Disney is never going to let him go. (He wrote the score for the new theme park. Did you know theme parks had scores? Well, they do.)
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Glenn Lowry Will Continue As Director At MoMA Through 2025
Wait, what? Lowry was expected to retire after the new extension opened next year. And: “The extension comes as a surprise, since MoMA had long had a policy that ‘chief curators and other senior managers’ should retire at 65. In a 2014 interview with The New York Times, Mr. Lowry said he planned to respect the rule. ‘We have a policy of senior staff at this institution retiring at or around 65, and I don’t intend to break that policy,’ he said. ‘I’ll do my best between now and then.'”
As Rumors Swirl About Its Future, Life In Ireland’s National Symphony Goes On
The RTÉ’s first violinist: “In music you’re striving to be the best you can be, so you expect everyone around, the system, to be striving for that as well. That’s been letting us down. … Hopefully going forward there’ll be a bit more positivity.”
Identification, Please
Read any “quantifying” study of success in the arts with a skeptical eye.
Opera Often Needs Choreographers, Not Just For Opera Ballets But For The Principals And Chorus
That’s not without its challenges: “Directing singers is a very particular art: Try to make them move too precisely to the music, and some of them look like unmotivated marionettes, the more so if they have to share the stage with dancers.”
A Street Artist Who Bought A Banksy Plans To Whitewash It To Protest The Commodification Of Street Art
Ron English: “We’re tired of people stealing our stuff off the streets and reselling it, so I’m just going to buy everything I can get my hands on and whitewash it. … I’m going to paint over it and just include it in one of the walls in my house.”
FilmStruck Is (Almost) Dead; Long Live The New Criterion Collection Channel
OK, FilmStruck will soon be no more, and everyone who loves movies is pretty angry about that. But the Criterion Channel has decided – probably because of thousands of tweets, right? or the more than 50,000 people who signed a Change.org petition – to launch its own streaming service in the spring. “Like FilmStruck, Criterion Channel will have its own supplemental programming for movie buffs, featuring cinema luminaries and behind-the-scenes footage.”
A Playwright Who Keeps The Wolves At Bay With Instagram Glamour (And Hard Work)
Patricia Ione Lloyd is acutely aware both of image and of the limits of what image can do in a world that’s not as kind as it should be to queer women of color. “The stories that people tell themselves about black women or black queer women or poor women, those are myths, but people still hold onto them. I’m really trying to tell myself different stories about myself that can help me move through the world in a more powerful way.”
Sometimes, The Spirit Awards And The Oscars Match – But Likely Not This Year
Why? Big budget Oscar bait, basically.
A Library System In The US Also Tries To Close Small Libraries, Hide That Info From The Public, And Utterly Screw Up Public Records Requests On The Way
Basically: A Washington State library system decided to close some of its small libraries without telling the patrons because it didn’t want them to give feedback. An email from the library district manager telling a library she could not tell patrons the library was closingi included this: “Although we will make sure that they get to air their feelings, it would be a disservice to them to lead them to believe they can change the decision.” (Spoiler alert: They did.)