“The closing is earlier than expected – the play had been scheduled to run until Jan. 7. But the run will still have been longer than that of many contemporary nonmusical productions; at the time of the show’s closing, it will have played 30 preview and 173 regular performances.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Movie About Democracy Movement Massacre Rocks South Korea
“Ten million people in South Korea, one-fifth of the population, have watched Jang Hoon’s movie A Taxi Driver (Taeksi Woonjunsa) since it was released on 2 August. … The film is set in May 1980, during the mass democratic uprising – and ensuing military crackdown – in the southwestern city of Gwangju.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.06.17
The shallow breathing of rational management
So much of our training, theory, practice, and focus in cultural management has to do with outcomes and processes. When we look to improve how our organizations ‘work’, we tend to choose between … read more
AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2017-09-06
Three Small(ish) Exhibitions That Deserve More Notice
Planning your fall outings to special exhibitions? The season about to begin has a wealth of fascinating shows – many devoted to artists or topics that are due for much more exposure and attention. … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-09-06
Breaking (& heartbreaking): Sotheby’s Releases Checklist & Price Estimates of Berkshire Museum Disposals
Read ’em and weep. Sotheby’s has just released the checklist (with presale estimates and sale dates) for the Berkshire Museum 40. Apparently the seller and its agent don’t believe that … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2017-09-06
Charlie Shoemake’s Changes
Demanding to be heard, now and then one of the LPs in the surviving Rifftides collection of vinyl records sends vibes — appropriately in this case. The album called Sunstroke appeared in 1979 on the … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2017-09-06
Is Japanese Culture Traumatized By Centuries Of Natural Disaster?
“As bad as they were, the 2011 earthquake and tsunami were just the latest chapter in a long, tragic narrative. The Japanese archipelago sits at the nexus of four tectonic plates, subjecting the region to more than 1,500 seismic events each year, including at least two 5.0 magnitude or higher earthquakes. As a result, Tokyo has been destroyed and rebuilt on average, from 1608 to 1945, once every five years. … The effects of centuries of natural disaster may be most obvious, though, in Japanese culture.”
What It’s Like To Write A Book When You’ve Had A Traumatic Brain Injury
“In the back corner of the shed were two big X [Google: ‘the thing you bang on in a band to make the beat’ :::: drums] full of what looked like broken-up pieces of metal about the size of cheese snack X [Google: ‘cheese square snack’ :::: crackers].”
If A Critic Gets Free Tickets, Is She Obligated To Review The Play?
Lyn Gardner explains why a critic might not be able to publish a review – or might not, under certain circumstances, want to – and what good might come from those free tickets even if there’s no review.
Was 1876 The Most Important Year In Classical Music’s History?
Mike Ashman looks at the extraordinary number of key events that happened that year – events whose effects we still feel today.
She Gave Up A Starring Gig With Cirque Du Soleil To Master The Classical Dance Forms Of Central Asia
Tara Pandeya writes about how she came to study the rigorous, highly developed styles of the Tajik and Uyghur traditions, and how she traveled to Tajikistan to study and ended up a member of the national dance ensemble and winning a televised national competition.
Keeping Alive The Sacred Royal Dance Of Cambodia
Princess Norodom Buppha Devi, granddaughter of the late King Sihanouk and half-sister of the current king, toured the world in the 1950s and ’60s as one of the leading dancers of the Royal Ballet of Cambodia. In the 1990s, after the years of the Khmer Rouge and the later Vietnamese invasion, she located surviving dancers and musicians and refounded the company, and she’s now training a new generation.
Police Recover $3 Million Worth Of Georg Baselitz’s Stolen Art
“The boisterous sculptures and strident upside-down paintings of the Neo-Expressionist Georg Baselitz are known the world over. But when more than $3 million worth of works from his personal collection, including some he had created, disappeared from a German storage depot, it took months before anyone noticed. Prosecutors have [now] arrested three suspects, all of whom worked in the shipping industry.”