Adjaye in Play? What’s Behind Worldwide Search for Obama Center’s Architect?
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-08-26
Jaki Byard And Musique du bois
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-08-26
Snapshot: Bette Davis and Bert Lahr on The Hollywood Palace
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-08-26
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Author: Matthew Westphal
Two Aspen Music Festival Fellows Killed In Crash
Trumpeter Alex Greene, 23 and a student at the Curtis Institute, and tuba player Ben Darneille, 21 and studying at DePaul University, died in a in a car accident near Rock Springs, Wyoming on Monday night .
Getting A Ticket To Banksy’s Dismaland Theme Park Is A Nightmare (That’s Gotta Be What He Wanted)
The website crashed from all the traffic, and people have to stand in line queue for hours at the gate.
Deep Inside Dismaland, Banksy’s ‘Bemusement Park’
“A guide to the galleries, rides and subversive installations of Banksy’s weird wonderland in Weston-super-Mare, with commentary from the man himself.” (interactive media)
The Great Divide In Contemporary Opera
David Patrick Stearns: “If music is the universal language it’s often proclaimed to be, why has nothing close to a consensus emerged on the two high-profile opera openings of the summer? … The division is emblematic of a continuing split between composers who draw from such past tonal composers as Samuel Barber and those arising from a more recent modernist past; Cold Mountain belongs to the former and Written on Skin the latter.”
Is A Career Making Independent Feature Films Even Possible Anymore, Even For Well-Known Directors?
“It’s not just that the likes of Spike Lee and Hal Hartley have had to go to Kickstarter to fund their projects: Frederick Wiseman and Abel Ferrara have seen their recent crowdfunding campaigns fail. “Having lived and worked in an era with fewer players and a lot more money, many of these artists are now faced with shrinking budgets and crowded release windows … If they want to continue making features, it seems they’ll have to get used to it. Which begs the question, is it still worth it?”
Post Cate Blanchett-Andrew Upton Era At Sydney Theatre Company Has Its Leader
The new artistic director at Australia’s leading theater will be Jonathan Church, outgoing director of England’s Chichester Festival Theatre, which he transformed from a fading regional company to a powerhouse that regularly sends produxtions to the West End and Broadway.
Why Marion True Should Definitely Write Her Memoir
Christopher Knight: “Her hesitation is understandable, given the relentless, often inflammatory media glare that accompanied her unprecedented 2005 indictment by an Italian court on charges of being part of a stolen-art ring. … Settling history is more important. A central irony in the case remains unresolved.”
US Airways Loses, Then Finds, Eight Violins – And No One Knows How
“The eight instruments were packaged in a shipping truck and checked in as oversized baggage at Barcelona on 19 August. However the truck failed to appear at its destination and airline staff were unable to inform Kulosa of its whereabouts.” The instruments were returned on August 23, even as some airline reps continued to insist they knew nothing about them.
Universal Pictures Sets Record For Most Lucrative Year Ever: $3.78 Billion
“Internationally, the studio has four of the top five highest-grossing films of the year: Fast & Furious 7 (No. 1 with $1.162 billion), Jurassic World (No. 2 with $983.5 million), Minions (No. 4 with $670.2 million) and Fifty Shades of Grey (No. 5 with $404.1 million).”