Is Scotland Yard Going To Close Its Famous Art Crime Unit?
Scotland Yard looks set to close its Art and Antiques Unit, according to a former head. Its three detectives have been reassigned to help the Metropolitan Police’s investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire, in west London, which killed more than 80 people on 14 June. … [Read More]
What’s A Snipe? If You Go To The Movies, You’ve Seen One (And You Probably Did What It Told You)
Here's a little history of those promos and announcements that run before the trailers, like Let's All Go to the Lobby, the classic animated short in which the singing-and-dancing popcorn, soda and candy encourage us to go buy snacks at the concession stand. … [Read More]
How The Information Age Became The Information Age
"It was Claude Shannon who made the final synthesis, who defined the concept of information and effectively solved the problem of noise. It was Shannon who was credited with gathering the threads into a new science. But he had important predecessors at Bell Labs, two engineers who had shaped his thinking since he discovered their work as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, who were the first to consider how information might be put on a scientific footing, and whom Shannon’s landmark paper singled out as pioneers." … [Read More]
Not Enough Good Roles For Actresses? A New 36-Woman Theatre Company Is Addressing That
Following 12 months of workshops and training for the participants, the London-based project, called Dangerous Spaces, will commission half a dozen playwrights to write scripts for six actresses each. Those scripts will be produced, along with an all-female Shakespeare staging, in the 2018-19 season. … [Read More]
There Is No Money In American Theatre. So How Is It Going To Continue?
"At a time when funding for the arts is in absolute peril, how will we inspire the next generation of theater artists to still see the theater as an art form worth dedicating their lives to? How can theaters keep the focus of not only their audiences, but now their artists too? Perhaps playwrights could bounce seamlessly between stage and screen. But as so many are finding themselves fulfilled both artistically and monetarily by other mediums, will the theater become what it often does for successful TV and film actors, something they return to here and there when their shooting schedule allows it?" … [Read More]
This May Be The Most Excruciating Celebrity Profile Of All Time
In which Robert Pattinson tries extremely, breathtakingly hard to get through an interview without revealing anything (except about dealing with paparazzi). … [Read More]
The Netflix Of Movie Theatres? New Pass Gets You In To Theatres For $10/Month
In layman’s terms, that means for just under $10 a month you can see an “unlimited” number of movies at any cinema near you, although the company clarifies that the maximum number of movies you can see per day is one. … [Read More]
2 Friends From ABT + 1 New Festival In The Mountains = 1 New Ballet
"Isabella Boylston doesn't remember the time, years ago, when she and Gemma Bond tried to choreograph a ballet together. Ms. Bond does, though. 'I got so bossy,' Ms. Bond recalled. 'I was like, 'Isabella, this isn't going to work.'' But now they've found a way to be creative together - and circumstances in which they both can act a little bossy." … [Read More]
Study: Increased Diversity On TV Shows Increases Acceptance
The increasing presence of racial and ethnic minority characters on comedies and dramas has been linked to a gradual decline in racial prejudice. Newly published research suggests this welcome dynamic also applies to the transgender community. … [Read More]
At Last, Philly Gets A Public Statue Of An African-American
"Next month, ... educator, activist, and ballplayer Octavius V. Catto will be honored by the city where he was murdered with a full-blown sculptural commemoration in bronze and granite on the southern apron of City Hall. Amazing to say, Catto will then become the first named African-American to be memorialized on public land in [Philadelphia's] history." … [Read More]
Yayoi Kusama Built Herself An Entire Museum While We Weren’t Looking
The five-story building in Tokyo's Shinjuku district was actually completed in 2014, with installation going on since. The museum, which opens October 1, will have rotating exhibits changing twice a year, a separate floor for the Infinity Rooms, and a library/archive; timed tickets will cost ¥1,000 (just over $9.00). … [Read More]
What Michiko Kakutani Meant For The Times, And Where Its Books Coverage Is Headed Without Her
Boris Kachka investigates how the notoriously publicity-shy critic worked and what she's like as a person (no mean feat, that), and he looks at how changes in both the Times approach to her beat and her own interests seem to have led to her decision to take a buyout. … [Read More]
Michael Moore Puts His Broadway Audience On Buses And Takes Them To Protest At Trump Tower
"Like any Broadway spectacle, the excursion was a splice of authentic emotion and fabrication. It seemed equal part an earnest bid to get people off the sidelines and into a picket line and equal part showbiz hoopla aimed at bolstering a show that opened last week to mixed reviews and that has not yet caught fire with ticket buyers." … [Read More]
Unknown Bootlegs From Bob Dylan’s 1965 Tour Surface – And They Were Made By Allen Ginsberg
"With some interruptions, they document two Dylan shows from 1965, near the beginning of that fateful tour: one in San Francisco on September 11, 1965, and the other in San Jose from the following evening. As you might expect, the performances are enough to knock you out, but the sound quality is up and down." (Alas, they've been removed from YouTube.) Andy Cush tells the story. … [Read More]
