“Of late, though, Criterion has brought its touch to the trailer business with an entertaining and thoughtful series of online promotional teasers that interpret, rather than simply hype, their films – in less than two minutes.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Mary Ward Brown, Prize-Winning Short Story Author, Dead At 95
“[She was] a small-town farmer’s daughter who resumed a literary career 25 years after putting it aside to run the family farm and raise a son, producing award-winning short stories set in the Deep South and a poignant memoir of life in rural Alabama.”
Orlando Philharmonic Buys Itself A Theater
The orchestra “is buying the iconic Plaza Live Theatre on Bumby Avenue, where [it] will update the 1,000-seat music hall to accommodate chamber music concerts while also keeping a schedule of rock, jazz, comedy and contemporary music shows.”
Georges Moustaki, 79, French Singer-Songwriter
“He was introduced to Edith Piaf in the late 1950s and started to write songs for the Parisian star, the most famous of which was ‘Milord’ … Developing a reputation as a singer in his own right in the mid-1960s, the hirsute and heavily bearded Moustaki achieved fame with songs including the immigrant ballad ‘Le Métèque’ and ‘Ma Liberté’, a hymn to the 1960s free-living spirit.”
British Equity Worries About Increase In Nudity Requests
“Fears have been raised [by the actors’ union] about the increasing number of acting jobs that require nudity, and the possibility that actors refusing to take their clothes off at castings are being denied work.”
Hirshhorn Museum Director Resigns Over ‘Bubble’ Project Delays
“Richard Koshalek, the high-profile director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, announced his decision to resign by the end of the year after the Hirshhorn board’s split vote Thursday on the fate of the Seasonal Inflatable Structure project, informally known as the ‘Bubble’.”
Tate Britain Buys Constable For £23M To Share With Regional Galleries
“A turbulent landscape in which storm clouds and sunlight vie for mastery over Salisbury Cathedral, which John Constable hoped would help secure his eternal reputation as an artist of genius, has been acquired by the Tate … will be shared and travel between a group of regional museums, including the national galleries of Wales and Scotland.”
Pina Bausch’s Successor Named At Tanztheater Wuppertal
This summer, four years after Bausch’s sudden death, dance educator and former company member Lutz Förster will take over as artistic director of the provincial German company that Bausch made world-famous. He is not a choreographer, and he says that “there will be no new productions until 2015.”
Was This Modern Dance Pioneer Forgotten Because She Got Too Cozy With The Nazis?
“Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham and Bronislava Nijinska are regularly invoked to recall a golden age of female creativity and power. These women … had a transforming influence on the language and practice of dance. And there is one more name that should also be added to the list: the German choreographer Mary Wigman.”
Images From The Birth Of British Modern Dance
“In the process of a move from [Rambert Dance Company’s] old London base in Chiswick to their new South Bank headquarters, photographs of their history have been catalogued for the first time, providing a fascinating record of how an artform was created – and an audience for it.”