“Dance has been looking for a star to succeed Darcey Bussell. With Tamara Rojo it has found her, says Alice Jones.”
Tag: 04.26.10
The Latest Use For Creative Visualization: Getting Kids To Do Homework
“Why do so many teens lack the necessary motivation to rigorously focus on their schoolwork? To quote William Shakespeare – whom your seventh-grader should be studying right now, rather than instant-messaging her friends – the problem may be in their mind’s eye.”
Was Irene Nemirovsky Really A Self-Loathing Jew?
Along with the posthumous publication of and acclaim for her book Suite Française “came charges from a handful of critics that Némirovsky, killed because she was a Jew, was herself an anti-Semite who courted extreme right-wing friends and wrote ugly caricatured portraits of Jews.” A new biography says that the truth was far more complicated.
Glee Geeks Show Idol How It’s Really Done
“Next to ‘Glee’s’ supercharged vocals, over-the-top choreography and radiant glow of professionalism – not to mention white-hot record sales of late – those kids struggling away on ‘Idol’ are starting to look kinda … lame.”
On Closing The Gap Between The Arts And The Public
“When will Canada grant equal status to those whose hearts are more likely to be set aflutter by the sound of great music in a concert hall than by the sight of goons on skates smashing one another into the boards? I have a dream, a personal feel-good movie, in which the crowds roar their approval as the artist team rallies and the scoreboard flashes Hockey Night in Canada 4, Cultural Weekend 6.”
Bad Arts Management Has One Major Cause: Bad Training
Michael Kaiser: “It seems disingenuous for major funders to chastise or ignore organizations with poor management when these same funders have avoided funding programs to improve the quality of arts managers. We spend billions of dollars to train singers, dancers and actors, and insignificant amounts to train the people who employ them.”
A New Role For Public Libraries: Grocer’s Helper
“The Virtual Supermarket Project is part of a city push to make healthy food more accessible in communities where major supermarkets are scarce. Baltimore’s health department launched it last month at two of the city’s public library branches.”
San Francisco’s Fly-In Museum
“The San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is the country’s only airport with a museum program accredited by the American Association of Museums. Exhibits are scattered through various terminals and change several times a month.”
Domingo Is At La Scala, So His Singing Competition Is, Too
“Sophisticated Milan may be blasé about many things, but along with design and soccer, opera is not one of them. Domingo’s presence in town is a local happening, and it is hard not to bump into his image touting Operalia … quite literally in the case of the advertisement placards dangling from the ceilings inside subway cars.”
Hockney’s iPhone Days Are Over: He Draws On An iPad Now
“The iPad screen now allows him to make images of greater scale and complexity. Instead of just using one finger, he finds himself drawing with all of them. Is that more difficult than using a conventional pencil, brush or pen? ‘In a way, it’s faster,’ he says. ‘I can change color or the width of the mark very rapidly on this, quicker than with an ordinary computer.'”