‘Newfields’: Indianapolis Museum Of Art Rebrands Its Grounds And The Many Things On Them (Because People Don’t Know They’re With The Museum)
"During springtime, the Indianapolis Museum of Art welcomed you to friendlier weather with thousands of color-drenched blooms on its outdoor campus. A beer garden and, later on, 18 holes of mini-golf designed by artists kept you coming back. Starting in mid-November, ... the museum's gardens will be illuminated by millions of lights that dance along to the music of the Nutcracker Suite. You'll have your choice of drinks and firepits to roast s'mores. These are the type of cultural experiences Indy residents are drawn to. It's just that when it comes to perception, market research shows people don't necessarily connect them to the IMA." … [Read More]
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Executive Director – West Michigan Symphony
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Barbra Streisand: On the Couch
Look inside the heart and soul of Barbra Streisand. Read Psychoanalyst Alma Bond's historic novel revealing the hidden depths of Barbra's character as no one but a psychoanalyst could do. See the … [Read More]
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Director of Programming – The Joyce Theater, New York City
The Joyce Theater, located in the heart of Chelsea in New York City, is among the world’s best presentation venues for dance. With a 472-seat house, the theater was established by dancers for dance in … [Read More]
Center Theatre Group: Junior Publicist Position Open
We entertain. We create. We engage. We inspire. As one of the nation’s most influential nonprofit theatre companies, Center Theatre Group provides the broadest range of theatrical entertainment in the … [Read More]
What the NYC Cultural Plan Means for the Dance Community…
"While there is nothing specifically dance-related in the plan, many dance companies and artists within marginalized and lower-income communities stand to benefit from increased funding. Here are the key takeaways." … [Read More]
Thieves Are Stealing Paris’s Favorite Street Mosaics (And It Seems To Be A Custom-Order Job)…
About 15 works by the street artist known as Invader have been removed from the walls of buildings by two men in yellow jackets who claim to be city workers (and then drive off in a Mercedes). … [Read More]
Opera Superagent Bruce Zemsky Dead At 62…
The co-founder of Zemsky Green Artist Management worked with some of the leading opera singers in the world today, among them Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros, Brandon Jovanovich, and Pretty Yende. … [Read More]
Too Many Accountants In The Arts World Are Making It ‘Frightened’ And ‘Risk-Averse,’ Says Top UK Director…
Dominic Dromgoole, who spent a decade as artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe and oversaw that company's worldwide tour of Hamlet: "Institutionally I think we have a problem that we have possibly over-stacked our governance areas with people from the world of ... accountancy. They are entirely honourable and entirely nice people, but I think from the moment they begin working on things they're always overly calculating risk and overly worried about danger. Their inclination is to say no to any venture that they can't absolutely 100 per cent future-proof, ... so that now you have an element of fear within a lot of organisations that doesn't need to be there." … [Read More]
Bitter Novelist Whose Play Got Bad Reviews Says Critics Shouldn’t Get Free Tickets And That Theatre World Despises Him…
Anthony Horowitz, author of the Alex Rider teen spy novels and some Sherlock Holmes and James Bond sequels, and whose comedy Dinner with Saddam had a less-than-successful run at London's Menier Chocolate Factory in 2015, went on quite the rant at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. … [Read More]
Hal Prince To Recreate Original ‘Evita’ Production For World Tour…
The staging makes its debut in October in Johannesburg, followed (so far) by runs in Cape Town, Tokyo, and Sydney, where Opera Australia will present it at the Opera House. Prince is said to be 'determined' to bring the project to Broadway, though no such arrangements have been announced. … [Read More]
How Brick And Mortar Bookstores Are Competing With Online…
"In reality, a bookstore is a really unique kind of space where people from different walks of life can cross paths. I mean, it's a very sort of democratic kind of product, and it's kind of a space where people can come in and start to have conversations. And that's the kind of space we want to be." … [Read More]
“Hamilton” Tries New Plan To Fight Bots, Scalpers…
“This is a new effort to put tickets into the hands of theatergoers at regular prices,” said Jeffrey Seller, the lead producer of “Hamilton.” “We’ll always be fighting the resellers because their incentive to keep trying is so powerful. Are we making progress? Yes. But is it foolproof? Not at all.” … [Read More]
Canadians Are Still Ditching Cable TV – Only In Smaller Numbers…
Canada's biggest TV providers lost almost a quarter fewer customers in the first half of 2017 as they did the same time last year, a new report shows. … [Read More]
Museums In Talks To Return Benin Bronzes To Africa…
The British Museum will take part in a European summit to discuss the return of art seized from the Benin kingdom, now part of southern Nigeria, by a British punitive expedition in 1897 as “reparations” after it defied the British empire by imposing customs duties. … [Read More]