“[The] small off-Loop company that is the subject of published allegations of intimidation, sexual misconduct and unsafe stage combat is shutting down permanently.” Artistic director Darrell Cox, the alleged abuser, “declined to speak in person or on the phone but agreed through a spokesman to respond to a series of written questions.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Getting *Really* Creative In Finding Space To Practice One’s Art In New York
One group develops and performs new plays in bookstores – during business hours. Another builds movable spaces on wheels, as if they were food trucks. Another, comparing itself to Airbnb (some of you will know Groupmuse), updates the 19th-century classical house concert. (audio)
A New Museum Of The American Revolution In Philadelphia
“Visitors will traverse an arc of galleries that lead chronologically through the revolution, from its beginnings in disgruntled Boston to its conclusion on the fields of Yorktown and beyond, to the treaty of Paris and the writing of the U.S. Constitution in Philadelphia. The dramatic highlight of this presentation will be a full gallery for display of the museum’s most intriguing artifact – Washington’s field tent [from Valley Forge].”
For The First Time, Broadway Will Live-Stream A Show
“The Metropolitan Opera has been transmitting performances live for a decade. The National Theater in London jumped on board a few years later. But Broadway, facing both financial and philosophical obstacles, has been slow to join the trend. Now, after years of start-and-stop progress, Broadway is passing a milestone.”
A National Day Of Action To Make Arts An Issue In Australia’s Election
“Arts and theatre organisations, artists and industry professionals will hold a national day of action for the arts on Friday 17 June, to galvanise renewed public support of the culture industries … The day of action will springboard into two weeks of campaigning for the arts around the country … [to combat] the ‘chaos’ caused by recent funding cuts from the Turnbull and Abbott governments.”
Five Join The Ranks Of NEA Jazz Masters
“The National Endowment for the Arts has named its 2017 NEA Jazz Masters: the musicians – Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dave Holland, Dr. Lonnie Smith and Dick Hyman – and the jazz historian Ira Gitler. Each will each receive $25,000 and be honored at a tribute concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on April 3, 2017.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.15.16
“What Is an Art Museum?” Some 50 AAMD Members Tell Us (video)
For museum junkies like me, the video below, produced by the Association of Art Museum Directors in connection with its 100th birthday, is a delight – not only for the contagious enthusiasm and astute insights … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-06-15
How urgent is diversity?
The subject of the [LAO] conference, as I said, was diversity. … One question not asked, though, was how urgent this journey is. I thought of posing the question, but then thought it wasn’t my role to prod these good people, or to seem to be doing that. … But I will pose my question here. If classical music — orchestras included — needs to be more diverse, how urgent is that? … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-06-15
A Music Theater Work in Progress
Truth, or at least the effort to capture it, can be problematic. William Osborne and Abbie Conant have been working for several years on Aletheia, a music theater chamber piece for performance artist and digital piano. … read more
AJBlog: Straight|Up Published 2016-06-15
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The Lost Masterpiece Of Pakistan’s Avant-Garde Cinema (?)
“Pakistani cinema is assumed to have been untouched by the 20th century’s avant-garde film movements. But, with its documentary treatment of village life, labour and capitalist exploitation bearing recognisable traces of socialist realism, Italian neo-realism and Indian parallel cinema, Day Shall Dawn proves otherwise. The intimate involvement of revered poet [Faiz Ahmad] Faiz – credited with story, lyrics and dialogue – adds gravitas to an already intriguing endeavour.”
The World’s First International Sex Advice Expert (She Was Also A Suffragette) Insisted On Female Pleasure
With her 1918 book Married Love (Downton Abbey fans may recognize the title) “prompting a tidal wave of correspondence,” Marie Stopes became “the closest thing to an expert on sexual equality that the early 20th century ever had – despite, as all evidence suggests, her being a virgin herself.”
Medieval Graffiti, And All The Things We Can Learn From It
For one thing, explains historian and archaeologist Matthew Champion, there’s a lot of it, especially in churches – faces, hands, personal marks, horses, geese, “witch marks” made with compasses, sailing ships, demons (but no angels) – and it provides some of the only direct evidence we have of the medieval European 99%.