If anyone would know how to recover from injury, it’s ballet dancers.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Is Ai Weiwei Even An Artist Anymore?
Jonathan Jones: “Ai Weiwei is the most important artist in the world right now, a visionary who is defying an entire political system. He is a hero. And yet, is he actually an artist at all? Has his art vanished into the storm of polemic?”
What Do Auden, Sartre, And Ayn Rand Have In Common?
Amphetamines.
Ex-Employee At Atlanta’s Woodruff Arts Center Pleads Guilty To Embezzlement
“[Ralph] Clark started working at the Woodruff Arts Center in 2004 as a heating and air conditioning mechanic. By the time he left, eight years later, he had risen through the ranks and embezzled $1.1 million from the city’s largest cultural organization.”
Nine Letters From Young J.D. Salinger Come To Light
From the 22-year-old author to a young lady in Toronto: “I’ll try a couple more [short stories], anyway, and if I begin to miss my mark I’ll quit.”
Candle Lighting In A New Jacobean Theatre? Bad Idea
“Shakespeare’s Globe plans ‘authentic’ illumination for its new indoor Jacobean playhouse – what next, bear-baiting before the play?”
Cooper Union Will Begin Charging Tuition
“The decision ends almost two years of roiling debate about an education that was long revered for being ‘free as air and water,’ and stood as the [art, architecture and technology] school’s most distinguishing feature.” The fees will be on what the college calls a “steeply sliding scale.”
Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale To Become A Ballet
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet will open its 2013-2014 season with “a new adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. It’s a project that’s been in the works for eight years, with New York’s Lila York choreographing the dance to the music of James MacMillan.”
Warner Bros. Enlists Walmart Stores to Promote Man of Steel
“In an unusual promotional partnership that starts on May 18, customers at 3,718 Walmart stores in the United States will be able to buy tickets to early screenings of Man of Steel, the coming Superman movie from Warner Brothers.”
A New Museum On Mexico City’s Millionaires’ Row
The Jumex Collection, a five-story building designed by architect David Chippenfield to house the contemporary art collection of fruit juice magnate Eugenio López, will open in November – right next door to the Museo Soumaya, the museum built by billionaire Carlos Slim Helu.