Book Expo America hoped that its first-ever pop-culture-oriented day for consumers, BookCon, would have Comic Con-level excitement and marketing power. But they forgot to plan for Comic Con-level crowds and behavior.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Two Royal Ballet Dancers Withdraw From Russia Tour To Protest Anti-Gay Laws
“The unnamed dancers – one male, one female – have pulled out of the tour which begins next week. The snub will embarrass Mr Putin, as Russia, boasting the Bolshoi in Moscow and the Mariinsky (formerly the Kirov) in St Petersburg, is widely considered the home of classical ballet.”
Exodus At National Academy Museum: Is It Financial Or Personal?
“The National Academy Museum and School has let go several members of its staff, including both its registrars, the marketing director, the building manager and senior curator Bruce Weber.” Other staffers, including the contemporary curator, have left for other jobs. Some argue that the layoffs are to combat a persistent operating deficit; others report that the situation is due to the elevation of a new creative director.
Remaking The Costumes For A 50-Year-Old Balanchine Classic
“Figuring out how to remake 104 of the costumes that the designer Barbara Karinska created more than a half-century ago for the fairies and foolish mortals of George Balanchine’s ballet A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Tuesday night’s opening performance required detective work, millinery archaeology and a scavenger hunt for material that eventually led to three continents.”
Watching ‘Top Gun’ As An Art Object
“More than anything else, it is a work of dazzling formal and poetic brilliance, a kind of study of filmic choreography. George Balanchine has nothing on Tony Scott’s exhibition of counterpoint and organization as men and fighter planes maneuver on the deck of an aircraft carrier.”
The First Psychology Research Term To Be In The Urban Dictionary
The term is “p-hacking”, and it seems to lie at the heart of a growing “replication crisis” in the field of psychology – “a lack of confidence in the reality of many published psychological results.”
What Are We Losing As We Give Up On Handwriting?
It may be that we’re losing some real cognitive development and memory ability.
When Maya Angelou Told Me, ‘You May Now Kiss My Cheek’
It was much less grandiose and more affectionate than it looks in a headline – or, for that matter, than journalist Dawn Reiss had expected when she received a list of “communication courtesy” instructions prior to interviewing Dr. Angelou.
What Those Cheekbones On Angelina Jolie In ‘Maleficent’ Mean
“So why choose to accentuate the zygomatics to transform a former Sexiest Woman in the World into a mystical villainess?” (They were prosthetics, by the way.)
Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.02.14
Devining “Artistic Excellence”
AJBlog: We The Audience | Published 2014-06-01
Another concert for today
(or, Living composer sells out 2400-seat concert hall, and audience roars for him)
AJBlog: Sandow | Published 2014-05-30
News Flash: Financially Challenged National Academy Restructures and “Streamlines” Its Staff
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-06-02
Malaga: A Different Version of Bilbao?
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-06-02
Blurring Thresholds
AJBlog: Dancebeat | Published 2014-06-02
Film tax credits, jobs, and lost incomes
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth | Published 2014-06-02
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