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What The Choice Of The Kennedy Center’s Next President Says About The Kennedy Center

ISSUES Posted: December 12, 2013 7:57 am

“It’s not that she’s a woman, though it was certainly high time for the Kennedy Center to be led by one. It’s that she comes from the classical music world.”

Read the story in Published: 12.11.13, Washington Post

Kennedy Center Names Deborah Rutter As Its New President, To Succeed Michael Kaiser

ISSUES Posted: December 10, 2013 10:26 am

“Rutter, 57, will succeed Michael M. Kaiser, who has led the Kennedy Center since 2001. As president, she will serve as both artistic and administrative director of the Kennedy Center’s theater, dance, chamber music, jazz programming and education initiatives, while overseeing the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington National Opera.”

Read the story in Published: 12.10.13, Washington Post

The Kennedy Center Honors’ Emotional Night

PEOPLE Posted: December 10, 2013 6:58 am

“This year, the Kennedy Center honored actress Shirley MacLaine, opera singer Martina Arroyo, musician Carlos Santana — who beamed while sitting next to first lady Michelle Obama — and two piano men: Herbie Hancock and Billy Joel. If the honorees had performed together, it would have been a dream collaboration — but as is the 36-year custom, they sat, smiled and watched others pay tribute to lives lived on stages and screens.”

Read the story in Published: 12.09.13, Washington Post

How Do We Make Sure Detroit’s Art Sale Doesn’t Happen Again

VISUAL Posted: December 4, 2013 8:50 am

“The real goal, in a larger perspective, is how to de-monetize art. It’s too late for Detroit to think about such things—any attempt to keep its art out of the market would be vigorously protested by the city’s creditors—but the Detroit crisis has people thinking about how to avert such things in the future.”

Read the story in Published: 12.04.13, Washington Post

Baryshnikov Still Kicking At 65

DANCE Posted: December 2, 2013 7:12 am

“The words “Baryshnikov” and “sucked” don’t naturally fit together comfortably, but in sitting with Baryshnikov for a spell, you get the strong sense that he’s less interested in perfectionism in his artistic endeavors than in mind-expanding adventurism. And these days, he prefers to succeed or fail with collaborators.”

Read the story in Published: 11.29.13, Washington Post

It’s Nearly 2014, And Ballet Still Has A Big Issue With Black Dancers

DANCE Posted: December 1, 2013 6:43 pm

“The problem in modern ballet is the problem of the color line. Scan the rosters of the nation’s top companies and African American dancers are rare, while African American ballerinas are nearly nonexistent.”

Read the story in Published: 11.29.13, Washington Post

Detroit, Arts, And A City’s Responsibilities

ISSUES Posted: November 29, 2013 9:07 am

“The idea of a city having responsibilities to its citizens larger than simply running basic services isn’t popular these days. The implications of this will seem to many socialist, and in Plato’s dialogue they become terrifyingly authoritarian. But the notion that the city has in its care our intellectual and even spiritual (though not necessarily religious) wellbeing is deeply embedded in our contemporary culture of museums, parks, libraries and education–even if people who believe this don’t feel comfortable simply saying it.”

Read the story in Published: 11.27.13, Washington Post

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