Author: ArtsJournal2

Leonard Slatkin Needs A Heart Operation, And Will Miss Several Detroit Symphony Concerts

The surgery comes as the conductor is about to transition from music director to “music director laureate” and will mean he misses the final three concerts of his music director tenure at the DSO. “Slatkin, who became DSO music director in 2008, said his cardiologists have assured him surgery should fix his heart issues. His recovery is expected to take about three months.”

The English National Opera Bans Food And Drink For Rock, Pop, And Musical Theatre, But Not For Opera And Classical Music Audiences

Apparently, some patrons like alcohol more than others? “English National Opera is banning musical theatre audiences from bringing food and drink into the London Coliseum because patrons have been ‘picnicking’ and ‘replacing water with gin and vodka.’ The ban, which also applies to rock and pop concert audiences, is not imposed on opera, dance, cinema and classical performance patrons, who are permitted to bring soft drinks and confectionery into the theatre.”

This Photographer’s Subject Says She Was Mistreated And Abused By Him For Years

The artist-muse relationship can be fraught, but it should be one based on mutual respect. “In a blog post published in Japanese in early April after ‘The Incomplete Araki’ opened at the Museum of Sex in Manhattan, the model, Kaori — who uses only her first name — said that over their working relationship, [photographer Nobuyoshi] Araki never signed her to a professional contract; ignored her requests for privacy during photo shoots; neglected to inform her when pictures of her were published or displayed; and often did not pay her. ‘He treated me like an object,’ she wrote.”

Writer Junot Diaz Accused Of Sexual Aggression And Misogynistic Behavior

Diaz, author of The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and This Is How You Lose Her, has withdrawn from the Sydney Writers’ Festival in the aftermath of the accusations. “Writer Zinzi Clemmons said [an] incident happened when she was a 26-year-old graduate student. She had invited Diaz to speak at a workshop, but Diaz ‘used it as an opportunity to corner and forcibly kiss me,’ Clemmons wrote on Twitter. Other female writers have since come forward, accusing Diaz of mistreatment and misogynistic verbal abuse.”

Philosophers Are Hitting The Streets To Find Out If Their Ideas Have Real-World Applications

Experimental philosophy – that is, x-phi – isn’t new, but it is more and more common. “A well-known example of this kind of work is Knobe’s own finding, called the ‘side-effect effect’ or just the ‘Knobe effect’. In a nutshell, this is the finding that people judge a side-effect to be intentionally caused much more often when that side-effect is negative than when it’s positive.”

A Sexual Assault Scandal Has Canceled This Year’s Nobel Prize For Literature

We’re not even talking about the assaults and abuses alleged to have been committed by various male authors – no, this is about the Nobel committee itself. “At the root of the institution’s unprecedented crisis are a raft of wide-ranging allegations against Jean-Claude Arnault, a photographer and leading cultural figure in Sweden, who is married to Katarina Frostenson, an academy member and author.”

David Henry Hwang Is (Still) Changing American Theatre

His revised M. Butterfly closed early after getting uneven reviews, and he has a new, very ambitious musical in the works. How has the 60-year-old playwright kept powering through? Maybe part of it is to get back at certain publications: “I think it’s kind of cool I can go for 21 years without a good review in The New York Times and I can still have a career.”