“12 Years a Slave and American Hustle emerged as movie awards front-runners on Thursday, as each picked up seven Golden Globe nominations, including best picture nods in their respective categories, just a day after being nominated for top prizes from Hollywood’s acting guild.”
Archives for December 12, 2013
Surprises And Snubs In The 2014 Golden Globe Noms
“The Golden Globes have a long and often amusing reputation for nomination-morning howlers. But [this year], there was no Tourist, no Burlesque, no Salmon Fishing in the Yemen … Yet that didn’t mean the snubs and surprises, the jaw-droppers and the head-scratchers, weren’t there. Here are six of the biggest.”
’12 Years a Slave’ Leads Screen Actors Guild Nominations
In an unusually good year for African-descended actors, 12 Years, “based on the real-life story of Solomon Northup, garnered nominations in four of SAG’s five film categories, including the organization’s top award, best ensemble cast.” Lee Daniels’ The Butler earned a further three nods.
Will David Sedaris Or Stephen Colbert Finally Win A Grammy This Year?
Drag Queens, Soul Sisters And A Proto-Carrie: 2014 Grammy Noms For Musical Theater
Classical Grammy Nominations 2014: An Esa-Pekka Year?
Salonen (or his work) is nominated in three different categories. Other nominees include the familiar (Rattle, DiDonato, Bartoli; Wagner, Beethoven, Pärt), those we should know better (Lutoslawski, Palestrina; Maria João Pires, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir), the up-and-coming (2013 Pulitzer winner Caroline Shaw; New York Polyphony), the little-known (Leonardo Vinci, not to be confused with that mirror-writing Mona Lisa guy), and the beleaguered (Osmo and the Minnesotans).
Upstarts Upset Chick Corea In 2014 Grammy Jazz Nominations
How Tech Design Dictates Our Culture
Pew Poll: Americans LOVE Their Public Libraries
How Stores Use Music To Make You Want To Shop More
Is There Such A Thing As A “Global” Art Aesthetic?
Rethinking The Idea Of Leonard Bernstein
“There’s the Lenny problem: Is he for real or is he an act? Do we love him or do we want to kick him in the ass? Is his heart only on his sleeve, or is there another one inside him? And do those of us who grew up with him in all his avatars respond to him the same way as those coming to him for the first time, with no history and perhaps no expectations?”
Detroit Institute Of Arts Joins Talks For Control Of Its Art
“The Detroit Institute of Arts embraced publicly, for the first time, the broad outline of a federally mediated deal that would protect its art from sale and spin off the museum from city ownership into an independent nonprofit. The deal would raise roughly $500 million from a consortium of national and local charitable foundations and funnel the money into retiree pensions on behalf of the value of the art at the DIA.”
NYU’s War On Architecture
Hey TicketMaster – Time To Rethink Those Tickets!
Alex Ross on The Minnesota Orchestra: Words Fail
What The Choice Of The Kennedy Center’s Next President Says About The Kennedy Center
In Year Without Concerts, Minnesota Orchestra Management Spent $13M, Lost $1.1M
The Case For The Serial Comma, Made In One Screenshot
Judge Tosses Booksellers’ Suit Against Publishers, Amazon Over Kindle
Digital Language Death (Yes, It’s A Thing)
Iceland’s State Broadcaster Faces Massive Cutbacks
Hitting That Snooze Button Will Only Make It Worse, You Know
Tom Krause, 79, Bass-Baritone
Richard Nelson’s Apple Family Plays To Be Filmed For Broadcast
“Richard Nelson’s critically acclaimed Apple Family plays, which are running in repertory at the Public Theater through Sunday, will be recorded for television by WNET, the PBS station on Channel 13 in New York, for broadcast at a future date, the Public announced on Wednesday.”
