The company’s board recently announced that they’ve asked longtime artistic directors Ron Cunningham and Carinne Binda to step down after next season. The pair don’t want to go, and the dancers are fighting for them. Last week, the dancers unanimously petitioned to join AGMA.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Next On Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth: A Statue Destroyed By ISIS And Dessert-By-Drone
After the sore thumb that’s sticking out there now, installed on top of the column in 2018 will be Michael Rakowitz’s The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist, followed in 2020 by Heather Phillipson’s THE END. And yes, they basically are as described in the headline. Hannah Ellis-Petersen fills us in.
Shrine At Site Of Jesus’s Tomb Reopens After Nine-Month Restoration
The historic structure, known as the Edicule, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem had fallen into such disrepair that the Israeli government declared it a safety hazard and closed it. Now, after $4 million worth of work, the Edicule is open to pilgrims again – and the cage of iron girders that had surrounded it for 70 years is gone. (includes video)
Chuck Barris, Creator Of ‘The Dating Game’, Mastermind And Host Of ‘The Gong Show’, And (He Says) CIA Assassin, Dead At 87
As he once told an interviewer, “I was never on drugs, but everybody thought I was. When they saw The Gong Show, and I would come out, they all thought I was whacked out of my mind. But I never did drugs. I had a public company.”
Lessons On Male Insecurity (And Indigestion) From Walt Whitman’s Men’s-Health Column
Oh yes, he did. Starting in 1858, Whitman (under one of his man pseudonyms) wrote an advice column for the New York Atlas titled “Manly Health and Training.” Dan Piepenbring suggests that, behind Whitman’s vigorous exhortation, his advice betrayed more than a bit of insecurity about masculinity.
Anselm Kiefer And Mario Vargas Llosa Awarded J. Paul Getty Medals
“Since it was established in 2013, the J. Paul Getty Trust has only recognized six individuals for their extraordinary contributions to the arts. Past recipients of the award include Harold Williams, Nancy Englander, Jacob Rothschild, Frank Gehry, Yo-Yo Ma, and Ellsworth Kelly.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.22.17
You’re the best
This Arts Advocacy Day, the stakes are much higher. As we work to make the case for the arts, we wonder, is our data keeping pace? We’re using love (or breakup) letters as a creative and fun design research method to get powerful insight into the perceptions of our stakeholders. … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2017-03-22
The circle of art and commerce
Last week, in my Juilliard course on the future of classical music, one of my students asked about art and commerce. Where do they fit in classical music’s future? What roles will they play? … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2017-03-22
Augurs of spring
New York drama critics are forced to attend so many Broadway openings in March and April that they don’t have time to do much of anything else. Needless to say, I love theater, but I’m I’m not monomaniacal about it, so I figured I’d better indulge a couple of my other artistic interests while I still could. … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2017-03-22
All Of Human Civilization Is Built On Code
In making this argument, Philip Auerswald is using a very broad definition of the word code – one that includes recipes and procedural protocols as well as binary numbers and computer languages.
Aristotle Was The Great-Grandfather Of The Computer Revolution
The Atlantic‘s headline for this essay, “How Aristotle Created the Computer,” stretches things a bit. Even so, Chris Dixon makes a solid case that direct application of Aristotelian logic is what made the invention and development of computers possible.
The Magician Who’s A Conceptual Artist
“[Derek] DelGaudio devises performances that combine sleight-of-hand with more theoretical preoccupations drawn from performance art, conceptual art and what’s known as relational aesthetics … [He] likes to nod to well-known conventions (pick a card, any card), only to slyly deconstruct them, in a manner that either heightens or thwarts their payoffs. His animating goal is not for observers to ask, ‘How did he do that?’ but, ‘Why?'”