“The Prado has been bringing novelists to live in an apartment overlooking the museum. They stay for periods ranging from three to six weeks, but they are not expected to write there. All they have to do is look at the art.” - The New York Times
Really, it’s a musical installation, with speakers set up as far from each other as possible in a living room. “The idea is to encourage 'an increased awareness of one’s presence in space — architectural, communal and individual.’” - Washington Post
Artists got a PowerPoint’s worth of info, and then developed their music/dance/theatre/projection combos on their own. The Met “anticipates that many exhibition-goers will encounter performances unexpectedly as they make their way through the show.” - The New York Times
“'I’m afraid leather forearm bracers have nothing to do with ancient Rome,’ says Alexander Mariotti, a historian and specialist in gladiatorial combat who worked as a researcher and script consultant on . ‘They don’t appear in any imagery or sources … they just look good on film.’” - The Guardian (UK)
Fishman “was sitting in a restaurant in Adams Morgan one night in 2003 with his wife, attorney Stephanie Richards, when they grabbed a napkin and pen to outline his vision for a jazz festival in the nation’s capital.” - Washington Post (MSN)
"What began with … piling the family and their sets into a van and putting on shows for churches and home-school groups has evolved into a performing arts conservatory, a 300-seat theater and a twice-annual residency at the Museum of the Bible just south of the National Mall." - The Washington Post (MSN)
It is nearly double the size of its original location, at 11 East 26th Street in New York, which opened in 2012 and closed in 2020 and pivoted to virtual programming during the pandemic. - The New York Times
He did it without Chabon, for starters: while the author happily gave rights to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, opera is simply "not his thing." So Bates and librettist Gene Scheer set about adapting the Pulitzer-winning novel — and the result will open the Met's season next fall. - AP
It's called Nintendo Music — and on it, you can listen to dozens of hours of music from games like Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong. The app has had more than a million downloads since it launched on Oct. 30. - NPR
Late last spring, Donna Fay Burchfield, dean of the University of the Arts School of Dance, was as shocked as everyone else when she saw media reports that the Philadelphia school was closing. Here's how she found a new home for the UArts dance program in, of all places, rural Vermont. - Dance Magazine
Such a high-value donation of art is uncommon in the UK; the last headline-making gift received by the British Museum was a bequest from a late trustee worth £123 million, or $156 million. - ARTnews
