All you need is a high-quality cable subscription or high-speed internet and a subscription to HBO’s standalone service, and you too can see that “we may balk at seeing the economy of post-war Italy, which operated under quite different conditions, as an object lesson in the failings of capitalism for Americans today. But the way capital works in the neighborhood’s marketplaces should look familiar in many ways.”
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When Puccini Visited New York
He visited twice, and though he shaped New York opera, he was also shaped by the city. “Puccini’s New York visits were filled with incident and intrigue, success and frustration. They are reminders that golden ages may not always sparkle as brightly to those who live through them.”
Jerry Ohlinger, Whose Crammed Manhattan Shop Was A Movie Paraphernalia-Lover’s Paradise, Has Died At 75
The fate of his collection remains embroiled in legal controversy after his death, but his “Movie Material Store is said to be New York’s last film memorabilia shop of a certain type: an overstuffed place where customers can come and talk cinema but might need help finding what they’re after.”
What Will Michael B. Jordan Do Next?
The man who made the villain in Black Panther deeply attractive and is now starring in Rocky sequel Creed II isn’t exactly resting on his laurels. “‘I thought once I got enough money to buy a house and a car that I would be happy,’ Jordan said. ‘But why do I still feel unsatisfied? Why am I so hungry?'”
Glenn Lowry Will Continue As Director At MoMA Through 2025
Wait, what? Lowry was expected to retire after the new extension opened next year. And: “The extension comes as a surprise, since MoMA had long had a policy that ‘chief curators and other senior managers’ should retire at 65. In a 2014 interview with The New York Times, Mr. Lowry said he planned to respect the rule. ‘We have a policy of senior staff at this institution retiring at or around 65, and I don’t intend to break that policy,’ he said. ‘I’ll do my best between now and then.'”
Identification, Please
Read any “quantifying” study of success in the arts with a skeptical eye.
Opera Often Needs Choreographers, Not Just For Opera Ballets But For The Principals And Chorus
That’s not without its challenges: “Directing singers is a very particular art: Try to make them move too precisely to the music, and some of them look like unmotivated marionettes, the more so if they have to share the stage with dancers.”
FilmStruck Is (Almost) Dead; Long Live The New Criterion Collection Channel
OK, FilmStruck will soon be no more, and everyone who loves movies is pretty angry about that. But the Criterion Channel has decided – probably because of thousands of tweets, right? or the more than 50,000 people who signed a Change.org petition – to launch its own streaming service in the spring. “Like FilmStruck, Criterion Channel will have its own supplemental programming for movie buffs, featuring cinema luminaries and behind-the-scenes footage.”
A Playwright Who Keeps The Wolves At Bay With Instagram Glamour (And Hard Work)
Patricia Ione Lloyd is acutely aware both of image and of the limits of what image can do in a world that’s not as kind as it should be to queer women of color. “The stories that people tell themselves about black women or black queer women or poor women, those are myths, but people still hold onto them. I’m really trying to tell myself different stories about myself that can help me move through the world in a more powerful way.”
Sometimes, The Spirit Awards And The Oscars Match – But Likely Not This Year
Why? Big budget Oscar bait, basically.