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Movie Stars Who Came To Grief On Broadway

Alexis Soloski: “Though [Denzel] Washington’s first Broadway outing, as Brutus in Julius Caesar, generated tepid reviews, he has since become a heavy hitter, winning a Tony for Fences in 2010 and warm notices for A Raisin in the Sun in 2014. But some celebrities haven’t gained the same applause. Here are ten Hollywood luminaries and pop sensations who made lesser appearances on the Great White Way.”

‘The Davos Of Classical Music’: A Reporter Watches The Grandees At The Salzburg Festival

Michael Cooper sees Peter Gelb lunching with William Kentridge, Riccardo Muti at a reception for his new vinyl LP (yes, in 2017), the classical chief for Apple Music listening to Daniil Trifonov play, and Anna Netrebko on the front page of the newspapers (even the tabloids).

‘Bizarre’ Scam Selling Fake Jackson Pollocks Uncovered

The International Foundation for Art Research has identified four forgeries that were alleged to have come from the estate of an American collector who apparently never existed. “This scam is not aimed at the super-rich in major art centers. It targets modest collectors and so far is unfolding in the Mountain States and along the East Coast.”

M. T. Liggett, 86, Ornery Outsider Artist Who Made Roadside ‘Whirligigs’

“Mr. Liggett’s idiosyncratic scrap-metal gallery – conceived, shaped and welded in his shop nearby – stood on farmland in tiny Mullinville [Kansas], where a stiff prairie wind kept the whirligigs spinning, lending kinetic energy to his hodgepodge of installations. His clownish, abstract, cartoonish and grotesque works reflected his bent for provocation.”

Jazz Guitarist John Abercrombie Dead At 72

“Abercrombie was a confident but unassuming artist, whose abundant gifts did not include the knack for self-promotion. He emerged in the immediate wake of electric-guitar trailblazers like Sonny Sharrock and John McLaughlin but, at least temperamentally, he belonged more to the generation a decade or so his junior: cheerful omnivores like Pat Metheny, John Scofield and Bill Frisell.”

Finally, A Ballet Movie Whose Heroine Resembles Actual Ballerinas

“She has friends. She goes out. She has a sense of humor. What she’s not? ‘Totally depressed and anorexic,’ said the filmmaker Valérie Müller, who, with her husband, the choreographer Angelin Preljocaj, directed the film Polina.”

Bought And Not Paid For: $24 Million Richter And $15 Million Bacon Caught In Tangle Of Lawsuits

At the center of the mess is a 28-year-old Chinese businessman who allegedly bought the Bacon with borrowed money that was never repaid and refused to honor his guarantee for the Richter when it failed to sell at auction.

What Ever Happened To The Librettist Of ‘Nixon In China’ And ‘The Death Of Klinghoffer’?

In the wake of the fame (or notoriety) of those two founding works of the genre now called “CNN opera,” composer John Adams and director Peter Sellars went on to the heights of the opera world. Yet librettist Alice Goodman didn’t rise along with them; instead, she moved to Britain and became an Anglican priest. Thomas May catches up with her. (Notably, both Adams and Sellars, whose collaboration with Goodman ended in long-lasting acrimony, have very warm words for her here.)

A New ‘Anna Karenina’ Coming From Joffrey And Australian Ballet

“The partnership will team the Russian composer Ilya Demutsky, who has been commissioned to compose a new score, with the Russian choreographer Yuri Possokhov. A former Bolshoi dancer, Possokhov currently is choreographer in residence at the San Francisco Ballet.”