“I’ve been strapped in – physically strapped into pointe shoes, strapped into a leotard and tights, my hair’s been strapped up – for my whole entire life. … I was terrified to be unconstricted, and now I don’t know another way I’d rather be.” (audio)
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SoCal Museum, Shuttered Temporarily Last Year, Will Close For Good By August Without New Funding Model
“The Museum of Ventura County, which temporarily shut its doors last year to take inventory, revamp some things and figure out its future, has not been able to raise enough money to get back on its feet. Unless the institution can get money from a new source, officials said, it will close by the end of the month. To Elena Brokaw, who since last summer has been the museum’s interim executive director, the answer lies in creating a public-private partnership.”
National Theatre Gets Extra £1.17 Million To Get The Hell Out Of London
“The strategic touring funding [from Arts Council England] has been earmarked for work specifically outside London, something the National has been criticised for not doing enough of in the past.”
Artist Creates Yet More Paints That Only Anish Kapoor Is Forbidden To Use
“The ‘color war’ between British artists Stuart Semple and Anish Kapoor has entered a new, rainbow-hued round of conflict.”
Ilya Glazunov, 87, Populist, And Controversial, Russian Painter
“His lifelong infatuation with the czarist past, the art and architecture of the Orthodox Church and the mystical conception of Holy Russia found an eager audience among audiences disillusioned with Communism and distraught by Russia’s loss of standing in the world. Liberals, on the other hand, regarded Mr. Glazunov as an obscurantist, xenophobe and anti-Semite, in thrall to the darkest forces in Russian history. He preferred to think of himself as a patriot.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.12.17
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday Lives on in London
In her photographs, the multiple Tony-winner Audra McDonald looks nothing like Billie Holiday. But when she appears at Wyndham’s Theatre in Lanie Robertson’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill … read more
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Meet The 13-Year-Old Indonesian Prodigy Who’s Lighting Up The Jazz World
“Joey Alexander has the world at his feet: his first two albums have attracted Grammy nominations; his playing partners and musical mentors are some of the biggest names in jazz; and he has recently relocated from his native Bali in Indonesia to an apartment in downtown Manhattan.”
Believe Your Eyes? New Technology Is Making That Impossible
“At a time when distrust in journalistic institutions is swelling, technology that further muddies the ability to discern what’s real is rapidly advancing. Convincing Photoshop-esque techniques for video have arrived, and the result is simultaneously terrifying and remarkable.”
Musicians Are Being Warned Not To Talk About Influences On Their Work Our Of Fear Of Copyright Charges
A recent court judgment has worried many in the music industry that acknowledging music and musicians who influenced you could lead to charges of copyright…
Someone Is Flooding The FCC With Fake Comments Asking To End Net Neutrality
The fraudulent letter-writing campaign wasn’t a small-time operation. Thousands of form letters had been filed online, fraudulently signed under the names of real people, from Utah to Maine. “Whoever set this up got a large cloud service to a rate-limited public FCC API that doesn’t allow many submissions. They had to spin up a huge number of servers to make it work.”