John Bell, 75, who established Bell Shakespeare in 1990, will step down at the end of 2015.
Tag: 10.10.14
What Does It Take To Get Translated Into English, A Nobel Prize?
“As soon as the Nobel Prize in Literature was announced on Thursday, people started asking the inevitable question: Who is Patrick Modiano? … Here, let’s raise another question: Why is it that, so often, when a Nobel Prize is awarded to a non-American writer, readers in the U.S. – even the most well-read and cosmopolitan among us – find themselves drawing a blank?”
Ulster Orchestra Could “Cease To Exist” By Next Month, Warns Lawmaker
A member of Northern Ireland’s Legislative Assembly has said that, in just a few more weeks, the orchestra “will not have enough income to meet their outgoings. It’s a very bleak picture for them.” The province’s arts minister acknowledged that the ensemble’s finances have gone “from scary to scarier”.
A First For ArtPrize: Audience And Jury Choose The Same Winner
Anila Quayyum Agha’s light installation Intersections won the vote for the $200,000 Public Grand Prize outright and split the $200,000 Juried Grand Prize with Sonya Clark’s Hair Craft Project.
How A Milkman From A Russian Shtetl Became An American Icon
Studio 360 considers the unlikely success of Fiddler on the Roof. (audio)
This (Male) Novelist Read Only Women Writers For Three Years
“From Marguerite Duras, I learned that fragmentation is a way of breaking something so that it can describe something the whole cannot. From Christa Wolf, that inserting yourself and the circumstances of your life into a myth can transform the myth and your sense of yourself. I learned the power of prosody from Toni Morrison.”
Yeah, It’s Not Just On ‘Mad Men’ The Show That Someone Mixed Up The Two African-American Actors
“The moment Dawn and Shirley have in the kitchenette where they call each other by the other’s name, commenting on the fact that no one in the office can tell them apart, actually happened to myself and the actress who plays Shirley, Sola Bamis. I won’t say who the offenders were, but it’s happened … on more than one occasion.”
Welcome To Your New Artist’s Studio, Onboard The Cargo Ship
“Artist residencies are typically tied to a geographical place, while this project is anchored in a context and not in one physical location. … Global commerce then becomes the immediate work environment, rather than the fuel for the creative economy in which artists make and sell their work.”
Funding Woes Threaten One-Of-A-Kind Library Rescued From Nazi Germany
“Warburg defenders fear this will push the institute into financial ruin, putting it at risk of closing its stacks or even relocating and splitting apart its collection — a move that the prominent British art historian Martin Kemp recently wrote would be ‘the greatest act of vandalism in Western academia of my lifetime.'”
Homeland Security, Keeping The U.S. Safe From Foreign Poets
“The notion that Nasser might pose a threat to the United States is ‘ridiculous — unless poetry poses a threat to U.S. interests. He is an internationally recognized poet and a highly respected cultural figure in the Arab world.'”