“The plush space is meant to host auditions for Broadway touring productions, which the union has been working to get moved from New York to its regional centers in Chicago and Los Angeles.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
One Last Monet Found In Suitcase Art Hoarder Left At Hospital
“The task force handling the art trove say the latest find is a light-blue landscape painted on paper, which may have been produced in 1864. It appears to have similarities to Monet’s piece View at Sainte-Adresse, dated 1867.”
Robert Spano Pleads For Musicians In Letter To Atlanta Symphony
“Mr. Spano took a step that music directors rarely take, and weighed in on the negotiations. He and Donald Runnicles, the orchestra’s principal guest conductor, wrote a letter in which they said, ‘We ask the board and management to acknowledge the sacrifice the musicians have already made, and to examine other ways and areas to establish sustainability.'”
Two Mid-Career Chicago Actors Die In Separate Accidents, Shocking Theatre Community
“‘Oh, our poor community,’ said BJ Jones, the artistic director of the Northlight Theatre, too overcome to say much more. ‘This is devastating.'”
The Louvre’s Re-Revamp (For The 21st Century)
“Even rewriting the labels is a Herculean task; the institution has around 38,000 of them. The project is ‘likely to take decades,’ he says.”
How To Become America’s Favorite Dancer
“Produced by TV geniuses who are also perhaps sadists, the rigorous celebration of dance might be the most demanding talent competition out there, requiring its contestants to leap, pirouette, cha-cha-cha, and toss their dance partners in the air with unrelenting frequency over the course of its summer run each year.”
Don’t Expect The (Dragged-Out) Amazon/Publisher Feud To Go Away Anytime Soon
“Amazon is willing to upset some customers and authors as it pursues a long-term strategy for books.”
So You’re Having An Artistic Crisis …
“Now is not the time to compare yourself to others. Personally, I have found that spending too much time reading about the fantastic lives and careers of my friends and colleagues, as presented on Facebook, makes me feel boring and inadequate. If it makes you feel similar, take a break from it.”
Public Artists Fought The Law, And The Law (Almost Always) Won
“Across the country, a growing body of legal decisions and local rulings are coming out against the artist, particularly in the case of public art. And when the artist loses, the works—some of them long-standing, beautiful or neighborhood favorites—are often removed immediately or destroyed.”
When A Famous Actor Wants To Adapt Your Book As A Passion Project
“If it did turn out to be rubbish, I wouldn’t have had anything to do with it. But if it were great I could take some of the credit.”