Yuri Lyubimov, 93, founded Moscow’s Taganka Theatre in 1964 but fell out with its actors over pay during a Czech tour. “I have no intention of working with this troupe. Let them be led by their trade union. I’ve had enough of this disgrace, these humiliations, this lack of desire to work, this desire just for money.”
Tag: 06.27.11
UK Artists: Visa Process For Incoming Artists Is Broken
“Writers and performers who have long been welcomed by Britain now find that they are required to undergo a visa application process that is needlessly bureaucratic and intrusive. Non-European Union artists wishing to enter the country have been treated poorly, either through the application process or at entry points.”
Supreme Court Rejects Nazi-Looted-Art Case Against Norton Simon Museum
“The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided not to take up an appeal from Marei Von Saher, who is trying to wrest a prized, 480-year-old Adam and Eve diptych by Lucas Cranach the Elder from the Norton Simon Museum, where the paintings have hung since the 1970s.”
Alan Ayckbourn Archive To Be Made Available To Public
“More than a tonne of material on the career of Sir Alan Ayckbourn, from school exercise books to CDs tracking his meticulous revisions, has been bought by the University of York for £240,000 … with conditions to encourage its widest possible use.”
Actress Margaret Tyzack, 79
She “was one of Britain’s greatest and most popular actors, working on stage, television and film for more than half a century.” Among her most celebrated work was playing Marc Antony’s daughter Antonia in the TV series I, Claudius, co-starring with Maggie Smith in Lettice and Lovage, and a ferocious Martha in a National Theatre staging of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
Philadelphia Orchestra Players To Management: Show Us The Money
“As the largest creditor in the [orchestra’s bankruptcy] case,” the musicians’ union “is seeking documentation relating to endowments, grants, donations, bequests, and pledges to help determine whether a pension-fund claim may be satisfied from those assets.”
Alice Playten, 63, Diminutive New York Stage Actress
She was “a versatile character actress and musical comedy voice …who evolved from playing children’s roles like Baby Louise in the original Broadway production of Gypsy to Emma in Michael Weller’s drama Spoils of War and Grandma Gellman in the Tony Kushner-Jeanine Tesori musical, Caroline, or Change.”
Are Music Education Programs The Right Way For Orchestras To Increase Audiences?
Anne Midgette: “I am all for teaching as many children as much about music as possible. But this idea, as outlined, is a logical fallacy. For one thing, the audience that’s declining right now is an audience that DID have the benefit of music education: my peers, the people in their 40s and 50s.”
The Beauty Of Small Arts Festivals
Michael Billington: “What I can never quite get over in Galway is the feeling that you are part of a continuous 24-hour party (when do they ever sleep?) and that everyone local is involved: my wife, catching a bus to a photographic exhibition on the town’s fringe, suddenly found herself caught in an animated discussion with her fellow travellers about the work of Cartier-Bresson.”
Google And Getty Team Up For Visual Searches Of Artworks
“Google Goggles is at base a visual search engine that is activated not by typing in key phrases but by taking a picture on your smartphone of the object … in question. They call it a ‘visual query.’ Now Getty visitors using the program can take pictures of paintings that interest them to bring up links to information, starting with content prepared by the museum.”