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Will – Or Should – People Buy Two Seasons Worth Of Theatre Tix In Order To See ‘Hamilton’?

“Is this price gouging, or the arts equivalent of blackmail? The problem is a by-product of the escalation of ticket prices for theatre everywhere. The result is that it now costs many hundreds of dollars for a single subscription to a Broadway touring series, let alone a pair for those who don’t like to see theatre alone.”

If Chicago Falls Through, George Lucas Might Take His Museum To Treasure Island (For Real)

“But San Francisco probably won’t be the only suitor if Lucas gives up on Chicago. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti reportedly has come up with a possible location for the museum in the city’s arts-rich downtown, and just days ago he issued a statement saying, ‘We would welcome it in Los Angeles.'”

If You Know The Marseillaise (And You’re Not French), It’s Probably Because Of This ‘Casablanca’ Actor

Madeleine LeBeau and her husband “left Paris just hours ahead of the invading German army; Dalio’s image had been used in Nazi posters to identify Jewish-looking features. They made their way to Lisbon and, using what turned out to be forged Chilean visas, booked passage on a Portuguese cargo ship.”

Print Was Never Dead, But It’s Rising Again Anyway

“Publishing, like other industries before (and since), suffered a bad attack of technodazzle: It failed to distinguish between newness and value. It could read digital’s hysterical cheerleaders, but not predict how a market of human beings would respond to a product once the novelty had passed. It ignored human nature. Reading the meaning of words is not consuming a manufacture: it is experience.”

The Trend Of ‘Beer And Ballet’

“You can see the dancers, watch them work their butts off, and have a good time. It’s a bonding experience for the dancers, too, because they get together and have a beer and hang out.”

The Curator Who Doesn’t Stop Going To Work Just Because He’s Retired

Joe Rishel, the man who guided and transformed the Philadelphia Museum of Art during his decades there, is “now simply emeritus curator of European painting – a curator who comes in at 10 in the morning, not 9, and doesn’t wear a tie.”

Why The Director Of Last Year’s Oscar-Nominated ‘Mustang’ Says She Can’t Work In Her Country Anymore

“The situation for women in Turkey is, [Mustang director Deniz Gamze Ergüven] believes, now very grave, for which reason she is happy for her film to be regarded as a contribution to the increasingly muscular and conflicted debate surrounding their rights, their freedom.”

In A Snapchat World, Does Queer Poetry Still Matter?

“Queerness was present in poetry long before queer was queer or gay was gay.”

So, With A New Mayor In London, That Whole Garden Bridge Thing Is In Serious Trouble

“The new mayor’s intervention could derail a project that has attracted considerable criticism. The proposed bridge has secured vast sums of public money despite being initially promoted as entirely private-funded. It has recently been bedevilled by accusations that its designer was selected before the actual tender process began.”

Author: ArtsJournal2