“The Vancouver Opera posted a significant budget shortfall this past season, joining two other Vancouver major arts organizations facing financial difficulties. The 53-year-old organization had a $1.4-million loss on its $9.2-million operating budget for the fiscal year that ended in June.”
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Gideon Obarzanek’s Last Dance With Chunky Move
“Assembly is the final piece he will create before he steps down as artistic director of Chunky Move, the [Melbourne-based] contemporary dance company he founded in 1995.” The piece, involving 60 performers, is also one of his largest.
Fox Having A Cow As Shutdown Of The Simpsons Looms
“A money dispute between Fox and the actors who voice the characters on The Simpsons may force the long-running hit series to shut down next spring.”
Miami’s Arsht Center Finally Begins Living Up To Its Potential
“Five years to the day after first opening its halls, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts is drawing crowds young and old to musicals, flamenco and opera, finally becoming the cultural town square envisioned by its early supporters. It’s also making its budget” – four years running.
Willem De Kooning’s Maligned Late Work, Now Vindicated
“The late abstractions, painted when de Kooning suffered from dementia … [have] been denigrated for years because of his diminished mental and physical state during the 1980s. Many wondered how an artist who had lost his short-term memory, had difficulty writing, and could no longer sign his name could complete 26 paintings in 1987. See for yourself.”
Dudamel And LA Phil Launch Sistema-Style Program
“The Los Angeles Philharmonic, building on its symbiotic relationship with Venezuela’s El Sistema national youth music training program, is partnering with Bard College in upstate New York and the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Mass., to launch a joint musical education initiative.”
New York’s Bessies Inaugurate A Lifetime Achievement Award – With Trisha Brown
“Trisha Brown, the modern dance choreographer, is to receive a ‘Bessie’ award for lifetime achievement … Ms. Brown’s award is the first of what will become an annual honor for choreographers” at the Bessies, officially called the New York Dance and Performance Awards.”
Architects Of Jerusalem’s Museum Of Tolerance Threaten To Quit
“According to a municipal official, the architects – Bracha and Michael Chyutin – threatened to resign Monday over differences with the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, which sponsored and financed the project. ‘The [Wiesenthal] Center drove the architects crazy. It asked for daily briefings and nagged them to death,’ the official said.”
Architecture Critic And City Planning Head Stroll Through South Bronx
Michael Kimmelman: “Following up on my review last week of Via Verde, a groundbreaking green housing project soon to be completed in the Melrose section of the South Bronx, I took a walk around that neighborhood with Amanda M. Burden, director the Department of City Planning under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.”
If Broadway Won’t Come To Jesus, Jesus Will Come To Broadway
“Broadway fans would be wise to brush up on the New Testament this season as two Christ-themed musicals” – Godspell next month and Jesus Christ Superstar in March – “are scheduled to descend from the heavens onto New York.”