http://www.artsjournal.com/people.shtml Copyright 2009 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:38:06 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/elisabeth_sders.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/elisabeth_sders.shtml people Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:04:59 -0800 "Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation 'The Gates' and other large scale 'wrapping' projects around the globe with her husband Christo," has died "at a New York hospital from complications of a brain aneurysm."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/jeanneclaude_ch.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/jeanneclaude_ch.shtml people Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:28:30 -0800 He was readmitted when a "chronic infection" developed after his prostate cancer surgery. "His spokesmen said last month that the cancer was in its early stages and he hoped to return to work before the end of the year. But an update on his website said he now hoped to be back in the New Year."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/lloyd_webber_ba.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/lloyd_webber_ba.shtml people Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:37:40 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/john_irving_exp.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/john_irving_exp.shtml people Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:07:27 -0800 The longtime basketball star has made rap records, acted in film and TV, worked as a reserve police officer and earned an MBA. Now, "[m]oonlighting for the first time as a curator, O'Neal is overseeing 'Size DOES Matter,' an exhibition on the theme of scale in contemporary art coming in February to New York's nonprofit Flag Art Foundation."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/shaquille_oneal.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/shaquille_oneal.shtml people Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:47:15 -0800 "Planning your next vacation and don't want to miss Lord Byron's final resting place? Want to see Charles Baudelaire's last stop? With this handy website [www.poetsgraves.co.uk] you can search by poet's name or by location, get maps to the gravesite, read a sample of the deceased's work or a brief but informative biographical note."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/find_your_favor.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/find_your_favor.shtml people Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:42:10 -0800 The oral historian and radio host applied for a job with the FBI in the 1930s, but he looked like a communist to the bureau, which started a paper trail on him in 1945. "His file ends in 1990, when agents clipped a Wall Street Journal article quoting his reaction to financier Michael Milken's junk-bond scandal."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/fbi_spent_45_ye.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/fbi_spent_45_ye.shtml people Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:31:32 -0800 The British actor played Robert McCall, the title character of the CBS detective series, from 1985 to 1989. He also starred in the films The Wicker Man and Breaker Morant.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/edward_woodward.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/edward_woodward.shtml people Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:09:42 -0800 "Where hard-line Abstract Expressionists shunned figural elements in their work, Mr. Kriesberg used them lavishly. As a result, he was often called a Figurative Expressionist; the term applied to midcentury Expressionists whose work was not strictly abstract."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/irving_kriesber.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/irving_kriesber.shtml people Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:59:46 -0800 He covered music and dance for the paper as a staff critic from 1960 to 1986 and later as a freelancer. "From 1963 to 1965, when he was the chief dance critic of The Times, he championed avant-garde groups, often to the consternation of mainstream ensembles, and advocated for multimedia presentations and other innovations."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/allen_hughes_87.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/allen_hughes_87.shtml people Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:52:56 -0800 "O'Connor joined The Times as a television critic in 1971 and retired in 1997. His tenure coincided with sweeping industry changes, beginning with the advent of the mini-series."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/longtime_nyt_tv.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/longtime_nyt_tv.shtml people Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:54:48 -0800 "What was it about Tatum that kept him in relative obscurity? Part of the problem, I suspect, is that his personality was almost entirely opaque. We're told that he liked baseball and drank Pabst Blue Ribbon beer by the quart, but little else is known for sure about his private life."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/why_art_tatum_w.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/why_art_tatum_w.shtml people Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:19:11 -0800 "According to Albee, the problem is that the world of theatre has changed in ways he disapproves of. He is especially irked by the increasing importance of a director's vision, which is now understood to be just as valuable as what is being directed. In interviews and public speeches, Albee has been vocal about his distaste for those who neglect his strict stage directions."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/edward_albee_th.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/edward_albee_th.shtml people Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:10:23 -0800 "There's the myth he sold his soul to the devil to create his haunting guitar intonations. There's the dispute over where he died after his alleged poisoning by a jealous man in 1938. Three different markers claim to be the site of his demise. His birthplace, however, has been verified."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/bluesman_robert.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/bluesman_robert.shtml people Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:45:35 -0800 "Detroit Symphony Orchestra music director Leonard Slatkin has canceled his appearances with the orchestra during the next two weeks on the advice of doctors following a heart attack he suffered on Nov. 1 in Rotterdam in the Netherlands."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/slatkin_cancels.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/slatkin_cancels.shtml people Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:12:07 -0800 "Late last month four teens were cited for disorderly conduct in American Fork, Utah, after repeatedly (and, some would argue, hilariously) rapping their order at a McDonald's drive-through."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/teens_get_polic.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/teens_get_polic.shtml people Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:52:27 -0800 He was "an inveterate quipmeister whose stand-up comedy persona, an incompetent magician known as the Amazing Ballantine or Ballantine the Great, predated and influenced the antic characters of Steve Martin and others." He was also known as "the scheming, profiteering seaman Lester Gruber on the television series McHale's Navy."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_amazing_car.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_amazing_car.shtml people Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:47:39 -0800 A "rough-and-ready, red-haired Scot," Campbell was a mainstay of Tyrone Guthrie's companies: the Old Vic, the Stratford Festival in Ontario (where he acted and directed for 25 seasons), and the Guthrie in Minneapolis, where he served as artistic director during the 1960s.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/douglas_campbel.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/douglas_campbel.shtml people Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:35:12 -0800 The photographer whose very name symbolizes the fusion of beefcake and art spent three years working with ballet's current reigning heartthrob. Roberto Bolle: An Athlete In Tights "features writing from Bolle, as well as texts by Elsa Morante and illustrations by Paul Cadmus and Jeremiah Goodman."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/bruce_weber_pho.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/bruce_weber_pho.shtml people Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:18:55 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/jim_carreys_sui.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/jim_carreys_sui.shtml people Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:58:53 -0800 How the country music legend, at the peak of his fame, took up the Native American cause, battled the music industry over his album of "Indian protest ballads" (which some DJs called "un-American"), and sang one of those ballads literally to Richard Nixon's face.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_bitter_tear.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_bitter_tear.shtml people Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:48:59 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/darcey_bussell_2.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/darcey_bussell_2.shtml people Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:37:24 -0800 "A British art curator and his daughter have been found dead of multiple stab wounds alongside an injured toddler at a million-dollar home in Sydney's affluent eastern suburbs." Police "found the bodies of Nick Waterlow, 68, and his daughter Chloe, 37, a cookbook author, on Monday night." Nick Waterlow's mentally ill son is said to be the suspect.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/british_curator.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/british_curator.shtml people Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:51:18 -0800 Once the most glamorous of classical guitarists (and a former belle of Pierre Trudeau), Boyd has come through a painful divorce, a vida loca in Miami and a battle with focal dystonia to arrive at a new career as a singer-songwriter.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/abandoning_albn.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/abandoning_albn.shtml people Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:15:58 -0800 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