“The prominent Russian art gallery owner Marat Guelman is being evicted from an exhibition space in Moscow after hosting a charity auction for political prisoners … Two days [after the event], Guelman was served with an eviction notice from the company that rents out the building housing his gallery at Moscow’s acclaimed Winzavod art center.”
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There’s A New Theatre Company In Detroit
“Hoping to become a cultural staple for the city, Detroit Public Theater is modeled after New York’s Public Theater (hence the name). Its mission: not only to foster new artists and dig into the community with theatre programming, but present challenging new works.”
How Safe Is Iran For Readers And Writers?
Ask Azar Nafisi, the woman who wrote “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” and she’ll tell you: “the truth of the matter is that the laws have remained the same, and there is no real security until there is real reform and real change. As you can tell from reading Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch, the human rights situation in Iran — the situation of journalists, writers, political prisoners — that also remains the same.”
Do We Seriously Still Need A ‘Women’s Prize’ For Fiction?
“What was it that meant that women’s work was not seen, somehow, as valuable as the writing of their male counterparts. Tradition; nervousness about a plurality of voices; a sense that some subjects were more important than others?”
Parallel, Opposite Lives For Ballet Dancers From The West And East
“Polunin has achieved everything that Womack dreams of. And for him, that is cause for despair.”
The (Pseudo) Scientific Belief In Projecting Our Thoughts Into The Universe
“The device is a cosmic ham radio—a direct, if fuzzy, line to the big Whatever that provides things when they are asked for in the right way. Radionics is also called psionics or psychotronics, and radionics machines ‘wishing machines.'”
Fort Worth Symphony Musicians Fight More Pay Cuts
FWSO president and CEO Amy Adkins, with the approval of the nonprofit’s board of directors, proposed cutting the concert season from 46 weeks to 43, decreasing artist fees for the Concerts in the Garden series by 25 percent, and eliminating three weeks of paid time off. The loss in wages would mean a nearly 23 percent loss in salary since 2010 once inflation is accounted for.
Big Changes At Once-Floundering, Now Thriving Oregon Ballet Theatre
Over the next two years, the company will be moving to new studios, selling its old building to retire all of its $1.8 million debt, expansion into the suburbs, and a summer outdoor series dedicated entirely to women choreographers – and, of course, the ballet-and-beer initiative.
Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia In Barcelona Begins Final Phase Of Construction
Remaining work on the great basilica, for which Antoni Gaudí laid the first stone in 1882, includes the west sacristy, the six central spires, and the Tower of Jesus. When complete, Sagrada Familia will be the tallest house of worship in Europe. (photos)
‘The Moth In The Flame’ – An Unpublished Short Story By Truman Capote
“Written for his high school newspaper, The Green Witch, in the early 1940s, … ‘The Moth in the Flame’ captures in a very short space the vast range of tumultuous emotions that spring from a distressing encounter.”