“At the Curtis Institute of Music, where faculty members tend to stay for decades, a seismic shift is coming to the school’s storied opera and vocal studies department. Eric Owens and Danielle Orlando will assume co-equal roles as head of opera starting in the 2019-20 season, the school announced last week.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
The Curse Continues? Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote Film Loses U.S. Distribution As Amazon Pulls Out
Because there’s just no way that this endlessly jinxed movie should get some uncompromised good news: Amazon Studios, which helped revive the prospects of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote in 2015 when it became a co-producer of the film, quietly decided several weeks ago not to distribute the title, apparently because of a last-hour rights dispute.
Some Good News For Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote Film: French Court Rejects Injunction To Stop Cannes Screening
“In the long-running quest of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the movie has scored a victory. Directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce, the film has gotten the go-ahead to close the Cannes Film Festival next week after a judge in France rejected a lawsuit by producer Paulo Branco that would have blocked it.”
Per Kirkeby, Latter-Day Abstract Expressionist Painter, Dead At 79
“Kirkeby rose to notoriety during the early 1980s alongside fellow European Neo-Expressionist artists Markus Lüpertz, A. R. Penck, Jörg Immendorff, and Georg Baselitz, all of whom brought a renewed emphasis on formalism and painterly technique to an art world that had, by then, nearly given up on their medium.
Details Of Saudi Arabia’s $20 Billion Answer To Petra Revealed
“Al-Ula [province] is home to Al-Hijr, a Unesco World Heritage Site since 2008, currently closed to tourists and visited only by a privileged few. Located in north-west Saudi Arabia, it consists of spectacular canyons and rock-carved tombs around Mada’in Salih, once known as Hegra. The oasis was a trading outpost of the Nabataean kingdom, 550km south of its capital, Petra, in modern-day Jordan. It includes remains of the Lihyanite culture and the Roman occupation. … The ten-year deal [to develop the area for international tourism] gives France an exclusive role in a project potentially worth tens of billions of euros in an area almost the size of Belgium.”
Harold Pinter’s Complete One-Act Plays To Be Staged In West End
“The ambitious season will mark the 10th anniversary of Pinter’s death by staging 20 plays over 24 weeks in the London theatre that has borne his name since 2011. The man behind the season is stage director Jamie Lloyd, who said he hoped theatregoers would feel it was a bit like collecting vinyl.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.09.18
American Success Story: Rockefeller’s & George Washington’s Conquest of Christie’s
For the second night in a row, bidding on the Rockefeller Collection at Christie’s handily outstripped the low presale estimate. In a livelier session … read more
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Building Community, Skin Against Skin
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A Super-Simple, Non-Quantum Theory Of Eternal Consciousness
John Horgan considers the phenomenon of a philosopher dozing off at a conference (and himself dozing off while watching TV in bed) and arrives at the idea that consciousness may well be eternal – well, in effect, if not by strictest definition.
Edwin G. Burrows, 74, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Of New York City
Burrows and co-author Mike Wallace, both professors at the City University of New York, won a Pulitzer for the 1,148-page Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898.
The Invention Of Young-Adult Fiction And The New Teenage Market It Served
“Targeted at readers 12 to 18 years old, [the genre] sprang into being near the end of the turbulent decade of the 1960s – in 1967, to be specific, a year that saw the publication of two seminal novels for young readers: S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders and Robert Lipsyte’s The Contender. … Before these two novels, literature for 12- to 18-year-olds was about as realistic as a Norman Rockwell painting.”