Casts were a booming trade in the late 19th century and museums competed for the most sought after examples. The availability of casts, even though they were multiples, was limited, especially towards the end of the century when the damage caused by taking moulds was finally acknowledged.
Month: February 2018
As Performance Space New York (Re-)Opens, Old Denizens Mourn Its Old Identity, PS122
“Some criticized the change as an erasure of the organization’s history. Others took issue with the choice of a generic-sounding name over one reflecting the origins of PS122, which was founded in 1980 when a group of artists took over an abandoned public school.” (One waggish critic tweeted, “In honor of PS122’s decision to rebrand as Performance Space New York, I am considering changing my name to Personal Name.”) “The initial outcry has subsided, but … questions linger about the new identity. To what extent does a name matter? What happens to the history it holds? “
Crooner Vic Damone, 89
Mr. Damone lacked the outsize personality of fellow Italian American pop singers Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, but he nonetheless flourished on a rung just below greatness. He made more than 2,000 recordings, as well as dozens of movie and TV appearances, and sold out live performances until he retired in the early 2000s after a stroke.
Salon Will Let You Read Ad-Free If You Help It Mine Cryptocurrency
“On Sunday, the site began presenting visitors using ad blockers with the option to ‘Suppress Ads’ in exchange for ‘allowing Salon to use your unused computing power.’ … Through the use of a Monero mining plugin called Coinhive, the online magazine is essentially cobbling together the spare processing power from a bunch of readers’ computers to create a virtual server farm that can mine cryptocurrencies.”
Dubai’s Man-made Islands In The Map Of The World Is Resurrected
After five years of dredging, which saw 320 million cubic metres of sand and 25 million tonnes of rock hauled into place, the final stone in the breakwater was laid in January 2008 – on the eve of the global financial crisis. The vision collapsed just as quickly as the computer renderings had been conjured. Dubai World, the government investment arm in charge of the project, was revealed to have debts of $60bn.
Urban Bush Women Director On The Hardest Part Of Keeping An Indie Dance Company Going Today
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar: “Space is the hardest part about being an artist today. There are times when we’re in a different space every day and that’s hard on the creative process. Apply for those residencies – they’ve become modern dance gold.” (video)
With Theatre Reviews Getting Cut Everywhere, How Will New Talent Get Discovered?
Lyn Gardner: “When reviewing space gets tight it is not the shiny, starry mainstream shows in the West End or at the National or the Royal Shakespeare Company that get cut, but the new, the unknown and the innovative.” Especially if those shows are at regional theatres: for a producer, “schlepping across the country and a night in a hotel may be worth it, if reviews by those you trust have alerted you to a company with a great show you haven’t previously heard of.”
San Diego Symphony Selects Rafael Payaré As Music Director
“The 37-year-old Venezuela native” – like his friend Gustavo Dudamel, a product of El Sistema – “will succeed Jahja Ling, who last year concluded his 13th and final season with the symphony. … Now music director-designate, [he] will formally assume his role as music director July 1, 2019. Payaré will [also] continue … as music director of Northern Ireland’s Ulster Orchestra.”
David Robertson To Head Juilliard’s Conducting Program
“Robertson, whose tenure [as music director] with the [St. Louis Symphony] ends at the close of this season, succeeds Alan Gilbert at Juilliard, perhaps the most important training ground for classical musicians in this country.”
Angels In Charlotte: How A North Carolina Theater Fought, Won, And Lost A Culture War Over Tony Kushner’s Play
Another excerpt from the Dan Kois-Isaac Butler oral history The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of ‘Angels in America’: here, “actors, administrators, and journalists tell the story of one such theater that went to court to fight a local government that wanted to shut the play down – and won.” (Until, that is, the following year.