Carlisle Floyd, whose operas translated Tales of the South, dies at 95

[ad_1] His latest opera, “Prince of Players,” was premiered by the Houston Grand Opera in March 2016, months before his 90th birthday, and was performed by the Little Opera Theater in New York at Hunter College in February 2017. Based on a Jeffrey Hatcher play (and a subsequent 2004 film) about Edward Kynaston, one of …

Sarah Cain Redefines Seriousness in Painting

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — Last summer, painter Sarah Cain was designing the biggest project of her career: a 45-foot-tall painting for the East Atrium of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, 42-year-old Cain renders causticly colourful. Since the mid-2000s, he has made improvised abstractions and was commissioned to hide the construction walls during …

The head of Ozy Media resigned as the company faced questions.

[ad_1] head Ozy Media board He resigned on Thursday, saying he lacked “experience in crisis management and investigations” to continue leading the company. Marc Lasry, a hedge fund manager who also co-owns the Milwaukee Bucks, made the announcement four days after the New York Times reported that one of Ozy was impersonating a YouTube executive …

FIFA Considers Moving Business Business to the USA

[ad_1] Looking to expand its global footprint beyond its monastic headquarters next to a zoo on the outskirts of Zurich, football’s governing body FIFA is exploring the feasibility of porting its financial engine, the business operation that generates billions of dollars in revenue for the organization. to the United States. Possible move will be determined …

Edward Keating, Times Photographer at Ground Zero, dies at 65

[ad_1] For more than a month, disguised as a worker, he did whatever it took to photograph the ground zero wreckage after September 11, 2001, and contributed to The New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Died Sunday in Manhattan for photography for 9/11 coverage. He was 65 years old. His wife, Carrie Keating, said the …

New Paramount head keeps cleaning house and showing another

[ad_1] Regime change in Hollywood studios is almost always bloody. A new king or queen arrives and those loyal to the previous palace lose their jobs. But the guillotine is falling on Paramount Pictures with surprising speed, and something like panic He’s in the 109-year-old film company. Paramount owner ViacomCBS fired Paramount president James N. …

Portraits of an Artist Joined Together in the Subway

[ad_1] LJ Roberts begins by stitching up the faces of friends and lovers, remembering the contours of a photograph recorded in hand-stitched portraits or a deeply personal memory. For the past ten years, the artist has created these pocket-sized embroideries during downtime and subway rides in New York. A carpet of queer and trans history, …