“Ballet West announced plans Monday to build a new center for dance while renovating the existing Capitol Theatre.” The facility, budgeted at $32million, “will include six studios connected to the Capitol Theatre, along with meeting and banquet space.”
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US Adds Visual Art to Cultural Diplomacy Arsenal
“[The] Obama administration is planning to expand its cultural diplomacy programs to include visual artists like painters and sculptors, who will be asked next year to create public art projects in 15 foreign countries. … The new program, known as smART Power, will be administered by the Bronx Museum of the Arts, which was selected from a dozen institutions to choose the artists.”
Chinese Censors Object to Semele Staging (They Hated the Donkey)
“On Sunday, it was the depiction of a sexually aroused, anatomically correct male donkey and references to capital punishment that nearly derailed an ambitious interpretation of the Handel opera Semele” imported from Brussels for the Beijing Music Festival.
No, the Sony Walkman Is Not Dead (Yet)
“Widely circulated rumors of the demise of the original-style Walkman player, which uses cassette tapes, seem to have stemmed from two words on the Japanese Sony Corp. site for the device. It said, ‘Production finished.’ But as it turns out, that meant only that the player would no longer be sold in its home country of Japan.”