“Perhaps lightness does not age well. But the clarity of Cunningham still shines.”
Month: January 2013
Art In Code
“We want to complete our vision of an interactive documentary, an application that allows viewers to traverse the conversation database freely following their interests.”
Yale’s Art Makeover
“After nine years and $135 million, the Yale Art Galleries on the university’s campus in New Haven, Connecticut, have reopened to display the treasures you more typically find in a big-city museum. The project is the culmination of a campus-wide arts master plan that has taken 17 years and $500 million.”
Unknown Titian Discovered In Bowels Of Britain’s National Gallery
“Is it just possible that Titian paid for a syphilis cure with a portrait? If so, it would not be the only astonishing thing about this painting, which has just been rediscovered in the basement of the National Gallery.”
Florida’s Kravis Center Settles Labor Dispute For $2.2M
“The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach will pay the money to 248 employees represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, AFL-CIO, Local 500. … The relationship began to deteriorate in 2000 when the center fired six stagehands, refused to recognize the union and declared an impasse in negotiations.”
Budding Ballet Boyz: The Talent
“When former BalletBoyz Michael Nunn and William Trevitt launched something they called the Talent three years ago, it was an experiment, an apprenticeship ensemble … Already, however, the Talent has become one of the UK’s most popular companies, with a new tour set to premiere works by A-list choreographers Russell Maliphant and Liam Scarlett.”
Kennedy Center To Review How It Selects Honors Winners
“The Kennedy Center has formed a committee of artists and community leaders to review the heretofore opaque process by which winners of the annual Kennedy Center Honors are selected. … [The move] is part of a series of steps the center has taken in response to a controversy that erupted in September over the lack of Latino honorees.”
Ada Louise Huxtable, 91, Dean Of Architecture Critics
She virtually created the modern profession of architecture critic, at The New York Times (where, in 1970, she won the first-ever Pulitzer Prize for criticism) and subsequently at The Wall Street Journal, which published her final column last month.
South Africa Sees Boom In Stand-Up Comedy
“[There’s a new] generation of South African standups who have become wildly popular, providing not only escapism but a different perspective on the nation’s problems. They tackle race, class, crime, corruption and the political elite. As court jesters tweaking the nose of the powerful, they are quite possibly helping to keep the nation sane.”
Ancient Roman Amphitheatre Discovered In England
“Remains of a huge, 2,000-year-old Roman theatre, thought to be the first of its kind in Britain, have been discovered in Kent. … In addition to the orchestra pit – in which choruses would have performed – the ruins also include a narrow stage, featuring holes that are thought to have allowed flooding for aquatic displays.”