“The company has had some artistic successes. But on the eve of its sixth season, a worrisome trend has become visible: The dancers are leaving, and being let go, at an exceedingly high rate.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Met Cancels Loans To Kremlin Museum
“The Metropolitan Museum of Art has canceled loans to the Moscow Kremlin Museum of works by French fashion designer Paul Poiret,” in response to the Russian government’s continuing embargo on all loans of art to US museums.
Indianapolis Airport To Replace Public Artwork With Video Screen
“Some arts patrons are criticizing a decision by Indianapolis International Airport officials to remove a prominent, three-story sculptural painting from its terminal and replace it with a video screen that shows ads and art.”
Are Intimate And One-On-One Theatre Decadent And Elitist?
It’s a form “that makes its experiences available to the few rather than the many. … [P]lays made for theatres have an almost infinitely extendable audience and have a potential for economies of scale that simply don’t work in the one-on-one context; it’s like readymade clothes as opposed to couture.”
Watching Hungry Young Artists Have Fun In New York
“They are young, talented and driven: artists who want to make their mark on the world. You see them in New York more than any other city in the country, and their New York is different from yours and mine. It’s hipper and faster paced, open to experience. If they want to see a folk-singing duo, and their iPhones tell them to cross two highway lanes on foot to get there, consider them crossed.”
‘Classical Music Is Turning Into Its Own Slutwalk’ (Well, Some People Think So)
David Patrick Stearns: “[Lang Lang’s] hair and clothes have made him look like a rock star for years … [His] Curtis classmate, Yuja Wang, made jaws drop with a microdress she wore onstage at the Hollywood Bowl last week with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.” And then there’s the frequently bare-chested barihunk Nathan Gunn …
C’mon, Was Yuja Wang’s Minidress Really So Scandalous?
Anne Midgette: “Let’s have a reality check for a minute. Yes, the dress is short, tight, and revealing. But in the real world – the world outside classical music’s still-prurient bubble – this is not unusual attire for a young rising starlet in the public eye.”
The Multifarious Magic Of Stage Kisses
“Whether bestowed on the lips, the cheek, the hand or any other part of the anatomy, the simple application of the lips to someone else’s body can illuminate all sorts of different, and often contradictory, feelings.” Ben Brantley unpacks three memorable moments of onstage osculation from this summer.
How The Theatre Slanders Benevolent, Hard-Working Editors Who Only Want What’s Best
“If you’re a newspaper editor on stage or screen, you are, as often as not, crusty, loud and easily exasperated. … In fact, almost as antique as newspapers these days is the fictive depiction of the hard-boiled editor, sometimes played as an all-bark, no-bite softie and other times as an incorrigible schemer.”
Sesame Street Answers The Question: Bert And Ernie Are Not Gay
The Sesame Workshop said in a statement: “Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street Muppets™ do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation.”