(Arts, Philadelphia) The performance artist was set to do a weeklong workshop at the university, but was told Sunday that the president of Villanova had cancelled it. ...Read more...
Art News
Are the Arts in Decline? Depends on How You Look at It.
February 21, 2012
(Arts, National) Jed Perl of “The New Republic” takes a shot at recasting the conversation. ...Read more...
L.A. Opera tries new pricing scheme for ‘Albert Herring’
February 21, 2012
(Opera, Los Angeles) Special discounted prices are being offered for the Opera’s upcoming rendition of Brittan’s “Albert Herring”, which opens February 25. ...Read more...
All-Volunteer Start-up Radio Station Brings Jazz Back to Columbus’ Airwaves
February 21, 2012
(Jazz, Columbus) Jazz radio has returned to Columbus in the form of WCRX-LP, Bexley Public Radio. ...Read more...
Philadelphia’s Academy of Vocal Arts Remains Stalwart
February 21, 2012
(Opera, Philadelphia) The American opera scene is fairly unsettled at the moment, but the AVA is still doing what it does best – turning talented amateurs into seasoned opera professionals. ...Read more...
UC Berkeley Loses Track of a Gigantic Piece of Sculpture
February 21, 2012
(Arts, Berkeley) The university has a little egg on its face now after half of a huge redwood relief, valued at more than a million dollars, was somehow misplaced and sold for a pittance at the university’s surplus store. ...Read more...
Antonio Banderas Will Play Pablo Picasso
February 21, 2012
(Film, Arts, National) The Desperado star will play Picasso circa 1937 in “33 Days”; the film is scheduled to shoot this summer. ...Read more...
A Nickel a Ticket for Off-Off-Broadway
February 20, 2012
(Theater, New York) The new Independent Theater Fund, which is dedicated to maintaining the financial solvency of small, struggling New York theater companies, will receive a nickel for every ticket sold from some fifty New York companies. ...Read more...
Ansel Adams, Out of Yosemite and Into L.A.
February 20, 2012
(Art Museums, Los Angeles) A selection of photos Adams shot in L.A. in the late 1930s, “Ansel Adams Los Angeles”, is up at drkrm gallery through March 17. ...Read more...
A New Look at Depression-Era American Art at the Neuberger Museum
February 20, 2012
(Art Museums, Westchester County) “American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning and Their Circle, 1927-1942″, runs through April 29. ...Read more...
