“Foreclosure proceedings have been initiated against the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, and an auction of its landmark Schermerhorn Symphony Center has been scheduled for June 28. Formal notice of the foreclosure was issued by Bank of America, the lead lender on the $82.3 million still owed on the concert hall.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
How Roberto Bolaño Became Roberto Bolaño
The early short story collection Antwerp “finds Bolaño making the transition from poet to story writer – a transition he never fully completed, even in the almost nine-hundred pages of 2666. Always in his fiction the reader senses a discomfort with information revealed any way but indirectly.”
Shakespeare’s Globe To Send Its First Productions To Broadway
“The two-time Tony Award winner Mark Rylance will return to Broadway this fall to lead all-male ensembles in a double bill of Shakespeare, playing the besotted noblewoman Olivia in Twelfth Night and the titular monstrous monarch in Richard III.”
Russia’s Two Top Museums Fight Over Modernist Collection
“A row over Modernist masterpieces continues to simmer between the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and St Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum … The dispute involves dozens of works from the collections of Ivan Morozov and Sergei Shchukin, including paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse and Picasso, once housed in the State Museum of New Western Art in Moscow.”
All Philosophy Needs To Become Relevant Is A Good Marketing Plan
“If philosophy is so important, then selling itself to the culture at large is important too. So it’s time for philosophers to put their clothespins on their noses, wade into the stench of real-world commerce, and ask some of those tanned and toned marketing majors who skipped out on Philosophy 101 for some help.” After all, philosophy already has a popular product: thought experiments.
What Christians Can Learn From Listening To Young Atheists
Last year the Fixed Point Foundation began a nationwide campaign to interview members of college atheist groups. “The rules were simple: Tell us your journey to unbelief. It was not our purpose to dispute their stories or to debate the merits of their views. Not then, anyway. We just wanted to listen to what they had to say. And what they had to say startled us.”
New Zealand’s Only Modern Dance Company Set To Debut
“Until the formation of the Auckland-based The New Zealand Dance Company two years ago, there was only one national dance company – the Royal New Zealand Ballet. The last time we had two was Limbs Dance Company, which disbanded in 1989.” Now the New Zealand Dance Company is ready for its first performances in Wellington next week.
New Organization To Digitize Dance Performances For Smartphones
“An organisation that films new dance pieces so they can be downloaded from the internet and watched on mobile phones is launching this summer. Crystal Ballet, which has for its inaugural recording commissioned new works by choreographers Kim Brandstrup and Ernst Meisner, releases its first film on iTunes on July 1.”
Are Straight Actors Playing Gay Roles Doing The Equivalent Of Blackface?
Inspired by seeing the Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra and The Hangover Part III in the same evening, J. Bryan Lowder considers the question, “Does ‘gayface’ really deserve to be placed in the same awful category as racial impersonation, and if not, what makes it different?”
Hollywood’s Over-40 Actresses Are Refusing To Fade Away
Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy “are but two of the over-40 actresses whose careers aren’t just thriving but dominating big castings in Hollywood. For decades, middle-aged actresses largely were relegated to the sidelines in studio films, fighting for supporting roles.” No more.