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Author: Matthew Westphal
Macedonians Form Human Chain To Protect Modernist Building From Added Baroque Façade
“The protest was part of a series of events starting in 2013 that have attempted to stall this aspect of the creeping Skopje 2014 project, a controversial and costly plan to give the city’s buildings makeover in the neoclassical or baroque style.”
The 100 Most Influential People In British Theatre For 2015
Topping The Stage 100 for the sixth year running are the co-founders and co-CEOs of Ambassador Theatre Group, Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire. In fact, eight of the top ten slots are held by duos rather than individuals.
Two Of Paris’s Most Important Theatres Will Go Dark For Two Seasons
“The Théâtre de la Ville and the Théâtre du Châtelet … will close for extensive renovations at the end of the 2016 season, darkening the houses for one and a half to two years. The theaters, which face each other on the Place du Châtelet, next to the Seine in the heart of the city, were designed by Gabriel Davioud and constructed between 1860 and 1862.”
Actor Edward Herrmann Dead At 71
“The 6-foot-5 actor schooled in London was a natural to play aristocrats and authority figures” – from Nelson Rockefeller and editor Max Eastman on film to FDR and (much more recently) the grandfather in Gilmore Girls. Those roles were but part of wide-ranging career including everything from a Tony-winning performance in a Bernard Shaw play to being a spokesmodel for Dodge cars.
Cuban Performance Artist Detained And Released Three Times In Two Days
“The artist, Tania Bruguera, who was born in Cuba and splits her time between there and New York, had made clear in statements after her initial detention this week that she was determined to see the release of everyone else who had been detained” in a crackdown on opponents of the Castro government this week.
No More White Politicos In Blackface For Madrid’s Three Kings Day Parade, Demand Activists
“Tired of seeing white politicians ‘black up’ for a children’s post-Christmas street parade, almost 62,000 people have signed an online petition demanding that Madrid council choose a black man to play the role of Balthazar in the city’s Three Kings cavalcade next week.”
They’ve Gone Mad For Tango In Tbilisi
“Caminar, cruce, gancho, ocho. The dance steps are not usually associated with the South Caucasus, but thanks to a prolonged period of stability following Georgia’s 2003 Rose Revolution the country is increasingly connected to the outside world – and starting to enjoy pastimes that come from afar.”
Ricardo Porro, 89, Visionary Architect Championed, Then Spurned By Fidel Castro
“[He] lived long enough to see his two National Art Schools – begun during a utopian moment in the Cuban revolution, then abandoned as counterrevolutionary – newly embraced around the world as the crown jewels of modern Cuban architecture.”
Buddhism, Stoicism, Shmoicism – Do We Really Want To Transcend Suffering?
Todd May: “In their official guise, these doctrines are examples of what I am going to label ‘invulnerabilism.’ They say that we can, and we should, make ourselves immune to the world’s vicissitudes. … Instead, I want to say that most of us, when we really reflect upon our lives, would not want what is officially on offer, but instead something else.”