Plenty of artists were furious when Kapoor negotiated exclusive rights to the new pigment Vantablack. Artist Stuart Semple did more than just complain: he’s created a super-fluorescent pink, and he’ll sell it to any and every artist but one.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Bob Dylan Won’t Be Going To Accept His Nobel – And Frankly, He’s Been A Jerk About The Entire Thing
Megan Garber: “He’s a ‘screw the establishment’ kind of guy; ironically, that political position is what helped him to win the Nobel in the first place. … Noble! Philosophical! Wonderful! There’s another way to see things, though, which is that Bob Dylan has simply been acting, if you’ll allow me to put it very poetically, like an enormous man-baby, refusing to acknowledge his being awarded one of the most prestigious prizes in the world in a way that manages to be both delightfully and astoundingly rude.”
Two Miami City Ballet Stars Launch Their Own Company
Former principals Jennifer Kronenberg and Carlos Guerra, who retired from MCB in the spring, have founded Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami, which makes its debut this weekend.
A First? Scottish Ballet Plans An All-Digital Season
The project, titled “Under the Skin,” is “said to be the first time a ballet company has curated a month-long programme of projects made for the format.”
‘A Weaker Pittsburgh Symphony Or Weaker Philadelphia Orchestra Means A Weaker America,’ Says USA Today Op-Ed
“‘American exceptionalism’ during the 20th century included the standing and stature of our symphony orchestras,” writes attorney and string player Jonathan Kaledin. “Taking American orchestra ‘exceptionalism’ further into the 21st century now requires a complete rethinking of the role our federal government plays in providing financial support for these institutions. … What does it say about us that our federal government spent $245 billion bailing out financial institutions that were ‘too big to fail,’ but it will not consider meaningful support for our magnificent but financially distressed symphony orchestra institutions?”
A Monet Haystack Sells For $81.4 Million
Monet did 25 paintings for his Meules (“Grainstacks”) series, and this one’s unusual coloring makes it one of the best. (It was also one of the few in private hands.)
1,900-Year-Old Mosaics Unearthed In Turkey
The works were found by arhcaeologists excavating a series of 80 rock-hewn tombs in the city of Şanlıurfa. They appear to date from the first or second century CE, when the area was part of the kingdom of Edessa, the seat of Syriac culture.
De Niro, DeGeneres, Springsteen, Tyson, Hanks, Ross, Michaels, Gehry, And Lin Among Winners Of Obama’s Final Presidential Medals Of Freedom
Which Tyson? Which Ross? Which Lin? (Not Jeremy. Michael Jordan and Kareem are on the list, though.) Who else is among the 21 honorees? Click and see.
The Year Of The African-American At A Somber 2016 National Book Awards
Of the four prizes, three – for fiction, nonfiction, and young people’s literature – went to black writers; the winning books deal with slavery, racism, and the civil rights struggle. (Why was the event somber? You know why.)
How Do You Make A War Movie Without Dialogue, Using Only Ballet? The BalletBoyz Found A Way
Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, the original BalletBoyz, write about how they and their company adapted their 2015 stage production Young Men into a full-length film.