“This fleshly mortality became especially real to Wojnarowicz in the still-emerging AIDS crisis of the time. Thus, by necessity it is a deeply human and deeply religious artwork. Christianity itself has produced some of the most gruesome images of tortured, dying, suffering, and dead bodies, especially Jesus’ own body.”
Tag: 12.16.10
Spider-Man Opening Delayed Yet Again
The producers of the U2/Julie Taymor musical have decided to postpone the show’s official opening from Jan. 11 to February. “[The] delay is intended to provide more time for the creators to stage a new final number, make further rewrites to the dialogue and consider adding and cutting scenes.”
Rambert Dance Co. Gets £7M for New HQ
“The Rambert Dance Company’s dream of a state-of-the-art home on the South Bank has moved a huge jump closer thanks to a £7million Lottery boost.”
BBC to Discuss Possible Funding of More UK Orchestras
“The BBC said yesterday it would be willing to hold talks with other arts bodies about the future funding of some of the UK’s best known orchestras as they face up to government-imposed spending cuts.”
Pledge Drive to Bring Scottsboro Boys Back to Broadway
“Undertaking an unusual poll-cum-pledge-drive among theatergoers, the producers of the Broadway musical The Scottsboro Boys, which closed on Sunday due to weak ticket sales, are asking fans and others to commit on the show’s Web site to buying $99 tickets if the musical were to re-open on Broadway this spring.”
Louisville Ballet CEO Abruptly Quits
“The Louisville Ballet’s executive director Dwight Hutton is resigning from the position effective Dec. 31 … [He] declined to comment on his decision to leave the position and return to Seattle, where his wife and two daughters live.”
Enrique Morente, 67, ‘Father of Nuevo Flamenco’
“To the end of his life he remained a master of cante jondo (‘deep song’), the most traditional of the traditional flamenco styles. … [Yet he] often fused the genre with an unorthodox spate of musical styles, including jazz, rock, classical, Afro-Cuban, American popular song and Bulgarian a cappella.”
The Scales of History: Depicting Lady Justice Through the Ages
“She has strode forth naked and clothed, shoeless and shod, sword wielding and weaponless. She has been accompanied by a dog (for fidelity), a snake (for hatred) and a whole menagerie of other sidekicks that would befuddle the modern courthouse visitor.” (She’s pretty much always held a scale, though.)
NPR Reports Juan Williams Firing Didn’t Affect Fund-Raising
“Yet after an initial flurry of mostly angry e-mails and calls in the wake of the Oct. 20 firing of Williams, the controversy waned quickly and has all but disappeared, station managers say.”
Hide/Seek Smithsonian Controversy Gets Complicated Say Curators
“It was clear that neither Ward nor Katz wants the Portrait Gallery to suffer the weight of the controversy, which is looking more and more like a referendum on Clough’s tenure.”