This is what happens when you let dirt – and overpainting – obscure the original. “The portrait showing George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, thought to have been James VI and I’s lover, had been hanging in a National Trust for Scotland property and was believed to be a copy of the lost original, which had been missing for almost 400 years.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
To Be Part Of Broadway’s ‘Clockwork Orange,’ It Helps To Be Ultrafit
The director says, “Alex makes a point in the book of saying as a young man, you should be the best version of yourself that you can be. And certainly Jonno’s translation of that is: ‘Don’t let your body go to waste when it’s in its prime.’”
The Architect Of Louvre Abu Dhabi Says The Treatment Of Workers Is ‘An Old Question’ That’s Not Important
Jean Nouvel, speaking of the workers who built his museum – and despite a 2015 report that says the workers were badly abused – said, “They have the same conditions, even better conditions, than those I see in other countries. … We checked and it was fine. We saw no problem.”
The City Of Anaheim Is (Probably) Not Getting What It Needs From Disney
Anaheim is fed up, too. For instance: “The Burbank company masterfully works the political system, sometimes deploying aggressive strategies that belie its carefully cultivated image. Support for various deals benefiting Disney has come from Anaheim City Council members who have received generous campaign contributions through a byzantine network of political action committees funded by the company.”
An Artist Collective Booted After The Ghost Ship Tragedy Finds A Warehouse – With Permits, Even
Truly an unlikely story: “Unlike many collectives that disbanded post-eviction, members of the Trapp managed to pull off a miracle in Oakland’s increasingly tight real estate market: They convinced a warehouse owner to let them build out a new live/work space and do it legally.”
Actors Have Been Occupying This Iconic Berlin Theatre All Weekend
On Friday afternoon, at Berlin’s Volksbühne theatre, “a group of left-wing activists moved into the building and proclaimed they were occupying the institution with the aim of turning it into a collectively run theater.” The actors left a newly built stage at the disused Templehof theatre for their ostensible director, Chris Dercon.
Shonda Rhimes, Who Made Grey’s Anatomy And Many Other Hit Shows, Says Hollywood Needs To Get More LGBT Representation
At the Los Angeles LGBT Center awards night, Rhimes spoke up. “Everyone has the right the see themselves on the screen, and I think it’s really dangerous when that doesn’t happen,” she said. “People deserve realistic portrayals.”
The Life Of A Comic-Book Letterer [PODCAST]
The letterer’s art is to make it look like no art at all. “Though their work is essential to the look and feel of a book, it also tends to disappear into the page itself.”
Myrna Lamb, Feminist Playwright Lambasted By Male Critics, Has Died At 87
Her first musical, “Mod Donna,” had its opening at the Public in 1970. One Lamb supporter: “I was at opening night with my then-boyfriend, … a deceptively mild-mannered man who rose out of his chair at the curtain and began to shout that feminism was a sham and that he would tell the awful truth about what wretched liars, manipulators, fakes and so on we in the movement were. I had never seen him in such a rage. Many men in the audience around us were nodding approval at his outburst.”
The Theatre Of Cruelty At The Heart Of Darren Arnofsky’s ‘Mother!’
Just ask Artaud: Language is insufficient to communicate the pain of existence (so add some intensely horrible sound to your unsubtle movie, and communicate it that way).