According to a press release from the University of Oregon, former UVA Art Museum director Jill Hartz, whose name was quietly removed from the museum’s staff website during the winter, has accepted a position as executive director of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon.
As the saying goes, “Every dog has his day.” Well, the dog formerly at the center of Irwin Berman’s exhibit at the University of Virginia Art Museum has left the school with a steaming, heaping pile of orange and blue turds on its paws.
The gods that pass judgment on each Live Arts season were benevolent during the community theater’s April 21 season announcement. Seated in the balcony, members of the reading committee—including J. Hernandez, fresh from a brilliantly two-sided turn in The Voysey Inheritance at Culbreth Theatre; critical carving knife and Daedalus bookstore owner Sandy McAdams; directors Kay […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
Who died and made Leslie Feist our iPod queen, the digital age’s pop heir to Debbie Harry, equal parts lounge chanteuse and dance floor provocateur?
We’re a few hours from the start of the Atlantic Coastal Conference Lacrosse finals, and Duke already has the barest of psychological edges over the UVA squad.
Ah, “low budget”—the most bogus term in filmmaking! A phrase used as justification for a poor movie and as an obstacle overcome by a great film, one that runs the gamut from…
The expression “behind closed doors” is a favorite of mine. There’s the weight of it, the dense and dark tone of its implication mixed with the fluff and nothingness of the actual phrase, like a mother telling a child “Because I said so, that’s why.” There’s the gameshow temptation, the “Deal or No Deal” thrill […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.