“Switch is an evening conceived, choreographed and produced fully by the NDT performers … all profits from [which] go entirely to a community need the dancers hunt down themselves. … When they’ve targeted an organization, they look for ways to get involved beyond financial contribution. They volunteer their hours, they show up to teach free workshops, they raise awareness.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Elena Ferrante And Karl Ove Knausgaard (And What Preferring One Or The Other Says About You)
“The meta-question, of course, is what these affinities mean. What’s at stake when we opt for snow over sun, anger over awkwardness, herring over prosciutto, women over men, the north over the south, 1955 over 1985? What does our preference for Knausgaard or Ferrante suggest about us?”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.25.15
Meeting Half Way
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-03-25
Boffo Senufo: Companion Images for My WSJ Piece on Cleveland Museum’s African Show
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-03-25
What Makes a City Beautiful ?
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-03-25
cool concerts
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-03-25
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Time For Domingo To Retire, Says NY Times Chief Critic
Anthony Tommasini, reviewing Verdi’s Ernani at the Met: “The time to stop will just come to [Domingo] when it’s right, he explained. ‘I think it will be one evening,’ he said, ‘after a performance, to say, ‘That’s it.’ It may be the moment for Mr. Domingo to heed his own words.”
Couple Who Hid 271 Picassos In Garage For Four Decades Convicted
The court in a Côte d’Azur town gave Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec “a two-year suspended sentence, ending years of intrigue surrounding a mysterious suitcase full of drawings that the couple took to Paris in 2010 to show Claude Picasso, the late painter’s son who represents the artist’s heirs and estate.”
Akhil Sharma’s “Family Life” Wins £40,000 Folio Prize For Fiction
The Indian-American banker-turned-author won the second-ever award “for a novel which took him 13 long and painful years to complete, charting one emigrant family’s heartwrenching search for the American dream.”
Finalists For Man Booker International Prize 2015 Announced
Three African nations and one Caribbean island have authors on the shortlist for the first time; a few familiar names (Amitav Ghosh, László Krasznahorkai, Fanny Howe) made the cut, but literary stars Karl Ove Knausgaard and Haruki Murakami did not.
How A Bharatanatyam Choreographer Is Remaking French Ballet’s Great Chestnut About An Indian Temple Dancer
When Shobana Jeyasingh first heard of La Bayadère, she was excited at the idea of a classic ballet about someone like her. Of course La Bayadère bore no relationship to real Indian classical dance or dancers – until, that is, Jeyasingh got her hands on the piece. (includes video)
After Fire, London’s Battersea Arts Centre Gets £1 Million Emergency Funding
“Half the money will help the venue to find an off-site location that will enable it to accommodate productions that were due to be staged in the Grand Hall. The rest … will go towards BAC’s ongoing £13 million redevelopment project, which needed an additional £500,000 to reach its target.”
Málaga Tries To Make Itself Spain’s Newest Arts Hub
Francisco de la Torre, mayor since 2000 of the Andalusian seaside city, has attracted branches of such museums as the Pompidou, the Thyssen-Bornemisza, and the State Russian Museum – in a bid to make the city a destination for more than just cruise ships. Not all Malagueños are pleased, however.