http://www.artsjournal.com/people.shtml Copyright 2009 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:41:28 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/when_akram_khan.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/when_akram_khan.shtml people Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:36:10 -0800 "Considered one of 20th-century Spain's most distinguished intellectuals, Mr. Ayala was routinely mentioned as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Besides being a novelist, he was a poet, critic, essayist, lawyer and academic sociologist. Much of his work was banned in Spain during the Franco era."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/francisco_ayala.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/francisco_ayala.shtml people Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:19:16 -0800 He was "an international star in the rival Ballet Russe companies who stood out for his matinee-idol looks and bold stage presence and who later became one of American ballet's respected teachers."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/george_zoritch.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/george_zoritch.shtml people Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:05:56 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/susan_graham_in.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/susan_graham_in.shtml people Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:56:50 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/ayn_rand_is_one.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/ayn_rand_is_one.shtml people Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:27:10 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/woodys_account.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/woodys_account.shtml people Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:08:17 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/claude_lvistrau.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/claude_lvistrau.shtml people Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:27:17 -0800 "In what is perhaps the first project of its kind, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has put English-language translations of 902 of Vincent van Gogh's personal letters on line." Vangoghletters.org "allows you to search them by keyword, correspondent, city and more."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/van_goghs_corre.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/van_goghs_corre.shtml people Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:25:32 -0800 He was "renowned for taking large-scale productions to small towns and cities and festooning the shows with headliners like Mae West, Gloria Swanson and Burt Reynolds."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/impresario_john.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/impresario_john.shtml people Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:15:57 -0800 Dick Cavett, in an epilogue to a series of online columns remembering the late actor, reveals that the widely praised slow-motion actions Burton employed in his 1980 Broadway run of Camelot "were in part bred of pain." He needed, and subsequently had, a gruesome operation called a laminectomy.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/richard_burtons.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/richard_burtons.shtml people Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:07:27 -0800 The veteran conductor, currently music director of the Detroit Symphony, experienced chest pains while leading the Rotterdam Philharmonic on Sunday and collapsed in his dressing room afterwards. He is now recovering in a Dutch hospital following an emergency angioplasty.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/leonard_slatkin_4.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/leonard_slatkin_4.shtml people Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:48:07 -0800 Swedish writer Stieg Larsson, who was "largely unknown before his sudden death at 50, has become one of the most successful writers in the world," with an estate estimated to exceed £20 million. "But because he and the architect Eva Gabrielsson, his partner of 32 years, never married and he died without making a will, the proceeds have defaulted to his blood relations...."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/stieg_larssons.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/stieg_larssons.shtml people Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:47:17 -0800 "His long-prodigious intellect and his perennial ability to combine dramatic political agitation with a deep sense of emotional need has deepened into an acute awareness of human frailty. Many of those close to him say he is now doing his very best work."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/tony_kushner_at.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/tony_kushner_at.shtml people Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:33:53 -0800 "The dispute -- over how to divide foreign royalties -- is spelled out in lawsuits in separate Los Angeles courts. In a Superior Court case that could be titled "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," the trust that controls lyricist Ira Gershwin's estate is suing Warner/Chappell Music, one of the giants of song publishing."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/gershwin_heirs.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/gershwin_heirs.shtml people Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:52:09 -0800 "As postwar America sprouted suburban malls, urban parks, corporate compounds and federal urban renewal projects, Mr. Halprin helped forge a new, sharper style of landscape architecture, often as dependent on concrete as on vegetation. Places he shaped include Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco; Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis; a sequence of urban spaces with dazzling fountains in Portland, Ore.; a park atop a freeway in Seattle; and large plazas in Los Angeles."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/landscape_artis.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/landscape_artis.shtml people Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:59:58 -0800 "The video nabbed nearly 6 million views on YouTube and prompted the airline to promise it would do better. But when Carroll flew into Denver International Airport on Sunday, he learned that United had lost his bag. What's worse, Carroll was in Colorado to do a keynote speech for a group of hundreds of customer-service executives."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/united_airlines.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/united_airlines.shtml people Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:16:35 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/louisa_may_alco.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/louisa_may_alco.shtml people Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:58:47 -0800 "On Wednesday ... under pressure from human rights activists and with the acquiescence of [Federico] García Lorca's family, Spanish authorities began exhuming six mass graves in Alfacar. The opening of García Lorca's grave is the latest and most high profile effort by Spain to come to terms with its ugly past."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/garcia_lorcas_g.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/garcia_lorcas_g.shtml people Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:53:31 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/photographer_ro.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/photographer_ro.shtml people Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:05:21 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/when_woody_met.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/when_woody_met.shtml people Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:32:17 -0800 "Michael Philippi, a gifted lighting designer whose roots went to the very core of the Chicago theater and who collaborated with Goodman artistic director Robert Falls on his most important projects, collapsed and died Tuesday afternoon on a sidewalk in downtown Chicago."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/lighting_design_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/lighting_design_1.shtml people Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:19:07 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/cecilia_bartoli_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/cecilia_bartoli_1.shtml people Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:48:11 -0800 The late-life meeting between estranged geniuses W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten in Alan Bennett's new play, "The Habit of Art," never took place in real life. Nonetheless, "Bennett's brilliant conjecture ... leads us straight to the heart of one of the most gripping and symbolic relationships in 20th-century culture."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/the_tortured_fr.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/the_tortured_fr.shtml people Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:25:30 -0800 "He left his mark at all scales, from the crafting of San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square in the 1960s to the transformation of the 52-acre base of Yosemite Falls that was completed in 2005." Charles Birnbaum, president of the Cultural Landscape Foundation, called him "the single most influential landscape architect of the postwar years."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/landscape_archi.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/landscape_archi.shtml people Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:26:48 -0800 "The belief among some in his field that opportunities automatically get narrower after such candor is to him mythology. 'I'm living proof the opposite is true. You get more self-confidence. You don't have that bit of dishonesty,' he says, adding that acting 'is about disguise. But it's not about lying.'"... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/ian_mckellen_sa.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/ian_mckellen_sa.shtml people Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:11:14 -0800