“She was able to pursue her desire to build because she was independently wealthy, unmarried and locally influential, and she acquired the knowledge to do it because her older male relatives honored and encouraged her intelligence.”
Tag: 01.13.12
Louisville Orchestra CEO Steps Down After Conflict-Filled Tenure
“After leading the Louisville Orchestra through bankruptcy, a bruising labor battle” – that attempts to hire non-union replacements via Craigslist – “and a return to the stage after a canceled season, chief executive officer Robert Birman is resigning.”
We Have Lenin And Kim Jong Il, But Who’s The Great-Granddaddy Of All Embalmed Despots?
None other than Alexander the Great. His preserved body, hijacked by one of his generals, was displayed in a secular shrine just as Lenin’s and Kim’s corpses are now, and for the same purposes.
US State Department Spreads American Dance From Kyrgyzstan To Mozambique
DanceMotion USA, a cultural diplomacy initiative, is sending the likes of the Trey McIntire Project, Rennia Harris Puremovement and the Seán Curran Company to far-flung corners of the globe.
Toronto City Council Votes Not To Cut Arts Funding
“After four months of fear and anxiety, on Thursday Toronto’s arts community got some news from City Hall that calls for a victory celebration. The executive committee of city council voted in favour of sustaining arts funding levels at the same level that prevailed in 2011.”
Bolshoi’s Director General Says He Didn’t Fire Nikolai Tsiskaridze
Anatoly Iksanov: “No one is going to fire Nikolai Tsiskaridze, who was, and is, to remain Bolshoi Theatre’s soloist.” Iksanov argues that Tsiskaridze’s contract as a part-time dance instructor was terminated in order to engage a full-time teacher.
Why Hollywood Churns Out Dreck Like New Year’s Eve And Valentine’s Day
“Think about what happens on your cable dial around Christmas. It starts getting clogged with the classics like A Christmas Story, It’s A Wonderful Life, and yes, in recent years, Love, Actually, all beamed into millions of homes. … Nobody actually pays attention to them any more. But their producers still get the same size residual checks every time they air.” Why should Hollywood stop at Christmas?
The Best Way To Watch TV? Binging
“For quality binge-watching, you have to go solo and go hard. Getting strung out on the tension of a long-arc narrative is private. And if we’re talking about the postholiday dead of winter, go drama and (for the most part) go cable. You can sit through days, weeks even, of CSIs and Grey’s Anatomys, but it’s the more cryptic, complicated, grisly stuff that makes for the most immersive experience.”
How Chinese Collectors Are Transforming The High-End Art Market
“The art market is being transformed by Chinese collectors willing to pay top dollar for everything from Ming vases to contemporary Chinese abstracts. In some cases, these works are outstripping prices paid for blue-chip Western artists like René Magritte and Clyfford Still. Three of the 10 most expensive art works sold at auction last year were by Chinese artists, according to art-market analyst Artprice. Last year’s priciest painting.”
Are British Actors’ Agents Cheating Regional Theatre In Pursuit Of Television?
“Some agents ‘won’t let their favourite young clients go and do shows in the regions,’ because they prefer instead to wait for potential television work that could pay more.”