“Do other theatregoers feel short-changed if the play lasts less time than it takes to get to the theatre or have a pre-show cup of tea and a slice of cake?” (Does it depend at all on how much they paid for tickets?)
Author: Matthew Westphal
Did An Unknown Delacroix Just Turn Up In California?
“Eik Kahng, curator at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, believes she has identified a previously unknown painting by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863). Given the stature of the French Romantic innovator, that’s no small thing.”
The Royal Tenenbaums Had Nothing On Anjelica Huston’s Real Family
In an excerpt from her new memoir, the Oscar-winning actress and scion of Hollywood royalty recounts her early years in Ireland and London, alternately isolated on a country estate and surrounded by the famous and glamorous.
UK Theatres To Expand Scheme Of Disability- And Autism-Friendly Performances
“All eight venues that took part in the Relaxed Performance Pilot Project – in which shows were adapted for families with children who have autistic, sensory and communication needs or learning disabilities – have now adopted a policy to stage relaxed performances on a regular basis. Organisations including the National Theatre, the Unicorn Theatre and Ambassador Theatre Group have committed to at least one relaxed performance a year for each of their main productions.”
Billionaire Steve Cohen To Sell Off $80M Worth Of Art
The hedge fund mogul, a very high-profile collector, “is now parting with about $80 million worth of blue-chip art … [including works] by Brice Marden, Rudolf Stingel and Cy Twombly, along with previously reported Warhols and a Gerhard Richter.”
Nicole Kidman On Hollywood Vs. Nashville And Her Career
“There’s an enormous amount you have to give up if you want to have a family. You can have a certain career, but you can’t be living in Hollywood, [where] absolutely everything, everything revolves around it. That wasn’t my choice. I’d rather revolve around somebody else’s career and then still find my own.”
The Most Horrifying Thing Marie Chouinard Ever Made Her Dancers Do
The Montreal choreographer “has called on her dancers to do some pretty outrageous things over the past 20 years, but even the veterans of her company were left open-mouthed by her demand during the creation of Gymnopédies.” (Hint: it’s something they usually pay other people to do.)
The World’s Hippest New Concert Hall Is An Inflatable Purple Doughnut
Designed by sculptor Anish Kapoor and architect Arata Isozaki, created in response to Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami to be portable and quick to set up, Ark Nova is a 60-foot-tall eggplant-colored structure “[whose] ceiling and walls are simply a PVC-coated polyester membrane that is held aloft by air from giant fans.”
Why Live Cinemacasts Of Theatre Work So Much Better Than Mere DVDs
David Sabel, who runs the National Theatre’s NT Live: “The track record of filmed live performance is quite bad – the fear is that it becomes the antithesis of what the art form is. … The idea that you go along, get a piece of paper like a programme and hopefully watch with a sold-out crowd feels more akin to the DNA of theatre than staying at home and pausing while you go off to make a cup of tea.”
Alexander Calder’s Heirs Accuse Longtime Dealer Of Fraud
“In a recently amended complaint filed in New York State Supreme Court, the Calder estate says” that Klaus G. Perls and his wife, who represented the sculptor for 22 years before Calder’s death in 1976 – “surreptitiously held on to hundreds of Calder’s works and swindled the artist’s estate out of tens of millions of dollars.”