Kerry Nicholls has worked as a choreographer, teacher and consultant, as well as associate artistic director to Rojo at English National Ballet. Rather than help rehearse dancers and make repertory choices, she helps dancers explore their talents and interests beyond daily classes and rehearsals. - San Francisco Chronicle
Bryan West, who was hired by Gannett as its Taylor Swift reporter, should beware. Sam Kriss spent four months in 2014-15 covering Swift for the now-defunct London music zine Kerfuffle; this bonkers essay covers what he can remember (nothing) and its effect on his mental health (profound). - Numb at the Lodge
Trisha Kirk has been a member of the Guthrie team since 1985 and has held various positions, including season ticket manager, box office manager, and marketing manager, and, later, director of marketing. - American Theatre
"In a drabber parallel universe, Frida Kahlo might have been a doctor. As a high schooler she was on a pre-med track, studying biology, anatomy, and zoology at one of Mexico City’s best schools. … But then a trolley car collided with the bus she was taking home." - ARTnews
The special, tastefully titled “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” is one of the most unpleasant things ostensibly produced for entertainment purposes that I have ever sat through. - Los Angeles Times
Matthew Paluch argues that there's one major factor in the dance instruction industry that few on either the teacher or student side are willing to talk about openly. - Gramilano (Milan)
On the page, her fabulous erudition was melded to a frankness that was so unaffected as to seem effortless. Actually—a very Joan word—simplicity is hard work, and Joan worked hard. She wrote her drafts in longhand and sent page proofs by fax. - The New Yorker
Dr. L’Antoinette Stines: "What I have done is brought together what came off the ships when they did — and sometimes we forget that it is not just Africa that came off the ship, India came off the ship, China came off the ship. So my technique is a synabridge." - Essence
Anecdotally, the increasing costs of fair stands and their associated shipping, travel and entertainment budgets were already taking quite a toll pre-pandemic, but inflation has made it more acute. - The Art Newspaper
Arifa Akbar: "Some trimmed-down Shakespeares – such as Simon Godwin’s Romeo and Juliet – are as rich as the originals, and not every staging of Much Ado About Nothing has to have its protracted comic interludes with Dogberry and his gang." Especially if it means missing the last train home from Stratford-upon-Avon. - The Guardian
"An initiative to create a comprehensive record of the 2023 insurrection (at) the Brazilian congress" by supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro, who had lost his re-election bid, "has been launched as part of the development of the Museum of Democracy in Brasília." - The Art Newspaper
WTVP has been in crisis mode since at least September, when the finance director resigned, the CEO committed suicide, layoffs were made, and investigators discovered "questionable, improper, or unauthorized spending." Amid public pressure, 11 of 17 board members have stepped down. - WCBU (Peoria)
The complaint, filed by the Paris-based NGO Lumière sur le Patrimoine, alleges that the Metropolitan Museum, the Worcester Museum in Massachusetts, and the Glencairn Museum just outside Philadelphia have six window panels that were stolen from Rouen cathedral roughly a century ago. - ARTnews
"After a demanding (2½-year) program that included a gasp-inducing repair of the two cracking, 500-year-old limewood panels, Getty senior conservator Ulrich Birkmaier and his team stabilized the paintings, while bringing the images back to something close to what they likely were … in the 16th century." - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
Mindi Madison and Alicia Wilson, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, have been sentenced to three years' probation and ordered to pay $270,876 each in restitution. - Inside Radio
