After 12 years of planning and a further 22 years of conservation work, all ten panels from the … Florentine Renaissance masterpiece by Lorenzo Ghiberti, have been restored to their former glory … The monumental set of gilded bronze doors, constructed between 1425 and 1452, stand at just over five metres tall and contain scenes from the Old Testament.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Orlando Ballet’s New CEO Wants To Go Places
Mark Hough “means that literally. Since he took up the post in mid-April, he has been reaching out to places like Jacksonville and Melbourne [Florida] to see if there’s interest in hosting Orlando Ballet shows there.” He means it figuratively, too, of course, and he’s a longtime friend and colleague (from their ABT days) of company artistic director Robert Hill.
Comparing Savion Glover And Fred Astaire On YouTube
Judith Mackrell: “Reviews of Glover routinely put him and Astaire at extreme ends of the tap spectrum: dreadlocks v. top hat, grunge v. tails. … But watching the clips side by side it’s clear that, however disparate their styles, these dancers have the same DNA.”
Scotland Backs Off, Temporarily, Switch To Project-Based Funding
“Creative Scotland, the Scottish arts funding quango, has delayed by six months its controversial proposal to remove flexible funding from 49 cultural organisations” in favor of per-project grants made from the Lottery fund.
Boosters Try To Reboot Fundraising For New Orlando Arts Center
Construction began a year ago on the first phase of the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, which will include two halls. But backers still need $75 million for the second phase, a venue for Orlando’s orchestra and opera and ballet companies – and the effort to raise that money has stalled.
A Cultural Paralympics: Orchestra Of Disabled Musicians Formed For London Cultural Olympiad
Conductor Charles Hazlewood writes about The British Paraorchestra, the ensemble of 18 disabled musicians he founded and is set to lead in its debut.
Is It Possible To Keep The Entire Plot Of A New Play Secret?
“Two London venues – the Royal Court and the National Theatre – have, though, recently gone further and tried to keep quiet the entire content of a play until audiences were able to see it … [The principals] seem to have felt, in common with many other creative professionals, that the intensive multimedia publicity business is increasingly disabling two of the most powerful tactics of narrative art: surprise and suspense.”
Helping Refugees Turn Their Tales Of Flight Into Theatre
In a workshop this week near Glasgow, Dutch theatre artist Annet Henneman and a group of refugees from Africa, Sri Lanka and Kurdistan acted out a “Refugee School, in which pupils learn such skills as how to barter for a passport, how to hide money inside their own body and how to sleep upright in an enclosed space crammed with other asylum seekers. All of these, it transpires, come from real-life experiences.”
Looking At Henry Moore Sculptures Indoors
“We are used to seeing his pieces in the context of nature,” says the director of Gagosian’s London gallery. “I thought it would be interesting to show them in a clean well-lit space. There is a sense of their hugeness, which you get less of outside, and a tension, because you get the feeling they can almost break down the building.”
Will This Be New York’s Weirdest Building? Design Revealed For Columbia’s New Medical School
The 14-story building in Washington Heights, by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, will have an entirely transparent southern façade that will allow the public to see into some very oddly shaped open-plan floors.