“At Carnegie Hall, which has featured on its three stages such varied musicians as Duke Ellington, Bob Dylan and the Berlin Philharmonic, only Artistic and Executive Director Clive Gillinson makes more than the stagehands.”
Tag: 10.20.09
Bringing Performing Arts To The Suburbs: A Success Story
Three years ago, on Chicago’s North Shore, an old movie theatre was in danger of being turned into a furniture store. “To prevent that from happening, and to try to bring some cutting-edge culture to the picturesque suburb, a few North Shore dreamers pooled their resources and dramatically reinvented the place” as a cultural center. It’s working.
Richard Rogers Displays His Humanist Side
The West London cancer center for which Richard Rogers won his second Stirling Prize Saturday night “shows Rogers’s critics, such as the Prince of Wales, that his architecture, at its best, can do human-scaled and even vaguely traditional, that it’s about more than just machines and modernism.”
Feminist Artist Nancy Spero Dies At 83
“Ms. Spero, who always viewed art as inseparable from life, developed a distinctive kind of political work. Polemical but symbolic, it combined drawing and painting as well as craft-based techniques like collage and printmaking seldom associated with traditional Western notions of high art and mastery.”
Motion Picture Association Of America Chief To Step Down
The departure of MPAA head Dan Glickman, who succeeded Jack Valenti in 2004, “was not unexpected given the behind-the-scenes expressions of discontent with him in Hollywood. It now formally opens one of Washington’s most-high profile and coveted lobbying posts.”