“This is the second New York museum to announce changes to staff in the face of an expensive expansion.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
An Almost Storybook Tale Of The (Bright) Star Of ‘Bright Star’
“Cusack has hustled to earn a living — she couldn’t afford to finish her degree at the University of North Texas — whether as a singing waitress near a Fort Worth freeway; on a cruise ship crooning Burt Bacharach songs; or as a jazz chanteuse in an underground wine bar for $40 a night. Sitting in her cramped dressing room at the Cort Theater the other day, Ms. Cusack didn’t seem bitter.”
The Real Home Of Gatsby, Er, We Mean F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Fitzgerald left St. Paul many times, but St. Paul never left him.”
Walt Whitman, Men’s Health Columnist (Really)
“In long and sometimes rambling prose, the poet extols the virtues of fresh air, of good footwear, of naked sunbathing and even of facial hair.”
Ballet Companies Are Wrecking Dancers’ Bodies, Prima Ballerina Says
And she’s ready for that to stop: “In the ballet world, in too many cases, the status of dancers is similar to that of actors in medieval theatre – subservient.”
There’s A New Update Of Pride And Prejudice, Including Bingley As A Former Reality-Show Contestant
“Certain critics have balked at Sittenfeld’s irreverently contemporary retelling of what many consider Austen’s masterpiece. But I found Eligible to be a lot of fun—a novel of manners recast as a novel of terrible manners.”
The Most Underappreciated Job In Orchestral Music Is Being Outsourced To iPads
“The only time anyone takes notice of what you are doing is when something goes terribly wrong. The more perfect one is at turning pages or being an air traffic controller, the less we even notice they are there.”
The Choreographer, In Her 8th Decade, Still Has Questions
“Part of Ms. Hay’s mandate as a choreographer is to change learned behavior in dancers — to challenge them to relinquish their habits by posing questions that shift the tone and texture of a performance.”
Is The Lucas Museum, In The End, Going To Elude Chicago?
“Mr. Emanuel is pitching a new plan that would include demolishing a much derided but spacious older section of the city’s lakefront convention center to make room for the museum and a new park. New convention space would be added under the plan as well.”
The Author Of ‘Headscarves And Hymens’ Explains How To Fight Oppression
“We are post-nothing. If anything, the past few in this country have taught us that we’re not post-racism, we’re not post-sexism, we are post-nothing.”