Failure or Success: What are we more afraid of? A Leading Innovation in Arts & Culture Conversation
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Sotheby’s Roars Back In American Art
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Oops: There’s Bigger News From Sotheby’s
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Revealed: Roman Hoard, Found In France, Conserved Here
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Author: Matthew Westphal
Mike Nichols, 83
Over a six-decade career as a performer, director and producer, he racked up a Grammy, at least two Emmys, nine Tonys (!), only one Oscar (surprisingly), a National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors – and had a profound effect on American theater and film.
The Only Three Kinds Of Scenes, According To Mike Nichols
The great director liked to say that “there are only three kinds of scenes: a fight, a seduction or a negotiation.” Dana Stevens explains – and argues that his best scenes were all three at once.
Phil Klay, Evan Osnos, Louise Gluck Win National Book Awards
“Former Marine Phil Klay took home the [award] for fiction, winning the prize for his debut short story collection Redeployment. … Journalist Evan Osnos won the National [award] in nonfiction for his impressively subtitled book, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China.” Louise Gluck’s Faithful and Virtuous Night took the prize for poetry.
Miami’s Getting Another Arts Center, Complete With Starchitect Design
“A new Miami Beach arts center designed by Rem Koolhaas is to open in December 2015 … Called Faena Forum, the 50,000-square-foot institution … will serve as a public forum for the exploration of topics in the arts, sciences, technology, politics and urbanism. It will also encourage dialogue about Latin American cultural practices.”
How Dance Came To Be Used To Treat Parkinson’s Disease
“Westheimer knew how valuable the dancers’ expertise in balance, rhythm, control and sequencing might be to sufferers of Parkinson’s. … Two members of the Mark Morris Dance Group, with a composer and pianist, began giving free monthly classes for the [Brooklyn Parkinson Group]. The sessions have since developed into an extensive programme.”
China Delays Release Of Latest “Hunger Games” Film – To Protect Domestic Industry
“The China release date for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 has been pushed back until January 2015, sources in Beijing said, as film authorities try to balance domestic and foreign box office totals before the year end.”
Can Theatre Make Audiences Better Citizens?
A report from early this year argues that performing arts “are inherently social arts and provide a necessary opportunity to develop the skills of socialisation and communication required by a healthy democracy.” Maddy Costa writes about how she’s exploring that idea in her London theatre festival, Dialogue.
Times Square Livecast Of “Side Show” Was Not, In Fact, Live
“A bid to make Broadway history by broadcasting a scene from the opening night performance of the musical “Side Show” live in Times Square didn’t come off as planned, though the crowd that gathered to watch in the rain may not have known what they were missing at all.”
Whitney Museum’s New Home Has An Opening Date
“The Whitney Museum of American Art’s new Renzo Piano-designed building in Manhattan’s meatpacking district is to open on May 1.”