“A recovering stock market did a lot of the heavy lifting, but so did adroit sleights of hand. During the recession, several heavyweight museums quietly added seats to their boards as a way to shore up their sagging bottom lines.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Mark Strand, Poet Laureate Who Wrote His Epitaph Decades Ago, Dies At 80
“To critics who complained that his poems, with their emphasis on death, despair and dissolution, were too dark, he replied, ‘I find them evenly lit.'”
Vinyl’s Comeback Keeps On Coming
“The entire plant produces 28 records a minute, but Sheldon wishes he could press more. He’s increased his staff and now presses records 24 hours a day, 6 days a week to keep up with demand.”
Actually, Even Equity Tours Might Not Be That Great For The Performers
The minimum wage on Broadway is “more than triple the minimum on some of today’s currently running Equity tours. These tours aren’t Broadway and marketing them as such is frankly disingenuous.”
Guy Who Steals The Show As An Angel At English National Opera Is An American Street Dancer
“Banks, whose real name is James Davis, did not even have a biography in the programme for English National Opera’s production of The Gospel According to the Other Mary – he became a Twitter enigma with audience members tweeting the question, who is he?”
In Los Angeles, Look To Koreatown’s Architecture To See The Future
“Threaded through a neighborhood that in demographic terms is mostly Latino, well served by subway and bus lines, K-town is a thriving, charismatic advertisement for a more intensely urban Los Angeles.”
Annie Lee Painted ‘What Everyone Knew’ But Didn’t See As Art
“‘She was our Picasso, our Salvador Dali,’ El said. ‘She was that.'”
If You’re Taking A Child To The Theatre, Plan For Her To Be Seen – And Heard
“Engagement can take many forms, and treating the theatre as if it’s a church where everyone must be reverent is not my idea of fun. Particularly not at most Christmas shows.”
The Literary Archives Of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Are Heading To The University Of Texas
Irony: “Gabriel García Márquez, who died in April at 87, was a strong critic of American imperialism who was banned from entry to the United States for decades, even after ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ vaulted him to international celebrity and, in 1982, the Nobel Prize in Literature.”
Ballet Has A Lot Of Rules – Including Precisely How, And To Whom, To Present Flowers Onstage
“At the Royal Opera House, however, there are flowers delivered onstage at almost every ballet performance, most provided by loyal fans who can spend hundreds of dollars each month to keep their favorite ballerinas supplied with floral tributes.”