“The shakiness comes amid tumult in stock markets around the world. Sagging oil prices, weakness in global banking sectors, and slowing economies in China and emerging markets all contributed to the markets’ volatile start to 2016.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Best (And Possibly Only) Article About Justin Bieber That You’ll Ever Need To Read
“It’s unsettling to share a personal story, or ask a long-winded question, and be met with Justin Bieber’s silent, cool-eyed stare the entire time you’re talking. Justin Bieber makes eye contact like a person who has been told that eye contact is very, very important.”
Making An Hour-Long Musical Every Week On A TV Schedule
“‘The development process for stage musicals is years and years to get 12 or 15 songs onstage,’ he says. With ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,’ the team ‘sometimes have just a few days to write 2-3 new ones.’ That’s fine with him, as his philosophy is that ‘all creative work takes exactly as long as the amount of time you’re given. It’s amazing how much you can get done if you have to.'”
No Surprise: The New ‘Harry Potter’ Book Isn’t Out ‘Til July, But Is Already A Bestseller
It’s actually going to be the rehearsal script for a Harry Potter-universe play opening in London on July 31, but that hasn’t stopped the book from hitting bestseller status based on pre-orders in the days after the announcement happened.
James Levine And The Met Trying To Figure Out The Timing Of Retirement
“The question of Mr. Levine’s status has exposed tensions at the Met, dividing supporters who would like to see him stay on and members of the company and board who believe it is time for him to relinquish his role. They fear that the lack of a strong musical hand could leave the house adrift as opera struggles for relevance and the Met’s finances remain precarious.”
How Do You Design The Architecture For A Holocaust Movie?
“Long takes — some of which were three and four minutes long, and executed with a hand-held camera — meant that many of the sets would need to be complete rooms that could accommodate 360 degrees worth of shooting. This required Rajk to recreate a Nazi crematorium in an abandoned 1912 warehouse on the outskirts of Budapest.”
What Happens To A Literary Author Who Has A Successful First Book
“My ambition is personal. I don’t think I need to succeed so that the race can succeed. We’ve seen that. We’ve been succeeding since we were sneaking to learn how to read. We’ve been showing ourselves to be exceptional, and it doesn’t change anything. I understand that burden; I do not feel that burden. I feel the burden on the page when writing a story to do justice to the black people I am rendering, but I don’t necessarily believe that my successes or failure will have some greater impact on the way that people view black people.”
The English National Opera Is Still In Major Trouble
“It requires the wisdom of Solomon to work out how cutting one of the finest opera choruses, and possibly an orchestra too, can conceivably be the only honourable deed.”
The Philadelphia Museum Of Art Is Over Facebook’s Art Censorship Policies
“In a statement to the museum, Facebook explained the painting was taken down for ‘containing excessive amounts of skin or suggestive content.’ On Friday, the museum uploaded the colorful image – which features a woman suggestively licking an ice cream cone — to its Facebook page with the following message … “
The British Newspaper ‘The Independent’ Is Ceasing To Exist In Print Form
“At its peak sales hit around 428,000 copies a day. Twenty-five years later, the number of copies being sold on a weekday in newsagents is rather closer to 28,000.”