Communities as Resources
Too often (far, far too often), work that is thought of as engagement work views the arts organization or arts professional as the exclusive bearer of resources. … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2017-02-14
Merce in Nancy
CCN – Ballet de Lorraine presents three works from its repertory at the Joyce Theater. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2017-02-14
A lot of actors start production companies in which they’re not all that involved in the actual producing. Not Kidman with Big Little Lies: she got the rights to the book, got Reese Witherspoon on board, and the two of them lined up a director, a screenwriter, a big-name cast, and the studio themselves. Sarah Lyall gets the story.
Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happpen Here is on the list, as is Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. (They didn’t need to include The Handmaid’s Tale.) But there are also titles by Mario Vargas Llosa, James Baldwin, Katie Kitamura, Hari Kunzru, Rachel Kushner, Jean Brunner, Antonio Tabucchi, and Viet Thanh Nguyen.
“It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen: 100 rock climbers abseiling down the façade of the Reichstag, slowly unfurling this huge silvery curtain.” While Jeanne-Claude is no longer with us to give her testimony, Christo and project manager Wolfgang Volz give their accounts of Christo’s most successful project before The Gates.
“No matter how hard Americans tried to regard Anna Nicole Smith with apathetic dismissal, they couldn’t hide their fascination – and still can’t. Why? Was she just another model, another B-lister, another early casualty of reality TV? Or did she show us something about ourselves, about our country, that frightened us more deeply than we could ever admit?”
Hamilton in London and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child are working hard on strategies to combat “the secondary market” and the high prices it charges.
“While all that instant gratification [that the internet and e-commerce provide] may be convenient, we are warned that it’s ruining a long-standing human virtue: the ability to wait. Well, it’s not waiting itself that’s a virtue; the virtue is self-control, and your ability to wait is a sign of just how much self-control you have.” Alexandra Samuel explains that it’s not really so straightforward.
You’ve been through it, or know someone who has. The two of you can’t choose from among the zillion end tables, or you can’t remember the name of the one you settled on, or you can’t make sense of the cartoon instructions … here’s an explanation of where the disagreements come from, and some tips on how to avoid the biggest dangers.
At 100, Ed Simons is still conducting the Rockland Symphony Orchestra, a group he founded 65 years ago in the northern suburbs of New York City.
He may tire quickly and need a live-in nurse, but he’s still present and lucid – and how many people have a stroke at 80 and live another 20 years? He’s even published a new book, his 12th. Hadley Freeman pays a visit.
