“Bollywood has a long history of portraying gay characters with clichés or using them as an ostensibly comic sideshow. Often they are sexual predators whom the male leads, epitomes of heterosexual masculinity, must be wary of. But several recent movies have challenged those stereotypes, suggesting that attitudes in India’s movie industry, or at least within an influential section of it, may be changing.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
This Year’s Tonys Could Be The Opposite Of #OscarsSoWhite
The slate of nominees for 2016’s Broadway awards looks likely to be the most diverse in history – and not only because of Hamilton.
Utah Symphony, Once Foundering, Is On An Upswing, Thanks In Part To Government Funding (!)
The orchestra – which has a popular and energetic music director (Thierry Fischer), big education and state touring programs, and growth in both single-ticket sales and subscriptions – gets nearly a fifth of its operating revenue from state and local governments.
Melbourne Symphony Posts Both Record Attendance And Deficit
“The $577,653 deficit, detailed in its annual report, comes after the MSO ended 2014 with more than $200,000 in surplus. The orchestra actually increased its box office takings last year ($10.2 million up from $10 million) but chairman Michael Ullman said it wasn’t enough.”
Dance World Reels From Dismissals At Pennsylvania Ballet
“Within hours of the [Inquirer] article being published, it spread like wildfire among dancers on social media. Many were outraged. Others expressed sympathy for the company members who were let go. But I’ve also seen comments from Philadelphians who are very happy with Angel’s vision and welcome the changes. It’s a big change, and one I’d say many expected.” Which makes it no easier for the now-out-of-work dancers.
Is This How The Civil War At Romania’s National Ballet Got Started?
The conflict over Johan Kobborg’s job as artistic director of the Bucharest National Opera’s ballet company has spun out of control. Craig Turp traces the seeds of the trouble to a right-wing nationalist website, and he gives a solid recap and analysis in English of how the mess has unfolded so far.
Billionaire Didn’t Realize Her Picasso Had Been Stolen Until A Dealer Tried To Sell It
Billie Tisch (widow of Laurence Tisch of Loews Corp. and CBS) has sued South Florida art dealer Kenneth Hendel for the return of a 1928 portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter that she last saw in 2009 but didn’t know had been taken until a few weeks ago. Hendel insists he purchased the painting lawfully and has legal title to it.
ISIS Destroys Two City Gates In Nineveh
“National Geographic has received exclusive photographs that appear to confirm the destruction of the Mashki and Nergal Gates by the Islamic State (ISIS) at the ancient site of Nineveh in Iraq.”
A Symphony For Tape Decks (Talk About Historical Instruments …)
No Sharps, No Flats is an installation made up of 30 partially deconstructed boom boxes with tape decks, each one containing a composition by metro D.C. musicians. All of the music is in C major. Harmonious? Not for long – because it’s all on cassette tape, which has problems you youngsters don’t know about and the rest of us may have forgotten …
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.27.16
My Q&A with President Daniel Weiss–Part II: Financial Impact of Met Breuer & Planned New Wing
While implicitly faulting the Metropolitan Museum’s administration for not having managed its operations “in a way that’s financially sustainable,” Daniel Weiss, who has been the Met’s president since July, diplomatically avoided … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-04-27
The Beyoncé challenge
We live in such a varied culture. Hard for anyone to keep track of more than a small part of it. But sometimes something comes along that you just can’t miss, and don’t want … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-04-27
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