“Lincoln, who died on Aug. 14 at age 80, owed her status as a great artist not just to her musical gifts, but also to a bold originality that accommodated the classical values of Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan while foreshadowing the modernist impulses of Diana Krall, Dianne Reeves and Cassandra Wilson.”
Tag: 08.22.10
Does Departure Of Two Top Dallas Arts Exec Say Something About The City’s Arts Fortunes?
“The buzz is about the recent departures of two top arts executives after short stints on the job – one from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra , the second from the AT&T Performing Arts Center, the parent organization over the two new halls. What kind of trouble lurks behind the facades in the Dallas Arts District?”
Indie Record Labels Compete Directly With “Big” Labels
“With record sales dwindling and digital downloads the medium of choice — 62% of first-week sales of “The Suburbs” were digital — the music business is showing even more signs of flattening, a reality evident at labels throughout Southern California.”
LA’s Downtown Renaissance – A Tale Of Two Cities
“The sections of downtown that are thriving — along Spring Street near 5th Street, in the Arts District, on the edges of Little Tokyo — are precisely the ones that have happily sidestepped the burden of trying to be the cultural, financial or architectural epicenter of Los Angeles. They are finding vitality as pockets of adventurous and experimental culture, and they are gaining traction because of their peripheral nature, not in spite of it.”
American Repertory Theater – Box Office Way Up. But At What Cost?
“To her supporters, [ART director Diane] Paulus is a crowd-inspiring theater revolutionary. To her detractors, she is the Broadway-obsessed, box-office-driven director who has dismantled a prized institution.”
Do Networks Care That Their Audiences Are Getting Older?
“The risk in having a rapidly aging audience is that the networks may become less relevant to advertisers, the backbone of their business. Increasingly, that’s a way of thinking that itself is getting old.”
Is Christo River Project In Colorado Endangered?
“The artists’ idea of suspending nearly 6 miles of fabric over the Arkansas River has met with stout resistance. And the notion that the state might send them packing is unsettling — even embarrassing — to many in the region’s arts establishment.”
Van Gogh Stolen From Cairo Museum
“A Van Gogh painting worth $50m (£32m) stolen from a museum in Cairo is still missing, despite reports it had been recovered hours after the theft.”
The Heirs of Hirschfeld Speak
“Actors covet them. Producers dream of them. Marvin Hamlisch even composed a musical about one.” “They” are the caricature drawings that made Al Hirschfeld a legend. Four of the current generation of theater illustrators talk to the Times about what they do.