Take, for example, the $169,000 poppy field used in this season’s $4.3 million production of “Prince Igor.” How does a flower patch cost $169,000? To explain, the Met pulled back the curtain on the five-year process of developing and budgeting “Prince Igor.”
Sony Moves One Of Hollywood’s Biggest Visual Effects Studios To Vancouver
“Vancouver has developed into a world-class centre for visual effects and animation production,” said Randy Lake, executive vice president and general manager at Sony Pictures Digital Productions, in a statement issued on Friday morning. “It offers an attractive lifestyle for artists in a robust business climate.”
Priest Buys Painting Because He “Liked The Frame,” Finds Out It’s a Van Dyck Worth £500,000
A priest, who snapped up an original Van Dyck portrait for £400 in an antiques shop, says he bought the painting “for the frame.”
British Education Minister Takes US Authors Out Of School Syllabus
“Longtime American favorites including John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” and Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” are off the syllabus for a major high school English qualification under new guidelines that focus almost exclusively on writers from Britain and Ireland.”
Online Registration Ends Today
Today’s the LAST DAY to register online for this June’s Americans for the Arts Annual Convention and receive a discount! Don’t miss out on the best professional development opportunity of 2014.
Cuban Cabaret Comes To The Ballet
“Most aspiring dancers and choreographers spend their teens perfecting their arabesques in ballet class or their spins in hip-hop. But when … Rosie Herrera was 16, she was learning a very different side of dance – as a showgirl strutting the stage of the Little Havana theatrical cabaret Teatro de Bellas Artes in fishnet stockings, high heels, feathered headdress and not much else.”