“The prints of the cans, which are among the artist’s most recognizable works, had been part of the Springfield Art Museum’s collection since 1985, and were currently on display in a special exhibit of British and American pop art.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
’60 Minutes’ Profiles Christopher Wheeldon
Lesley Stahl does a 13-minute segment on the star choreographer. (video plus transcript)
The Personal Memories We Think Of As Making Up Our Identities – What If We Didn’t Have Them? Here’s A Woman Who Doesn’t, And Never Has
“Susie McKinnon has no core memories that she is aware of. But there can be no doubt of her personality. … She has a job and she has hobbies, values, beliefs, opinions, a nucleus of friends. Though she doesn’t remember being a part of the anecdotes that shaped her into this person, she knows very well who she is. Which raises the question: Just how expendable is this supposedly essential part of being human after all?”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.13.16
Customer, Client, Collaborator?
In January, Doug McLennan published a post Is Earning Making Money The New Audience-Building Strategy? In a comparison of for-profit and not-for-profit enterprise, he began to intrigue me when, addressing the former, he said … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2016-04-12
$1 for Music Unwound
The NEH Music Unwound consortium, which most recently brought Dvorak’s New World Symphony to an Indian reservation, has been re-funded by the Endowment with a $400,000 grant, bringing the total NEH investment to … read more
AJBlog: Unanswered Question Published 2016-04-13
A Big Picture: The Big Country
William Wyler’s anti-macho Western The Big Country, which is remarkable for its imposing visual beauty and sonorous musical score, makes it to the (relatively) big screen at the New York Historical Society (as in bigger … read more
AJBlog: Straight|Up Published 2016-04-13
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Michael Shannon On Why Acting Doesn’t Work As Therapy
“To me it’s a job. Whatever my personal situation is, if I can extricate myself from it and say, ‘OK, I’m Bob or Tom or whatever’ then that’s great and you can get lots of attention. But then you come home at the end of the day and find that you’re still a trainwreck as a human being.”
British Playwright And Author Arnold Wesker Dead At 83
“After first gaining prominence in the 1950s, critics grouped him with other working class writers sometimes referred to as the ‘angry young men’ generation, although Wesker rejected the label. He was later characterised as a leading voice of 1960s ‘kitchen sink’ British drama.”
For Its Next Principal Conductor, Santa Fe Symphony Chooses An Old Friend And Neighbor
Guillermo Figueroa, who begins his term this fall, was music director of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra in Albuquerque from 2000 to the orchestra’s closure in 2011.
Doug Banks, Chicago Radio Legend, Dead At 57
“From his humble beginnings to the devoted following he found in Chicago to national syndication, he was a man – a black man – whose four-decade career shaped radio as we know it. And … in a medium often dominated by loud, white, obnoxious shock jocks with particular politics, he was something else: nice.”
Homintern: The Gay Cultural Mafia That Transformed 20th-Century Culture
“Homintern” – a riff on Lenin’s Comintern – “was the name various people jokingly coined to describe a sprawling, informal network of contacts that occupied a prominent site near the centre of modern life. It may have started as a joke, but it was taken all too seriously by those whom it infuriated.”
Ten Gay Works That Changed The Modern World
Philip Hensher’s list runs from the expected (Proust) to the … well, not (Ellen’s talk show changed the culture?).