“Seattle Art Museum’s contemporary/modern curator Michael Darling is the big boy with the unkillable career, ascending ever more heavenly realms – from LA Weekly art critic to LA MOCA curator to SAM in 2006 to Chicago July 12, where he’ll be chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art.”
Tag: 04.29.10
The Moulin Rouge Meets Versailles: Making New Dances With Baroque Movement
“Austin McCormick – choreographer and director of Company XIV – is a specialist of the European dance styles from around the 17th century, when it experienced its second major phase of development in France. He draws on this tradition to create new works for the contemporary stage that mix the older techniques with a more modern sensibility.”
Orlando PAC Gets New $1M Gift, Breaks Ground At Last
“A downtown fire station will be demolished today to make way for the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, a long-awaited first step delayed for months while the city cemented a financing plan. Organizers behind the ambitious arts center also will announce today that another donor has stepped up and given $1 million to help finance the project.”
The Genius Of South Park‘s Handling Of The Prophet Mohammed
“The dustup revolves around a set of seeming absolutes that, upon closer scrutiny, dissolve into a dizzying array of questions. For starters, were [the writers] trying to ‘make fun’ of Mohammed, were they trying to merely ‘depict’ him, or, once we find ourselves within the mirthful city limits of South Park, Colo. (not to mention the give-no-quarter limits of fundamentalist Islam), is there no meaningful distinction between parody and depiction?”
How We Can Tell That You’re Not Paying Attention
“When your mind wanders, you’re not paying attention to what’s going in front of you. A new study suggests that it’s not just the mind, it’s the body, too; when subjects’ minds wandered, they blinked more, setting up a tiny physical barrier between themselves and the outside world.”
British Theatre Critics Loved Enron – Why Don’t The Americans?
“According to the useful review aggregator StageGrade, New York critics gave Enron a median grade of B, which includes an outright slam from Ben Brantley of the New York Times. … Given the hype that preceded Enron, the turn of events is surprising. But then, it should shock no one that British critics raved about the show …”
Stop With The Metaphors: Political Debates Aren’t Theatre
“In fact, the evidence from the famous 76 rules agreed between the parties is that great effort has gone into suppressing any hints of theatricality. The reaction of the live theatre audience is carefully contained: rule 40 stops it applauding, rule 71 ensures its grimaces and smiles are hidden from us.”
Beat Poet Michael Horovitz Joins Oxford Poetry Prof Race
“If ‘by a fluke’ he were elected, Horovitz said he would look to open discussions about poetry up to everything which is ‘broadly poetic’, from pop music to rap and rock’n’roll, showing the overlap between poetry and music as well as the visual arts….”
In The Wake Of Dudamel’s Agent Switch
“[T]he preening on one side and seething annoyance on the other attest to the pride involved. To add spice to the story, both agencies are based in London, the world capital of classical music deal-making. And both are run by men who, 30 years ago, cut their teeth in the same office.”
How To Impress The Lost-Baggage Office In Tokyo
“I explained the importance of retrieving my bag by the following day since I was following the Philadelphia Orchestra to Korea and then China…. ‘Philadelphia Orchestra’ turned out to be a fairly magical pair of words.” But the lost-baggage people “were even more impressed when I said that [the bag’s contents included] a shopping bag from the Juilliard School of Music bookstore.”