Klaus Biesenbach, 43, is “a former curator who has remained an adviser” to P.S. 1. Biesenbach, who “for the past three years has also been MoMA’s chief curator of media and performance,” said he wants “to start a real dialogue between the two institutions yet keep very distinct programs.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Mexican Intelligence Spied On Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
“The defunct DFS agency bugged the Nobel laureate’s phone and monitored his movements from 1967 after he moved to Mexico with his family. The authorities suspected the Colombian author of One Hundred Years of Solitude because of his leftist sympathies and friendship with Fidel Castro.”
Alice Munro Says She Has Fought Cancer
“I’ve been lucky with my health,” the 78-year-old author said. “Also, I think we are lucky now in our medical intervention that keeps us going. I have a heart bypass and I’ve just had cancer and things like that are just dealt with now.”
Reinventing The Musical For A Chinese Audience
In Shanghai, director Meng Jinghui’s murder mystery is no mere Broadway translation. The show’s lyricist explains: “If you take Rent on stage in China, it doesn’t make sense. We don’t have bohemia, we don’t have so many drug users or gay people, and we don’t do threesomes.”
The Visionary Behind The Met’s Risky New Ring
“[U]ntil recently [Robert] Lepage has been best known among hip theater-goers. His nonoperatic stage works … can run from 90 minutes to nine hours, are written in collaboration with his actors and technicians, and have nothing in common with anything else on the world stage.”
Stephen King Novel Latest In Trend Of Delayed E-Books
Stephen King’s next novel, “Under the Dome,” will be released as an e-book Dec. 24, “several weeks after the hardcover is published on Nov. 10. … [P]ublishers don’t want to risk cannibalizing hardcover sales,” and they want independent booksellers to be able “to sell as many copies of the hardcover edition as possible during the holiday season.”
Rocco Goes On Tour
“Rocco Landesman, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, announced Wednesday that he is taking a whistle-stop tour of the country to ‘spotlight all the ways that art works.'” Such a tour “has been a technique that previous NEA chairmen, going back to the tenure of actress Jane Alexander, have undertaken.”
What Arthur Dent, Dracula and Winnie Have In Common
“The literary creations of authors stopped being sacred territory roughly 20 years ago, when the estates of late authors began leasing out the copyrights to old works.” But a “troika of high-profile revivals, all within a 10-day period, brings these after-death sequels to a new level of prominence.”
Torture Request Names Names, From AC/DC To Tupac
Here’s the list of artists and songs named in the Freedom of Information Act request for records of music the United States used in torture.
Musicians Demand Titles Of Songs U.S. Used In Torture
“A high-profile coalition of artists — including the members of Pearl Jam, R.E.M. and the Roots — demanded Thursday that the government release the names of all the songs that were blasted since 2002 at prisoners for hours, even days, on end, to try to coerce cooperation or as a method of punishment.”