Sixty-Four Minutes With Rebecka was planned as part of a joint project with Federico Fellini and Akira Kurosawa that never panned out. Now it’s going to be filmed by Suzanne Osten, a director with whom Bergman feuded from the 1960s until his death.
Author: Matthew Westphal
What’s The Source Of The Problems At Philly’s Biggest Funder? An Auditor Names Names
Lisa Ranghelli of Philamplify, which conducted a formal assessment of the William Penn Foundation in 2014: “We didn’t call out specific individuals in our report, but perhaps our choice to be circumspect merely helps perpetuate the problem.”
Portland Symphony Musicians Get Four-Year Contract With Real Raises
There’ll be a 4% pay increase in each of the first two years, with compensation to be reviewed thereafter.
Producers Of Broadway’s Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812′ Offer To Settle Lawsuit Over Credit
Five little words – “the Ars Nova Production of” – ahead of the show’s title in the Playbill led to an ugly dispute that got into both the press and the legal system, and now the show’s producers want to make it go away.
Another Gem From The New Mother Lode Of Opera Voices, South Africa
Meet Noluvuyiso Mpofu. (includes audio)
Tammy Grimes, The Original Unsinkable Molly Brown, Dead At 82
She won her first Tony for playing the Titanic survivor in the Meredith Wilson musical – and her second for Private Lives by Noël Coward, who first discovered her way back when.
How Is Julie Kent Changing The Washington Ballet?
She took over from Septime Webre as artictic director in July, and her first changes are just starting to show up. Jennifer Stahl gives us a rundown of what they look like so far.
What Myanmar’s Strange And Empty New Capital Says About The Future Of Travel And Tourism
Naypyidaw, which the now-ousted military junta built a few years ago to move the government to the country’s interior and away from the full-of-dissenters capital of Yangon, is notorious for having showy buildings and enormous highways with mothing much in, on, or behind them. But its most popular building gets lots of great reviews on social media, so travelers keep turning up.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.31.16
Artificial Intelligence Invades The Museum and Art Worlds
“It’s a massively ambitious project.” That is Tony Guillan, a multimedia producer for the Tate museum, in the U.K, speaking. … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2016-10-30
The ties that bind
I was nosing around Facebook the other day when I stumbled across a reproduction of a picture postcard that bore on its face an ancient black-and-white photograph of the first church that I can remember … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2016-10-31
we saw her fall
For years, I’ve wanted to create something that would capture the sense of helplessness I feel in the face of horrific onscreen images, the kinds of clips that 24-hour news programming seems to specialize in. … read more
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2016-10-31
“I’m Still Here” (despite buyouts): My Q&A with Keith Christiansen at the Met’s “Valentin de Boulogne”
By some strange curatorial telepathy, the Metropolitan Museum’s justly acclaimed “Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio” bears a title closely resembling that of a major show at another world-class museum: … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-10-31
Monday Recommendation: Fred Hersch Trio
Fred Hersch Trio, Floating (Palmetto)
I’m not sure how this 2014 CD ended up in the holding pen for so long, but I am delighted that it finally called to me from the stacks. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-10-31
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Elizabeth Bishop’s Last Love Affair
In 1971, three years after the suicide of her Brazilian partner, the still-grieving poet came to Harvard to fill in for the on-sabbatical Robert Lowell. There she fell for the 27-year-old house secretary – with her “blue blue blue” eyes – of the dorm where Bishop was staying.