Yasmin Williams, whose email to new Kennedy Center president Ric Grenell got a notoriously vicious response, performed there last week. Shortly before curtain, she and staffers learned that Grenell’s office had reserved 50 tickets for members of the gay Republican group; they booed and hackled for 15 minutes before moving elsewhere. - Washingtonian
The striking 1882 portrait Madame O’Connor reveals how Sargent was already experimenting with some of the same styling ideas that would go on to define his most notorious work, Madame X. - Artnet
On December 1, Nicki Hunter, who’s currently the company’s associate artistic director, will take the helm from Lynne Meadow, who grew MTC from a small Off-Off Broadway theater to a major institution with one Broadway and two Off-Broadway houses, 31 Tony Awards and seven Pulitzer Prizes. - The Hollywood Reporter
Just months after most of the flagship summer festival was cancelled following the workplace death of a crew member, the dance mecca is hosting a program in October in the rebuilt Doris Duke Theatre: a weekend of tap by Caleb Teicher and Nic Gareiss. - The Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, MA)
“The work we make here I want it to be something that anyone of any background — whether they are visiting New York City or were born here — could come in and feel restored to humanity, feel connected to other people. … I really believe it’s a place where we can gather across difference.” - AP
About three-quarters of U.S. adults said they watched a new movie on streaming instead of in the theater at least once in the past year, according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, including about 3 in 10 who watched new movies on streaming at least once a month. - APNews
As one biographical blurb put it, “Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and the only true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic, egomaniacal fraud.” But the deeply personal cinéma verité style he developed in his stream of consciousness pictures certainly had its supporters. - Variety
“There’s no big reveal. Maybe the reason people just assume that there’s some big next thing is that they can’t imagine that you would give up hosting All Things Considered unless it was to grab another shiny gold ring, because that’s kind of been my whole life.” - Vulture (MSN)
An argument is essentially a collection of sentences. One of the sentences is the ‘conclusion’, and all the rest are the ‘premises’. The conclusion is meant to follow from the premises. But what exactly does that mean? - Psyche
Ultrasociality was the secret of survival in this perpetual arms race, making it the ultimate military technology — or war the ultimate social technology. - Nature
Resurrection, as often as not, means restoration, and one of the festival’s many missions is to showcase, and to explore, the painstaking ways in which wounded films can be healed. Basically, if movies were people, whether foreign or Italian-born, Bologna is where they would choose to live. - The New Yorker
“Fra Angelico,” which opens Friday and runs through Jan. 25, is one of the most anticipated exhibitions of the year. Bringing together more than 140 works in two venues, it hopes to cement Fra Angelico’s reputation as an A-list Renaissance master. - The New York Times
"Although cities develop new activities and abandon old ones, they do so in a way that keeps their coherence constant. This suggests that such transformations are constrained: although cities can develop new activities and drop old ones, while doing so, the set of industries they maintain seems to need to stay coherent.
Over the last several months, Harvard has made significant changes to identity-focused programming — eliminating or rebranding entire programs abruptly and with minimal, if any, public explanation. - The Crimson
The situation wasn’t good for the orchestra in the ‘00s and ‘10s: the messy opening of the Kimmel Center, difficulties with its conductors, musician contract disputes, a financial crisis which made the Philadelphians the first major U.S. orchestra to file for bankruptcy. How different everything looks now … - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
