“The video above traces the strings’ journey from the butcher to the sound bridge. Fair warning: if you’re not a fan of watching the proverbial sausage get made, maybe give this one a pass – or at least skip the front end, which deals with a lot of raw intestines.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
If Theatres Are Publicly Funded, They Should Be Open To The Entire Public
Lyn Gardner: “Just as the window displays of Topshop may deliberately scream that their wares are not for me – a middle-aged woman – many venues unwittingly send out the signal that theatre is not for everyone. … If the public has paid for these buildings then they truly must be places available to the public – and artists – all day long, to do what they want, not what they are directed to do. They shouldn’t feel the need to be invited in, but they should be made to feel welcome whatever their purpose for being there.
Just How Many Damn Contemporary Art Museums Can Miami Take?
“More, more, more. Here, hardly a season goes by without the announcement of yet another new art museum or expansion – all fueled by the homegrown excitement and international attention surrounding the Art Basel Miami Beach fair each December, and all primarily focused on Basel-style contemporary art at the expense of virtually every other artistic milieu. Left behind is the math underlying this increasingly crowded landscape: Can Miami afford all of these art museums?”
Dictionary.com’s Word Of The Year For 2017 Is ‘Complicit’
Searches for the word spiked three times during the past year, two of them after incidents involving Ivanka Trump and the third after the angry speech in which Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) announced his retirement.
Audience Member Screams During Stravinsky, And Of Course It Goes Viral
The North State Symphony was performing Firebird in Redding, California, and at one point where there’s a big, sudden crescendo, one Stephanie Evans screamed. Alas for her, the moment was caught on video. Here’s how the conductor and orchestra handled it, and how Evans explains it.
A New Rural-Urban Dance Pipeline With A Terminus In Brooklyn
“Back when Lumberyard was known as the American Dance Institute and operated out of a strip mall in Rockville, Maryland, it pioneered its Incubator program to whip new pieces into shape, kind of like the “out-of-town” tryout model for theater. Several of the artists it supported ultimately brought their shows to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.” Now that the ADI has relocated to the Catskills as Lumberyard, “the partnership is official.”
Dancer Who Went Into Cardiac Arrest In Rehearsal Writes About Her Recovery
Ashley Newman: “On May 5, 2016, I was dancing with some of my best friends in rehearsal for The Chase Brock Experience, where I’m a founding company member. I was thrilled to be back doing a show after taking some time off for graduate school. My next memory is waking up in the hospital with a ventilator tube down my throat.”
Louvre In Talks To Show Leonardo’s ‘Salvator Mundi’
“Louvre President and Director Jean-Luc Martinez said that he hopes to secure a loan of the most expensive artwork ever sold for a blockbuster Leonardo show the museum is planning to mark the 30th anniversary of its ‘Grand Louvre’ renovation and expansion in late 2018.”
$450M Leonardo ‘Salvator Mundi’ May Have Had ‘Double-Bind Guarantee’ (What’s That?)
“To minimise its risk, the auction house found a third party willing to ‘guarantee’ the work. In other words, the painting was pre-sold to an undisclosed buyer for an undisclosed sum.” That third party was, according to one rumor, the owners of another work on sale at the same auction, Warhol’s Sixty Last Suppers – which was, in turn, guaranteed by Dmitry Rybolovlev, seller of Salvator Mundi. Hence the “double-bind.”
Jim Nabors, TV’s Gomer Pyle, Dead At 87
“Gomer was a recognizable kind of American hero: a good-hearted, gentle, unsophisticated sort (not unlike Forrest Gump of a later era) who encounters a harder, more cynical modern world – in this case embodied by Southern California – and helps redeem it. … To fans who knew him only as Gomer, his full-throated, almost operatic baritone was surprisingly striking, if strangely incongruous.”