“American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, a stunning announcement that for the first time bestowed the prestigious award on a musician. “The Swedish Academy cited Dylan for ‘having created new poetic expressions within the great Ameri[...]
Posts Tagged ‘arts’
July 8th, 2016 - 11:28 am § in Misc.
David Brewster: When The Opera Costs Too Much
David Brewster That magnificent opera house in Oslo, sloping down to the water, is in financial trouble. The saga illustrates again the peril of smashing architecture for cultural institutions: high costs, dominated by tourists, swollen staffs. Financial drama grips the Opera Playing out behind the [...]
December 4th, 2015 - 7:55 am § in The Ave Scene
David Brewster: Boston Theaters Threatened
David Brewster Theaters are going dark in Boston and Mayor Marty Walsh, who campaigned as an arts mayor, is administering platitudes, not solutions. The story is a warning about how when politicians advocate the arts, they are usually just wanting votes and donations but don’t want to stand up[...]
David Brewster: Arts Coverage Dies
David Brewster Ominous, but unconfirmed, rumors about cuts in arts coverage at NYTimes and WSJournal. Not long ago, Times folks said that non-New York readers particularly liked paper for foreign coverage and arts stories. But still, both papers need to make staff cuts. Another factor: a lot of arts[...]