Mike Scutari profiles the Michael Kelley Foundation for the Arts, endowed by the late sculptor, which works to fill in the gaps left by the mega-gifts-to-mega-institutions that has developed in Los Angeles.
Author: Matthew Westphal
George R.R. Martin Has A New ‘Game Of Thrones’ Book Coming (But It’s Not The One Fans Are Panting For)
“[The author] told fans today that the long-awaited sixth volume in his Game of Thrones fantasy series, The Winds of Winter, would not be published this year – but softened the blow by revealing that his ‘imaginary history’ of the Targaryen family in Westeros would be released on 20 November. Fire and Blood is set 300 years before the events of A Song of Ice and Fire and … will chronicle ‘the Targaryen civil war that nearly ended their dynasty forever’.”
They’ve Found Winslow Homer’s Camera, And It May Change The Way We Look At His Art
“Little did the Bowdoin College Museum of Art know that an unsolicited phone call it received in 2014 would lead to an exhibition this summer that may change the way Winslow Homer is viewed in art history.” Judith H. Dobrzynski reports.
San Francisco Conservatory Of Music To Build New 12-Story Facility (And Finally House Its Students)
With a lead gift of $46.4 million from biotech investor William Bowes, the school will construct a building – just across the street from Davies Symphony Hall – with two recital halls, rehearsal and recording studios, a restaurant, and apartments for 420 students.
Why Setting A Dance About Apartheid On American Dancers Makes Sense Right Now
“When Kevin ‘Iega’ Jeff saw Fana Tshabalala’s Indumba at the annual JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience in South Africa, he immediately knew he would ask Tshabalala to set the work on his company. … [Tshabalala] welcomed the chance to create an American-focused version for DRDT because he believes that ‘the impact of apartheid is the same as what America is experiencing internally … America is going through a social and political transformation, and Indumba could help in cleansing.”
Jean-Luc Godard Is Not Dead Yet, So Let’s Stop Obsessing Over His Early Films
“Brace yourselves for a wave of Godard nostalgia. It’s 50 years since Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and co. closed down the 1968 Cannes film festival in solidarity with student protests in Paris. … Those were the days, eh? When cinema was radical and part of the revolutionary struggle. Nobody embodied that more than Godard. He is cinema’s Picasso and its Che Guevara. He is the auteur wannabe auteurs want to be and remains the most dazzling, inventive, stylish, insouciantly brilliant yet confrontationally political film-maker the medium has ever seen. But by the time of Cannes 1968, Godard was also closing the curtain on his own auteur status.” And, argues Steve Rose, we should do the same thing.
It’s Impossible To Achieve Gender Equality In Theatre Without Quotas: Study
A report prepared by the women’s rights organization the Fawcett Society states that “the discrimination, harassment and structural barriers that women face are too prevalent to be overcome without a direct intervention of this kind.”
Donmar Warehouse’s ‘Measure For Measure’ Has Male And Female Leads Switching Roles
“Often seen as one of Shakespeare’s ‘problem plays’, the plot centres on Angelo, a puritan hardliner on a mission to clean up the city he is put in charge of, and the sister of a man he sentences to death, Isabella. After pleading for her brother, Angelo offers to save him in return for sex. … The role swap will probably take place about halfway through, with some scenes being replayed, including the key moment when Angelo makes the offer to Isabella.”
Encounters With Shakespeare: 15 ‘New Yorker’ Writers On When The Bard Blew Them Away
“On the occasion of the four-hundredth anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, New Yorker writers” – Elif Batuman, Richard Brody, Larissa MacFarquhar, Vinson Cunningham, Rebecca Mead, Philip Gourevitch, Louis Menand, and others – “share their experiences of reading, watching, studying, performing, memorizing, and falling in love with the work of the Bard.”
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