“Hinkson’s heart belonged to the Graham repertoire, which increasingly provided her with great roles and success in works like ‘Cave of the Heart,’ ‘Seraphic Dialogue’ and ‘Clytemnestra.'”
Month: November 2014
The Van Gogh Museum Gets Way Colorful, And Runs With Autobiographical Drama
“The redisplay will help tackle the problem of growing visitor numbers, by spreading out visitors (until now they swarmed to the main display of Van Gogh’s works on the first floor).”
How Did West Virginia Deal With Its First Queer Film Fest?
“Historically, both Appalachians and LGBTQ folks have been disenfranchised by society. Both have preconceptions that people believe about them that are largely untrue or at least unfounded. So we wanted to bring these two groups of people in the same space to recognize the similarities between themselves and create a conversation using film as the vessel.”
Museums Have Almost Recovered From The 2008 Crash
“A recovering stock market did a lot of the heavy lifting, but so did adroit sleights of hand. During the recession, several heavyweight museums quietly added seats to their boards as a way to shore up their sagging bottom lines.”
Mark Strand, Poet Laureate Who Wrote His Epitaph Decades Ago, Dies At 80
“To critics who complained that his poems, with their emphasis on death, despair and dissolution, were too dark, he replied, ‘I find them evenly lit.'”
Vinyl’s Comeback Keeps On Coming
“The entire plant produces 28 records a minute, but Sheldon wishes he could press more. He’s increased his staff and now presses records 24 hours a day, 6 days a week to keep up with demand.”
Actually, Even Equity Tours Might Not Be That Great For The Performers
The minimum wage on Broadway is “more than triple the minimum on some of today’s currently running Equity tours. These tours aren’t Broadway and marketing them as such is frankly disingenuous.”
Guy Who Steals The Show As An Angel At English National Opera Is An American Street Dancer
“Banks, whose real name is James Davis, did not even have a biography in the programme for English National Opera’s production of The Gospel According to the Other Mary – he became a Twitter enigma with audience members tweeting the question, who is he?”
In Los Angeles, Look To Koreatown’s Architecture To See The Future
“Threaded through a neighborhood that in demographic terms is mostly Latino, well served by subway and bus lines, K-town is a thriving, charismatic advertisement for a more intensely urban Los Angeles.”
Annie Lee Painted ‘What Everyone Knew’ But Didn’t See As Art
“‘She was our Picasso, our Salvador Dali,’ El said. ‘She was that.'”