Current director James Mullighan had only four months to assemble ths year’s EFF, which has come under fire for a shrunken programme, fewer glamourous events and other issues. Mullighan would like to stay on, “but it is expected the post of artistic director will be advertised in early July.”
Tag: 06.23.11
Bankrupt Syracuse Symphony Has No Money (Whatsoever) For Players And Vendors
“The folded symphony has $327,000 worth of stuff and $4 million in liabilities. M&T Bank, the biggest secured creditor, is likely to get everything, leaving nothing for the hundreds of unpaid vendors and staff and people who bought concert tickets they could not use.”
‘Weird Al Yankovic Was A Prophet’
“Thirty-two years after his first single, it’s now Yankovic’s world, with cheap recording technology and the infinite distribution channels of the Internet allowing bedroom parodists to launch their creations instantaneously into the universe.”
Julie Taymor Was Never A Good Match For Spider-Man
“As a visualist, she is every bit the genius and visionary one has so often heard praised over the years; everyone seems to agree on that. … [But] Taymor’s most successful works, such as The Lion King, are based on simple, literal stories already fully fleshed out, like a readymade armature that can be adapted and clothed to suit her purposes.”
NY City’s Urban Planning Czar
“Chairing the City Planning Commission since 2002, Amanda Burden, age 67, has revolutionized its role in the city, transforming a once-sleepy bureaucratic agency into an activist department championing good design by using zoning as a weapon to enforce her vision.”
Cooper-Hewitt’s Exhibition Galleries To Close For Two-Year Renovation
“The exhibition galleries at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will close on July 4 for a two-year renovation and expansion.”
Does Boston’s Top Irish Mobster Know Something About The Gardner Art Theft?
“[With] the arrest in Santa Monica Wednesday of notorious Boston crime boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, many in the art world are now asking: Could it provide a break in the greatest art heist in American history?”
Crewmember At Broadway How To Succeed Dies Backstage
“The Wednesday night performance of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on Broadway was canceled after a stagehand died from what the police said was a drug overdose he suffered backstage.”
The Anti-Bollywood: Indian Cinema Develops An Indie Scene
“Surely the only Indian film to reference sex and drugs in both its title and abbreviation, LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha [‘and Betrayal’] is one of the new wave of Indian indies – edgy, off-beat films challenging the stereotype of Indian cinema as tear-jerking, all-singing, all-dancing Bollywood.”
Pottermore.com: J.K. Rowling Unveils Interactive Website for Harry Potter Fans
“JK Rowling shocked and thrilled her fans in equal measure today, with the revelation that her new venture Pottermore was set to feature a wealth of new and previously unpublished material about the world of Harry Potter.”