“If you receive public money, I think you should attempt to do more difficult things. As a contemporary artist, it pains me that it’s very hard for an institution to make a really huge group exhibition of contemporary art.”
Month: January 2013
Corinne Jacker, Obie Award-Winning Playwright, 79
“Ms. Jacker came to prominence in Off Broadway, regional and repertory theater in the early 1970s. Over the years more than a dozen of her plays were staged in prominent houses.”
Rembrandt Resists Scientists
“Researchers had previously probed the painting with infrared, neutron and conventional X-ray methods, but could not see the behind the top coat, largely because Rembrandt used the same paint (with the same chemical composition) for the underpainting and the final version.”
How Rock Climbing Is Just Like Working In The Theatre
Belaying? Rope? Physics? Stagehands have it covered.
New Hollywood Employees: Drones
“The Motion Picture Association of America is pressing the federal government to legalize Unmanned Aerial Vehicle use in the film industry.”
Can Dance Companies Be (Partly) Saved By Merchandise?
“A recent sales breakdown yielded the following items sold during Nutcracker and the repertory season (a total of about 90 performances): 5,400 ornaments; 4,600 nutcrackers; 2,200 pieces of jewelry; 1,300 items of logo apparel; and 1,300 plush toys.”
What City Will Become ‘Bollywood North’?
It’s Toronto vs. Vancouver in an all-out Indian film awards battle.
Sacramento Opera, Philharmonic To Merge
“The new organization will operate under the tentative corporate name of the Sacramento Region Performing Arts Alliance. The merger forms one board of directors from the two current boards, effectively turning the two nonprofits into one.”
Balthazar Korab, Photographer Of Modernist Architecture, 86
“Mr. Korab captured the romance, moodiness and humanity of even the most austere postwar buildings.”
Bobby Burns Gets His Day (Or Rather, His Night)
“Before cutting and serving haggis, a designated guest first addresses it, reciting Burns’ poem of appreciation for the ‘Great chieftain o’ the pudding-race.'”