“At this recently opened university – which was still young and free from historical traditions – artist/teachers including SoCal Light and Space art movement pioneers Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman and Ed Moses counseled students, employed curious teaching methods such as having classmates put crayons between their toes, collaborated with them on performance pieces, and even partied with them.”
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Printed Books Are In Absolutely No Danger
“A physical book is like eating a great meal in a beautiful restaurant with a fantastic view; an e-book is like eating that same meal from a takeout box on your lap in a basement.”
James Earl Jones And Cicely Tyson Are Still Trailblazers On Broadway
“A hilarious physical mismatch — Jones is 6-foot-2 and broad-shouldered, Tyson 5-foot-3 and thin — they are nevertheless equal players in both stage presence and historical significance.”
Bradley Cooper Vows To Reveal His Salary To Female Costars Before Filming
“‘I don’t know where it’s changing otherwise but that’s something that I could do,’ Cooper said. ‘Usually you don’t talk about the financial stuff, you have people. But you know what? It’s time to start doing that,’ he added.”
The (Soon To Be Way More Powerful) Producer Who Took On Matt Damon
“Point blank: Brown is the reason why the ‘Project Greenlight’ audience sees a black location manager, assistant director and production designer when it tunes in on Sunday nights. She was in charge of assembling the crew.”
Ottawa’s Opera Lyra Shuts Down Mid-Season
“In the end, the shortfall in cash flow meant the company could not continue to operate, he said. The board made the decision Tuesday evening, after much discussion, to shut the doors. The company was also still struggling with a debt of more than $500,000, which became increasingly hard to manage.”
Allegedly Fake Joan Mirós Trigger Complicated Trials in Turkey
In late 2013, an exhibition titled Miró in Istanbul was shut down halfway through its run when the artworks on view were denounced as fakes. The management company that staged the show, the university that hosted the exhibition, and the Joan Miró Foundation (which was never told about the show) all sued the gallerist who owns the works and rented then out. The trials are now beginning.
‘Come On Up, Sweetheart’: James Baldwin’s Letters To His Brother
“Between the late 1940s and the mid-1980s, he carried on an increasingly dense and complex correspondence with his youngest brother, David. Many of these letters survive – some 120 of them, amounting to about 70,000 words. They give an unprecedented picture of his life and work, an epistolary autobiography: they bristle and crackle with the trials, dangers, errors, mistakes, and triumphs of one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century.”
‘Why We’re Translating Shakespeare’ – Oregon Festival Director Defends Controversial Project
Bill Rauch: “The Play on! translations are not being commissioned because we despair that people will never understand the original language … Instead, the translation project is about creating a new body of work … By commissioning 36 playwrights and pairing them with dramaturgs to examine each of Shakespeare’s plays, we have the opportunity to delve more deeply into the language of the texts and to create companion pieces (not replacements) to the original texts.”
After A Summer Of Breaking Barriers, Misty Copeland Gets Back To Dance
“My entire career has been working and striving and proving, and it’s just exhausting. It’s so much more than just the work, which is exhausting in itself. I want to just enjoy this first season as a principal dancer and really just focus on that… So now I feel like I can actually sit back and kind of settle in to this position. That’s exciting.”