Turns out Stanley Kubrick and colleagues worked on and rehearsed the scene for weeks, and it was highly (if not always clearly) thought out. Then Kubrick died, and the rest of the team had to figure out how to avoid an NC-17 rating without him. Journalist Bilge Ebiri talks to Kubrick’s assistant director and personal assistant, the choreographer (yes, there was one), composer, dancers, and actors involved (though not Tom Cruise or Nicole Kidman). – New York Magazine
Author: Matthew Westphal
Court Gives Trump-Connected Oligarch Who Used To Own ‘Salvator Mundi’ Go-Ahead To Sue Sotheby’s
“A federal judge in New York rejected Sotheby’s bid to dismiss a $380 million lawsuit where Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev accused the auction house of helping his longtime art dealer’s scheme to overcharge him on dozens of masterworks.” – Reuters
Yannick And Jaap Sitting Around Talking
Jaap van Zweden: “If you see Dallas, it’s a real sports town. If you see Hong Kong, it’s a real business town. And I think we are both very fortunate because New York is a real arts town. That is a big plus for us.”
Yannick Nézet-Séguin: “At the same time, in New York we should always — and I know this is true for the Met — we should always be listening and watching what’s going on elsewhere in the country, so we can represent it better.” – The New York Times
The Poverty-Level-Paid, Overworked Adjunct Professors Of Florida Are Fighting Back
“In just the past few years, [SEIU] has organized close to 10,000 Florida adjuncts, in what is one of the most remarkable and little-noticed large scale labor campaigns in the country.” – Splinter
Novelist Michael Chabon Will Be Showrunner Of Next ‘Star Trek’ Series
The Pulitzer-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Moonglow, Wonder Boys and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union will be in charge of Star Trek: Picard, the upcoming CBS All Access series that will revisit Patrick Stewart’s character from The Next Generation. – Deadline
Baltimore Symphony Board Sets Date For End Of Lockout, Pays Health Insurance For Locked-Out Musicians
Contributions from board members and others will cover the cost of the health insurance for July and August, and management will end the lockout on Sept. 9 if no contract agreement has been reached by then. – The Baltimore Sun
Who Bought That Caravaggio That Was Found In An Attic? This Guy
“The American billionaire hedge fund manager and art collector J. Tomilson Hill is the mysterious buyer of an early 17th-century canvas billed as a rediscovered masterpiece by Caravaggio, according to a person with knowledge of the sale.” – The New York Times
Principal Of ‘Fame’ High School Is Out After Pushing Too Hard For Academics
After six years in charge of LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts in Manhattan, Lisa Mars has resigned. “For years, Mars’ leadership … has been criticized for what students, faculty, parents, and alumni have described as a shifted focus to academics. Last month, students staged an hours-long sit-in at the school to protest Mars.” – Chalkbeat
Met Museum Can Keep Picasso’s ‘The Actor’, Rules U.S. Court Of Appeals
“First brought against the Met in 2016, the suit alleged that Picasso’s The Actor (1904-05) was subject to restitution laws and should therefore be returned to the family of its original owners, Paul and Alice Leffmann, both of whom fled Germany during the Nazi party’s rise to power in the mid-1930s. The Leffmanns’ great-grandniece, Laurel Zuckerman, had alleged that her relatives were made to sell the work ‘under duress.'” – ARTnews
How I Found A Studio For Merce Cunningham In Postwar Paris
Marianne Preger-Simon recounts how she saw the great choreographer perform in the French capital in 1949, and how she contrived to meet him — ultimately to become his first student and then a charter member of his dance company. – Literary Hub