New York tour, which includes performances at Lincoln Center, will go ahead as planned, he and Ballet officials said.”
Slavoj Zizek On Hollywood, Ideology, And Family Relationships
“Ideology in Hollywood? You don’t have to look for it, because it always finds you.”
T. Coraghessan Boyle: “Write What You Don’t Know And Find Something Out”
“I don’t know what a story will be until it begins to unfold, … and it might begin with the exploration of a subject or a theme or a recollection or something as random as my discovery that the wild creatures in Tierra del Fuego were going blind as a result of the hole in the ozone layer that opens up there annually or that the Shetland Islands is the windiest place on earth.”
UK National Theatre Broke Income Record In 2012-13
According to its annual report, the NT’s £87 million incme was £7 million higher than the previous year. “Of this total, 59% was from box office receipts from both its South Bank base and its tours and West End transfers. Funding from Arts Council England represented 20%..”
Norman Foster Will Probably Not Return To Pushkin Museum Project
“Moscow’s chief architect, Sergei Kuznetsov, told Archi.ru, a Russian architecture news website, that while ‘the question of Norman Foster’s participation’ in the expansion of the museum is still being discussed, he admitted ‘chances are slim that [Foster] will continue to work’ on the project,” which he quit in August.
How Uncertainty Is Killing The Detroit Institute Of Art
“Board members worry about a prolonged hiatus in gifts of art and money as donors wait out the bankruptcy case.”
The Real Problem With E-Books
“The real problem with ebooks is that they’re more “e” than book, so an entirely different set of rules govern what someone — from an individual to a library — can and can’t do with them compared to physical books, especially when it comes to pricing.”