A new tourist attraction in Bandung, Indonesia, called Rabbit Town features installations that bear extraordinary resemblances to Chris Burden’s Urban Light (at the entrance to LACMA), Yayoi Kusama’s Obliteration Room (where visitors put polka dots on the walls), and the Museum of Ice Cream.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Leading Russian Stage Director, Under House Arrest At Home, Is The Talk Of Berlin
“Kirill S. Serebrennikov … [is] accused of embezzling 133 million rubles, or about $2.3 million, in government funds allocated to a festival he ran. For many in Russia and abroad, however, the case against Mr. Serebrennikov seems like a piece of politically motivated theater: punishment for a provocative artist who has been an outspoken critic of President Vladimir V. Putin. … The Gogol Center, the avant-garde theater he has led since 2012, [is now making a high-profile visit to the German capital].”
Stéphane Audran, Star Of French Cinema’s Golden Age, Dead At 85
“The coolly elegant and craftily enigmatic French actress … drew acclaim for performances in the Oscar-winning films Babette’s Feast and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie as well as many dramas by her husband, director Claude Chabrol.”
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Why Is The New York Times’ History Of Gay Theater All Plays By White Men?
Alisa Solomon: “How deeply and daily disappointing that the paper of record erases the same people and perspectives that are ever more disdained by the current regime. That for me, at least, goes some way toward explaining the outsized irritation – my own and that of many colleagues – that greeted Jesse Green’s recent 5,000-word essay ‘A Brief History of Gay Theater,’ which ran in [the Men’s Style issue of] T: The New York Times Style Magazine on Sunday, March 4.”
Two Unpublished Manuscripts By Charlotte Brontë Headed For Print
“Written in the Jane Eyre author’s own hand, the 77-line poem and a 74-line story were found in the leaves of a book belonging to her mother and sold to [The Brontë Society] in 2015.”
What Our Accents Signify, And Why People Try To Change Them
“After all, you can wear professional-looking clothes and behave in a way appropriate to your job, but as soon as you open your mouth, your accent betrays your upbringing. As the linguist Chi Luu explained …, research shows that we are quickly judged based on how we speak.” (Especially in Britain.)
Lawrence K. Grossman, Chief Who Transformed PBS And Defended NBC News, Dead At 86
“Mr. Grossman moved to Washington in 1976 to take charge of PBS, at the time little more than a loosely aligned group of hundreds of locally controlled educational TV stations around the country. During his eight-year tenure, he maintained financial stability while giving PBS more of a national presence, largely through cultural programming and news. … He introduced such programs as Live From Lincoln Center and concerts from the White House and the Kennedy Center and approved production of a 13-part series on the history of the Vietnam War. He led efforts that expanded The MacNeil/Lehrer Report to a full hour in 1983, making it the first hour-long nightly newscast on any network.”
What’s The Most Cultured City In The US? If You Go By Engagement, It’s Not NY, LA Or DC
“We looked at the 30 most visited museums in the US in our 2016 survey and found that, while places such as Chicago might have more museumgoers, residents of cities such as Minneapolis, Grand Rapids and Bentonville are more engaged with their local institutions.”
CDs And Vinyl Are Once Again Outselling Digital Downloads
“The RIAA released its 2017 year-end revenue report on Thursday, showing that revenue from digital downloads plummeted 25 percent to $1.3 billion over the previous year. Revenue from physical products, by contrast, fell 4 percent to $1.5 billion. Overall, the music industry grew for the second straight year. And with $8.7 billion in total revenue, it’s the healthiest it has been since 2008.”