The 38-year-old dancer, who has been with San Francisco Ballet for 18 years and founded and directs the contemporary company SFDanceworks, succeeds Patricia Barker, now at the Royal New Zealand Ballet.
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Egyptian Pop Singers Arrested For ‘Inciting Debauchery’ In Their Music Videos
“Leila Amer will detained for four days, according to reports, while authorities investigate her video for the song ‘Boss Oumek’ (‘Look At Your Mother’), which includes ‘suggestive’ dancing and gestures.” (The complaining attorney called it a “moral disaster” and “an attack on society and the destruction of the state.”) “Ms Amer’s case occurs less than a month after a fellow singer [called Shyma] was sentenced to two years in prison over a raunchy video.”
Gavin Stamp, Architectural Preservationist Who Pioneered ‘Young Fogeyism,’ Dead At 69
In campaigns as a public figure and in print under the pen name Piloti, he led battles to save historic buildings from the wrecking ball and against postwar architecture and urban planning. He was perhaps best known for championing the preservation of the red telephone booth.
Three Win $100,000 Prize For The People Who Write Musical Theater’s Words
The Kleban Prize, established by the lyricist of A Chorus Line, goes to promising lyricists and librettists. The 2018 award winners are Alan Schmuckler (lyrics for Diary of Wimpy Kid: The Musical), Amanda Yesnowitz (lyrics for Somewhere in Time), and Christian Duhamel (book for My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend).
Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.09.18
What You Need to Know
Community engagement and its potential for enhancing the viability of arts organizations is too often poorly understood or just plain misunderstood. It is conflated with other tasks and minimized by people who cannot envision its … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2018-01-09
Should museums have free admission?
A common refrain is that the museum can “afford” to have free admission for all, either through better management of costs, or through increased donations from the very rich. I don’t doubt this. But is it a good idea? … read more
AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2018-01-09
Maurice Peress, 1930-2018
Maurice Peress, a conductor who served as a link between jazz and classical music, died over the weekend at his home in New York. He was 87. Peress collaborated with Duke Ellington … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2018-01-09
Oprah, Donald Trump, and The Man Who Saw Them Coming
There has been, of course, an enormous amount of talk about Oprah Winfrey since her truly impressive speech at the Golden Globes Sunday night, and some have proposed her as the ideal candidate for … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2018-01-09
Mindfulness – A Corporate Con?
When the nature of work changes, companies reward new ways of feeling about it. The rise of white-collar work in the 1950s birthed the risk-averse organization man, whose highest values were loyalty and orderly conduct. The deregulation of the 1980s made virtues of aggression and ruthless competition. The new economy is characterized by instability and disruption; its ideal worker is calm in the midst of it all, productive and focused. The mindfulness training his company offers isn’t so much a perk as it is the means of turning him into a new type of person.
Study: Skill At Playing A Musical Instrument Is A Romantic Turn-on
So was musical skill sexy? The results suggest the answer is, in general, yes. “Mate value ratings were generally increased by music performance quality by raters of both sexes,” reports the research team led by psychologist Guy Madison of Umea University.
Study: The Value Of Work By Artists Who Are Depressed Goes Down
By looking at sale and auction price between 1972 to 2014, the authors of the study found that paintings created in the year following the death of a friend or relative saw a decrease in value of about 35% compared to the rest of the artist’s catalog.
At 86, Looking Back At A Lifelong Career As A Struggling Artist
Over the years there were some exhibitions and acquisitions, notably a 140-work retrospective in 1997 of both his commercial and fine art in Basel, Switzerland, where Mr. Bertschmann was born and raised. But these accomplishments never amounted to a self-sustaining fine art career. As he reached his 80s, humility and obscurity started getting old, and costly. Now the Bertschmanns find themselves in a tenuous financial position.
What Foucault Knew: Sharing In Public Makes Us Self-Monitor And Conform
According to Foucault, the dynamics of the Panopticon bore an uncanny resemblance to how people self-monitor in society at large. In the presence of ever-watchful witnesses, he said, physical coercion is no longer necessary. People police themselves. They do not know what the observers are registering at any given moment, what they are looking for, exactly, or what the punishments are for disobedience. But the imagination keeps them pliant. In these circumstances, Foucault claimed, the architecture of surveillances become perniciously subtle and seamless, so ‘light’ as to be scarcely noticeable.