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Photographer Leibovitz strikes new debt deal to retain portfolio
NEW YORK - Annie Leibovitz, the photographer who mismanaged her fortune so badly that she faced losing legal rights to some of pop culture’s most enduring images, has reached a long-term agreement with a private investment firm to help manage her debt and market her vast portfolio, both sides said yesterday. | Stop-motion discourse
Yui Kugimiya uses her paintings to create stop-motion animation. It’s an eye-catching form, stilted but compelling, like William Kentridge’s animated films made with drawings and erasures. But Kentridge, a South African, touches on issues of violence, oppression, and accountability, and Kugimiya, raised in Japan and educated here, takes on lighter themes, populating her stories with cats and birds. Her show ... | Everyone’s companion
Almost 36 years ago, the first broadcast of “A Prairie Home Companion’’ was hosted in St. Paul by University of Minnesota grad Garrison Keillor. The show ended in 1987, resumed in New York in 1989 under a different name, returned to Minnesota, and in 1993 took back its original name. Sounds like a skit that millions of listeners might hear ... | Candid camera
Imagine gaping at Tina Turner, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, and Mick Jagger at the same time. Dreams come true at the Worcester Art Museum’s exhibit “Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present , ’’ with more than 100 candid shots, photos of live performances, publicity portraits, and album cover art. Special activities include a Rock ... | A sanctuary for dance
You’re in for a treat whenever you watch the José Mateo Ballet Theatre perform in its intimate, cabaret-style, comfy Sanctuary Theatre (with or without a glass of wine). Tomorrow’s extra treat is “Out of the Dark , ’’ a concert of two ballets. In Mateo’s “Mozart Concerto’’ a monarch is torn between her court and lover; the second piece is ... | A loose bunch
If you think opera is stuffy, here’s your decongestant. OperaHub’s “Der Zwerg ’’ (“The Dwarf’’) finishes up the chamber opera’s “Pretzels and Beer’’ season, a celebration of Germanic text and music. Based on a short story by Oscar Wilde, Alexander Zemlinsky’s story, originally set in imperial Spain, takes place in the present at an exclusive resort community. The tale about ... |
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