“The reason for the restriction is the threat of accidental damage to museum exhibits and art work, like potentially tearing through a rare Picasso painting at the Met. Stopping to position for a selfie can also lead to congestion in already crowded museums.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Ballet’s Tormented Superstar Sergei Polunin Stars In Pop Music Video
The gifted young Ukrainian, who became the youngest principal ever at London’s Royal Ballet and then abruptly bolted from the company in 2012, is burning up the Web with a new video, directed by David LaChapelle, of Hozier’s hit “Take Me to Church.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.10.15
Price discrimination, time and money at the theatre
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Why Beauty in a Business School?
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College Art Association’s Guidelines for Appropriation Art
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What Alan Gilbert Has (And Hasn’t) Achieved At The New York Philharmonic
“Make no mistake: Gilbert is a first-rate musician – you don’t get re-engaged by the Metropolitan Opera for nothing – and has a bright future ahead of him, part of which might well be in New York, owing to his presence on the faculty of Juilliard. But the musical bond between him and the players has been of a unique inconsistency.”
What “Boyhood” Shows Us About Girlhood
“As the title declares, the film is very much a boy’s coming-of-age story, but Boyhood is also about girlhood. Mason has a sister, Samantha, who grows up alongside him over the course of the 12 years it took to make the film.” Her trajectory is, in its way, as telling as his.
Just What Exactly Has The National Gallery in D.C. Taken From The Corcoran?
Philip Kennicott: “Ever since [the two institutions’ merger], the National Gallery has been on a Falstaffian mission, the art-world equivalent of a six-month hot-dog-eating contest. Curators throughout the museum describe an unprecedented process, sorting through, analyzing and making a first round of decisions about what to accession, and what to set aside for future consideration, including possible distribution to other museums around the District.”
Composer Marvin David Levy Dead At 82
“[Levy] shot to fame at age 35 when his opera, Mourning Becomes Electra, premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in its inaugural season at Lincoln Center in 1967.”
The Playwright Whose Work Is Never Done (In More Than One Sense)
“Terrence McNally plays are like city buses: They sweep by, may not take you where you think you’re going, and, when absent for a while, suddenly arrive in droves and from all directions.”
The Christmas Gift That Made “To Kill A Mockingbird” Possible
“The book is now so central to our culture that it exudes an air of inevitability. But that wasn’t the case one Christmas Day on the Upper East Side of New York, when the literary existence of Scout and Atticus and Boo depended on a tired but determined Harper Lee. And on an envelope in a tree.” (audio)
Meet The Russians’ Favorite American – Who May Be About To Lose A Lot Of That Favor
Odin Biron, a wholesome young man from Minnesota who went to study at the Moscow Art Theater, is now a hugely popular actor who co-stars in one of Russia’s most-watched sitcoms and is playing the lead in an acclaimed staging of Gogol’s Dead Souls. Now he’s going public with a fact that could end his career in Russia.