“Though Mr. Storey struggled for recognition at first, he went on to win Britain’s premier fiction award, the Man Booker Prize, in 1976 for his novel Saville, in which a miner’s son breaks away from his background. Two of his novels were shortlisted for the award. Three of his works were named best play by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle, all within four years in the 1970s. He also earned two Tony nominations.”
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Stephen Hawking Was Looking For A New Voice So He Auditioned A-List Theatrical Talent
Candidates included Lin-Manuel Miranda and Liam Neeson. See who he auditioned and who he chose.
The Public Memorial For Carrie Fisher And Debbie Reynolds Became A Musical Revue And Dancefest, And Here’s How
“Emotion flowed openly once the memorial got underway, particularly when the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles rose from seats in the audience and began singing Cyndi Lauper’s ‘True Colors’ en masse. Troupes of dancers from the Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio — she founded the North Hollywood venue in 1979 — performed with umbrellas and yellow raincoats to honor the star.”
Donald Judd, Persistent Disbeliever And Committed Skeptic
With Judd, to put it mildly, “He had not the slightest appetite for polite back patting. … Doubt always came first.”
Robin O’Hara, Producer Of Independent Video And Film, Has Died At 62
O’Hara, who produced (with her partner Scott Macaulay) the indie film “What Happened Was … ,” got her start as a producer at the experimental space the Kitchen, where she had been an intern, helping distribute videos by Nam June Paik, Robert Wilson and Bill Viola to galleries and museums around the world.
Patti Smith Buys Arthur Rimbaud’s House
The dwelling, which is located near the French border with Belgium in a small town called Roche, is a reassembled version of Rimbaud’s childhood home. It was here that the late 19th-century French poet wrote his most famous piece, A Season in Hell, when he was merely 19 years old.
Performance Artists In Exile In Britain Fear They’ll Be Forced To Return To Poland
Władysław Kaźmierczak and Ewa Rybska face charges, which they insist are politically motivated, of financial malfeasance from the 2000s, when Kaźmierczak was director of the Baltic Gallery for Contemporary Art in Słupsk. The pair’s work has been critical of the right-wing-nationalist Law and Justice Party, which is currently in power in Poland.
Chuck Barris, Creator Of ‘The Dating Game’, Mastermind And Host Of ‘The Gong Show’, And (He Says) CIA Assassin, Dead At 87
As he once told an interviewer, “I was never on drugs, but everybody thought I was. When they saw The Gong Show, and I would come out, they all thought I was whacked out of my mind. But I never did drugs. I had a public company.”
Anselm Kiefer And Mario Vargas Llosa Awarded J. Paul Getty Medals
“Since it was established in 2013, the J. Paul Getty Trust has only recognized six individuals for their extraordinary contributions to the arts. Past recipients of the award include Harold Williams, Nancy Englander, Jacob Rothschild, Frank Gehry, Yo-Yo Ma, and Ellsworth Kelly.”
The Magician Who’s A Conceptual Artist
“[Derek] DelGaudio devises performances that combine sleight-of-hand with more theoretical preoccupations drawn from performance art, conceptual art and what’s known as relational aesthetics … [He] likes to nod to well-known conventions (pick a card, any card), only to slyly deconstruct them, in a manner that either heightens or thwarts their payoffs. His animating goal is not for observers to ask, ‘How did he do that?’ but, ‘Why?'”