“Painted originally in 1961 in the bedroom of New York City’s Chertoff children – Nina and Larry – and moved to the Rosenbach several years ago, the mural now promises to catch the eyes of borrowers at the … Free Library of Philadelphia’s new branch, opening soon at Broad and Morris Streets in South Philadelphia.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Prince Was So Ferocious About His Intellectual Property, He Got A ‘Lifetime Aggrievement Award’
“In 2013, the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave Prince … the Raspberry Beret Lifetime Aggrievement Award, in honor of his groundbreaking use of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to prevent fans of his music from publishing his tunes or image anywhere he didn’t want them to be. … For all the groundbreaking work he created as a musician in the 20th century, his approach to the internet and copyright was shockingly old-school, and one that should be studied for centuries after his passing.”
Why Katy Pyle Created A Queer ‘Ballez’ Company
“I just don’t believe in neutral. I want to use this form to show that people are still carrying these subconscious judgments and ideas about how we should behave in relation to each other, how we should look and move, and what’s possible and what’s allowed.”
UK’s Oldest Contemporary Dance Company Launches Choreography Fellowships
“Over the next three years, the Leverhulme Choreography Fellowship will support three professional dancers in making the transition from dancing to full-time choreography. The fellows will each spend a year with Rambert as part of the programme, which will run alongside the company’s existing music fellowship and choreographic development programme.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.21.16
This Week in Audience (04.17.16)
My Audience, My Computer: Scientists fed images of all of Rembrandt’s paintings into a database then had the computer create a “next” Rembrandt based on the artist’s style. You can think… … read more
AJBlog: AJ Arts Audience Published 2016-04-21
Today in Museum Accounting: Financial Windfall at MoMA, Shortfall at the Met
The contrast in the financial news emanating today from New York’s two premier art museums could not have been more dramatic. The Museum of Modern Art issued an exultant press release celebrating David Geffen‘s $100-million … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-04-21
Stan Levey And “Bebop”
Several readers who responded to Monday’s Stan Levey book recommendation singled out his work on “Bebop” as one of the greatest modern jazz drum performances. They will get no argument here. Samples: I’m thrilled every … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-04-21
Replay: Vladimir Nabokov on the covers of Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov talks about the covers of different editions of Lolita on USA: The Novel. This episode was originally telecast on WNET on February 3, 1965. … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2016-04-21
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How Whit Stillman’s Films Humanized The 1%
“Medieval morality plays had vice; Marxists, the bourgeoisie; and my English professors, dead white males. (They also worried about power, brainchild of Foucault’s bald pate.) But these days, we cross our index fingers in the face of privilege. … No one, however, has done more to humanize poor old two-dimensional Privilege than the filmmaker Whit Stillman. … Unsurprisingly, this seems to trouble his critics.”
After Margaret Cho Bombs At A Club, A Comedy God Gets Her A Second Chance
Thus spake the deity: “So as I was talking with Margaret about this show last week …, we started wondering, wouldn’t it be something if we could go back to New Jersey, back to that club with the same audience and try to make things right? Have a discussion where both sides – comedian and audience – could talk about what happened? And then both of us could do a show – a sort of redo for the audience?”
Can A Roman Deus Ex Machina Save The Arena Di Verona’s Opera Festival?
The foundation that operates the festival – whose visitors make a huge contribution to Verona’s economy – went into bankruptcy liquidation earlier this month. So Italy’s culture minister has sent in Carlo Fuortes, the man he hired to save Rome’s desperately dysfunctional opera house from collapse.
Foreigners Like Shakespeare More Than Brits Do: Study (They Understand It Better, Too)
“A survey of 18,000 people in 15 countries reveals, for example, that 88% of surveyed Mexicans like Shakespeare, compared with only 59% of British people; 84% of Brazilians said they found him relevant to today’s world, compared with 57% in the UK; and 83% of Indians said they understood him, far more than the 58% of Britons.”
Seeing The Most Iconic Works Of Art Is Now A Nightmare, And There’s No Good Way To Make It Better
“The Louvre’s audience-control issues aren’t unique to that institution; at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, you have to work your way up to Rembrandt’s The Night Watch through the crowds of people clustering around … So what’s to be done?”