The Dallas Museum of Art has acquired All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, completed last year and Kusama’s first pumpkin-themed installation since 1991. The work goes on display Oct. 1.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Construction Begins On Manchester’s New Arts Hub
“The cube-shaped building, scheduled to open in 2020, will be the first major UK commission for Rem Koolhaas’s OMA architectural practice. The centre for art, theatre, dance and music events” – known as The Factory – “will form part of the new St John’s neighbourhood, to be built on the site of the former Granada TV studios in the city centre.”
Kenneth Silverman, 81, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographer
“Trading bombast for rigorous research, he wrote acclaimed biographies of American innovators as varied as Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Morse, John Cage, Harry Houdini and [Cotton] Mather himself, in a research-intensive process that Dr. Silverman described as ‘wrestling with an angel.'”
The Director Of The Paris Opera Ballet, And The Modern-Dance Choreographer Who Taught Her How To Breathe Again
Aurélie Dupont: “Normally when you’re a ballet dancer, you do not ever show the effort when you dance, so you never breathe. Because breathing means that you need air, and if you need air that’s not good, and, anyway, you never learn how to breathe in school. Never.” Reporter Gia Kourlas talks with Dupont, former étoile and current director at the world’s oldest and most august ballet company, and choreographer Saburo Teshigawara.
Which Museum Landed The Fabled €500 Million Cerruti Collection Of Artworks?
“Turin’s Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art has obtained the legendary art collection of Francesco Federico Cerruti. … The iconic trove features 300 masterpieces from the Middle Ages to the 20th century accumulated by the enigmatic Italian collector. Extraordinary works by Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, and Amedeo Modigliani, as well as Pontormo, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, René Magritte, Andy Warhol, and Guilio Paolini feature in the jaw-dropping collection, alongside various furnishings and rare and ancient books.”
New Mayor Wants To Pull Books Depicting Same-Sex Unions From Verona’s Schools And Libraries
Says Federico Sboarina, who was elected in late June, “I am convinced that the family is composed [of a] mother and father, and I will defend this value in the education of children and young people.” Other local politicians are joining library and publishing organizations and gay advocates in pushing back against the policy.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.11.17
Social Silos
“I don’t know anyone who … ”
Recently, a colleague presented a workshop on nonprofit financial management to a group of board members of and volunteers for very small grassroots social service organizations. In the course of … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2017-07-11
A Bit Of Moscow Music
Our occasional Rifftides Russian correspondent, Svetlana Ilicheva, writes that one of her favorite listening spots in Moscow is the Zhurfac café. Not far from the Kropotkinskaya metro stop on Gogol Boulevard … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2017-07-11
Hollywood’s Problem In 2017 Is, Simply, Bad Movies
“The refrain is always the same: Who cares if the fifth Transformers is drawing little enthusiasm in the United States when it’s doing well in China? But that defense is becoming more specious, as international audiences are also seemingly growing tired of the endless assembly line of action films, while the biggest box-office story of 2017 is the success of smaller-budgeted original films.”
America’s Original Fourth TV Network, Now Forgotten
“Long before FOX was hailed as the true fourth network, there was DuMont, an underfunded and largely forgotten broadcast pioneer whose lost recordings have become the stuff of minor legend. … Debuting in 1946, the network was actually started as a ploy to sell televisions.” (includes video clips)
The Countertenor Pushing His Fach Into The 21st Century
Anthony Roth Costanzo has ” pushed beyond the old-music limitations of traditional countertenors, performing new works written for him by composers including Nico Muhly, Jake Heggie, Suzanne Farrin, Steven Mackey and Matthew Aucoin.” New music star Claire Chase says, “what Anthony is doing is making that tool [the countertenor voice], with its range and its versatility, viable for composers in the 21st century.”