The success of Chronicle of a Death Foretold “prompted a lawsuit by Miguel Reyes Palencia, who claimed that Márquez had based the novel’s main character, Bayardo San Román, on his life. This week those accusations were finally dismissed [by] a supreme court in the Colombian city of Barranquilla.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Motherf***er With The Hat Playwright Protests Casting Of White Actors In Latino Lead Roles
“In a rare attack by a playwright on a professional production of his own work, Stephen Adly Guirgis took to Facebook on Wednesday to assail the casting of two white actors as the Puerto Rican lead characters in the Hartford regional production of his play.”
Knoedler & Company, One Of America’s Oldest Art Galleries, Closes
“After 165 years, Knoedler & Company, one of the oldest and most prestigious art galleries in the country, is permanently closing its doors. Opened at a time when there were no major museums in New York, Knoedler helped shape the tastes as well as decorate the homes of America’s new class of wealthy barons.”
Why Creative Types May Be More Likely To Cheat
“The same enterprising mind that allows creative people to consider new possibilities, generate original ideas, and resolve conflicts innovatively may be what also helps them justify their own dishonest behavior, said the authors of [a] new study.”
Martha Graham Dance Company Launches Online Video Contest
“The ‘On the Couch: An Inner Monologue Competition’ is part of the Company’s ‘Inner Landscape’ theme for the season. It asks contestants to download a three-minute video of a dancer … [and] add voice-over or text to the video that reveals the character’s thoughts beginning with the sentence, ‘Doctor, it’s happening again’.”
Why Are The Titles Of Hollywood Products So Thumpingly Obvious?
We can blame the Internet, it seems – and, for that matter, mass communications and the entire Information Age.
Riccardo Chailly Cancels All Performances For Next Two Months
Due to cardiac issues, the Italian conductor has withdrawn from high-profile concert and opera engagements in Valencia, Munich, Leipzig (where he is essentially the city’s music director), and Boston, where he is thought to be a leading candidate for Boston Symphony music director.
In Praise Of Ken Russell, Cinema’s Great Imaginer Of Music
“Yes, he could be puerile. He portrayed Liszt as a sex-crazed rock star pursued by a giant penis. … The neurotic, erotic carryings on of his Mahler and Tchaikovsky don’t qualify as proper musicology. But Russell always started with the music — how it made him feel, how it took over his life. Music was, for him, the key to our inner lives.”
Leonardo Da Vinci, Animal Rights Activist
Giorgio Vasari’s biography of Leonardo (1550) recounts that he would buy caged birds from the market and let them go. “Whether or not Leonardo really set birds free, he definitely did question the superiority of humans to the rest of the animal kingdom. It is a repeated theme in his notebooks.”
Should We Really Be Telling Theatre Students That They’ll Be Poor?
“In the UK, we tell young people going into theatre that they will not – cannot – make money. It’s a mantra that makes them begin to feel that they should not; poverty and authenticity become synonymous. … Maybe struggling against adversity strengthens determination. But what does it do to aspiration?”