The 63 participants in the upstart exhibition … come from more than 30 countries on six continents. … They include architects whose designs range from a luxury Mexican house made up of pentagon-shaped pavilions to the painting of abandoned houses in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood in such colors as ‘Currency Exchange Yellow’. Some, like Chicago’s Jeanne Gang and the Danish firm BIG, already are well-known. Others have built little but have big ideas.”
The Fair Play Fair Pay Act of 2015: U.S. Legislators Propose Overhaul Of Musicians’ Online Royalty Payments
“A group of congressional lawmakers introduced legislation on Monday to overhaul the way that licensing payment rates are set for digital streaming and satellite play, as well as to pay performers when their songs are broadcast over the airwaves.”
Defending British Dance Training: If It’s So Bad, Why Do So Many People Come To Work Here?
In response to serious criticism from three major choreographers of the quality of UK-trained contemporary dancers, Judith Mackrell considers the nature and purpose of the dance education on offer – and allows as how British dance is healthy enough that lots of artists from elsewhere want to be part of it.
Rochester (MN) Symphony President Steps Down Amid Criminal Charges
“Jeffrey Amundson, who served as the group’s president for four years, was placed on paid administrative leave in February after prosecutors charged him with stealing money from a vulnerable adult. On April 1, the board changed his leave to unpaid.”
Are Scientific And Religious Explanations Incompatible?
“Commentator Tania Lombrozo says the answer to whether scientific and religious explanations are fundamentally at odds isn’t a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ when it comes to explaining the world around us.”
Abraham Lincoln, Man Of The Theatre
“He deeply loved the theater, his teacher from the rugged prairie to raging, war-torn Washington. … Lincoln’s meteoric rise from the frontier was fueled by his skills as a performer. Drama, jokes, stories, courtroom arguments, outdoor debates – he could go on for hours and exhaust rivals such as Senator Stephen Douglas.”
Hot Right Now: Twitter Accounts Of Medieval Images (But There’s A Problem)
“Unfortunately, their wild popularity means these accounts have no reason to change. Yet that very popularity also shows that people are curious about historic images.”
Hollywood Studios Scramble To Protect Themselves After Sony Cyber-attack
A challenge is that companies can implement “the highest level of sophistication as far as firewalls and technology and compliance … but no matter how good it is there is always a people component. It is the people part of this whole situation that is very difficult. Everyone in the company has to participate in the solution.”
Cincinnati Symphony’s Lumenocity Was A Hit (But Now You Have To Pay To See It)
“Slated to cost $1.4 million, orchestra officials fell short in fundraising by $400,000, and were faced with the dilemma of either not presenting Lumenocity this year or charging attendees a fee.”
Chicagoland Chamber Orchestra Shuts Down After 20 Years
“Gayle Heatherington, Ars Viva executive director, said Monday morning that the ensemble was in ‘excellent financial health’ with record subscription and single ticket sales and that the decision to draw the curtain was purely ‘a personal one.'”
How Do You Function As Director Of Someone Else’s Museum? (Especially Eli Broad’s)
“Being the director of Eli Broad’s new museum might strike some people as a contradiction in terms. … How could someone running Mr. Broad’s private museum really have any power?” Joanne Heyler, however, is just the person to pull it off.
Indians, Iranians, And Gay Penguins: The 2014 List Of Library Books Tried Hardest To Ban Is Here
Leading the pack in attracting misguided outrage was Sherman Alexie’s young-adult title The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, followed by Marjane Satrapi’s girl-comes-of-age-in-Iran graphic memoir Persepolis and Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell’s And Tango Makes Three, about the same-sex pair of penguins who raised a chick at the Central Park Zoo.
Theatre In The West End Is In A Golden Age, Says Top Producer
Sonia Friedman: “I can stand here alongside a lot of colleagues doing the same job, saying the West End is as good as it can ever be, and it’s probably the best it’s ever been right now.”
Bringing Genuine Vaudeville To The Metropolitan Opera
“What’s a vaudeville consultant doing in an opera house? It turns out that not just anyone can choreograph a decent slosh routine, a messy staple of slapstick in which whipped cream, custard or shaving cream is wielded as a projectile, hopefully to comic effect.” So David McVicar decided to make the itinerant clowns of Pagliacci into a traveling vaudeville troupe, he turned to this man.
The Ballerina Who Earned Her Starring Broadway Role In The Shower
The star-to-be was the Royal Ballet’s Leanne Cope, the show was An American in Paris, the director was her old colleague Christopher Wheeldon. And – sorry! – neither nudity nor running water was involved.
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Eduardo Galeano, Who Inspired Latin American Leftists Through His Writing, Has Died At 74
“His best known book, ‘The Open Veins of Latin America,; published in 1971, described the historical legacy of the Spanish colonial era and capitalist plunder that followed it. He spurned conventional narrative in favor of anecdotes highlighting, among others, enslaved indigenous Bolivian miners, devastated Brazilian rain forests and polluted Venezuelan oil fields.”
Günter Grass Dead At 87
“With his novels, plays, articles and speeches, Mr. Grass became one of Germany’s foremost intellectuals and gadflies. The themes that consumed his literature – guilt, atonement and hypocrisy – were also central to his political commentary. He could be shrill and polarizing, a self-professed ‘troublemaker’ who cultivated what he described as a ‘tendency to bring out into the open what had too long been swept under the carpet.'”
Angela Lansbury, At Long (Long, Long) Last, Wins An Olivier Award
“Thousands of years have gone by and we still have this thing called live theatre – and the reason is that we need to be able to compare ourselves to what we see up there and judge ourselves as human beings.”