Mark Monahan: “Look back over the new and recent work that the Royal Ballet performed at Covent Garden in 2015, and it is hard to feel much festive cheer.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
16th-Century ‘Shakespeare Theatre Of The North’ May Be Built Near Liverpool
Architect Inigo Jones’s design for the Cockpit Theatre would be used for the playhouse and education centre on the site of an Elizabethan-era theatre – England’s only freestanding, purpose-built playhouse outside London at the time – in the Merseyside town of Prescot.
Montserrat Caballé Gets Big Fine, Six-Month Sentence For Tax Evasion
“Ms Caballé, who is 82 years old and has avoided public engagements due to frail health since a stroke in 2012, admitted that she had pretended to reside in the low-tax principality of Andorra when in fact she had continued to live in Barcelona.” While her jail sentence has been suspended, she will pay fines totaling well over a quarter of a million euros.
The Man Who Created A Movie Industry In Tiny Bhutan Dies Suddenly At 43
Tshering Wangyel wrote, directed and shot at least two films a year – and for years carried a portable screen, projector and generator himself to villages throughout the Himalayan kingdom. His Bollywood-meets-Buddhism style ultimately became more popular with Bhutanese audiences than the Indian movies that had dominated the market.
Arthur Miller’s Very First Script Gets The World Premiere He Wouldn’t Give It
“The staging of the play, No Villain, a nakedly autobiographical story that Miller wrote in 1936 as a 20-year-old sophomore at the University of Michigan, was scheduled to open on Thursday night, capping a banner year for the playwright in England.”
It’s Good To Be Confused – Sometimes
“One possibility is that confusion is not itself beneficial, but rather a marker that an important cognitive process has taken place: The learner has appreciated some inconsistency or deficit in her prior beliefs. But another possibility is that confusion is itself a step toward learning – an experience that motivates the learner to reconcile an inconsistency or remedy some deficit”
How Bad Behavior Online Is Like The Masked Mayhem Of Every Age
“Every human culture has used masks for ritual disinhibition, shaming and play. Is being online the ultimate masquerade?”
Univ. of Kentucky Covers Depression-Era Mural After Debate Over Racial Imagery
“Universities across the country are having productive conversations about race and representation, but what happens when campus public art is caught in the crossfire between a desire to preserve history and cultural sensitivity?”
South Korea’s Art Community Demands Wholesale Reform Following Controversial Museum Appointment
“The appointment of a new director to South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) last week has extenuated the concerns of the country’s art community over issues of government and institutional censorship, with hundreds of arts professionals signing a statement pressuring the museum to publicly declare internal policy reforms.”
The Murdered Writers Of Bangladesh
“For Bangladeshi authors and bloggers, religious fanaticism is putting their security and freedom of speech at stake, in a level of repression only comparable to dictatorial regimes of the past. K Anis Ahmed explains what it means to be a writer in Bangladesh’s harrowing ‘new normal.'”