“In an effort to reach out to new audiences, Northern Ballet is offering customers are chance to watch dress rehearsals before committing to buying tickets for performances.”
Tag: 07.19.12
Arizona Opera Finishes Season With Profit
“Buoyed by a 7 percent boost in single-ticket sales and soldout performances of Aida last spring, Arizona Opera ended its 41st season in the black. The company, which mounts productions in Tucson and Phoenix, also raised two-thirds of its inaugural $7.4 million capital campaign during the 2011-12 season.”
Susan Sarandon Says She’s Done Everything Wrong
“I’ve done everything wrong so there’s really no explanation as to why I’m still around. … I’ve taken movies that people told me I shouldn’t, I’ve taken years off to have children, I’ve been outspoken politically, and here I am. … I’m here because all my plans failed.”
British Gov’t To Review Digital Book Lending In Libraries
“The government is preparing to announce a review into ebook lending following calls from the opposition to move libraries ‘into the 21st century’. Although some of the UK’s library authorities do offer ebook lending, many do not, and many publishers have been wary of making their digital titles available for lending, meaning the range of ebooks in libraries is often restricted.”
Are Shakespeare’s Women Second-Class Citizens? Janet Suzman Thinks So
“What I am struck by … is that none of the women are awarded interiority in nearly the same measure as the male characters. No soliloquies of any note, although Cleopatra comes nearest, achieving a Lear-like clarity about her place in the world after the death of Antony. And none of them earn the lengthy scholarly analysis accorded the eponymous heroes of the canon.”
Roman Polanski Gets A Marshall-McLuhan-In-Annie-Hall Moment
Blogger and aspect ratio obsessive Jeffrey Wells posted a rant this week slamming the Criterion Collection’s new remastering of Rosemary’s Baby for using what Wells sees as the wrong screen width-to-height proportion. And who should turn up at the tail end of the reader comments?
British Museum Returns 843 Artifacts To Afghanistan
Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, said the pieces’ restitution was “the outcome of the ongoing dialogue between our cultural institutions, as well as the support of the authorities, to identify and preserve items from the national collection of Afghanistan that had been illegally removed during years of conflict”.
Elite Taste – You Have To Be Rich To Afford It
“The idea that elites congratulate themselves on their eclectic tastes, while not recognizing that they are class-determined, is thought-provoking and significant. The reality, however, is certainly at least a little more complicated; for one thing, you certainly don’t need to be painfully wealthy to have eclectic tastes.”
Grafitti Artist Banned From Olypics Sites
A professional graffiti artist has been ordered not to go within a mile of any Games site for more than three months after being arrested over years-old allegations just ten days before the Opening Ceremony
Local Funding To Arts Is Endangered Because Of Budget Cuts
“Cuts to local government funding from Whitehall, coupled with the increasing cost to local councils of delivering adult social care and other statutory services, will mean that discretionary funding streams will have to be cut by 90% in cash terms to meet a projected £16.5 billion shortfall. Arts funding is one such discretionary stream.”