“The theater was packed for a 9 p.m. Saturday screening of the Martin Scorsese film when the moviegoer complained about a woman near him using a cellphone. The woman and two men with her left the theater. But sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said two men returned a few minutes later and stabbed the victim.” With a meat thermometer.
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
How Did Caravaggio Die? First Task: Find His Corpse
“For many months, [Italian TV host Silvano] Vinceti and a team of scientists have been exhuming remains they believe are Caravaggio’s in hopes of performing a belated autopsy. After digging up dozens of bodies, Mr. Vinceti has narrowed the field to a handful of long-buried corpses.”
Record Number Of Dealers Flocking To $2.7 Billion Tefaf
“The 23rd annual edition of the European Fine Art Fair — Tefaf — in the Dutch city of Maastricht will be the year’s first test of demand from buyers outside the auction rooms, where wealthy collectors have been pushing up prices.”
No More Raunchy Bathrooms, Public Theater Says
Monday’s “symbolic ground-breaking at the downtown theater complex that produced ‘Hair’ and ‘A Chorus Line’ launched a $35 million, two-year project to expand and modernize the building’s facade and cramped common areas.”
Is There Room Onstage For Moral Ambiguity About War?
“I’ve sat through ‘anti-war’ theatre from the satire on Lyndon Johnson, McBird, through Rolf Hochhuth’s conspiracist anti-Churchill play Soldiers, to David Hare’s relatively subtle Stuff Happens. I’ve seen dozens of ’em. The thought is — or was — could there be a pro-war play?”
For City Opera, 2010-11 To Be Another Slender Season
But general manager and artistic director George Steel “said that this season City Opera expects to balance its budget for the first time in years. ‘The company is light-years ahead of where we were last year at this time,’ he said. ‘There are still significant challenges, but we are working very hard to address them.'”
Artes Mundi Artists Are International, Little-Known
“There was no sight of a light being turned off and on at the preview opening of the fourth Artes Mundi prize exhibition in Cardiff. This was big subject art tackling subjects from post-communist social order to consumerism and globalisation. The prize of £40,000 is one of the most lucrative in the world and the biggest in the UK.”
Has Caravaggio Dethroned Michelangelo?
“Caravaggiomania … suggests that the whole classical tradition in which Michelangelo was steeped is becoming ever more foreign and therefore seemingly less germane, even to many educated people.” Meanwhile, Caravaggio “exemplifies the modern antihero, a hyperrealist whose art is instantly accessible.”
Comparing West End Notes With The Stranger To His Left
“Both of us lost sensation in the right leg first, and that meant we both stopped feeling the pain of the opera glasses embedding themselves into the right knee. We talked about the show and discussed the prices. She thought they were disgraceful.”
Reconsidering Classical Music’s No Applause Rule
Alex Ross: “Programme booklets sometimes contain a list of rules, rendered in the style of God on Mount Sinai,” telling people when it is and isn’t acceptable to applaud. “The underlying message of the protocol is, in essence: ‘Curb your enthusiasm. Don’t get too excited.’ Should we be surprised that people aren’t as excited about classical music as they used to be?”