“A completely intact apartment by American Postmodern architect Michael Graves has been in storage at the Brooklyn Museum since it was acquired in 1986. Similar to other Postmodern designs by Graves, the apartment features ornamental design, an eclectic blend of classical references and muted color palettes.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Digital Journalism Tries To Straddle The Apple-Google, App-Web Divide
“Apple wants mobile devices to be filled with apps. Google supports a world where people browse the web for most things. Now websites are increasingly caught in the middle of those competing visions.”
Should Art Be Timeless Or Should It Speak To Something More Current?
Adam Kirsch: “If you Google ‘Homer’ and ‘bees,’ you get images of Homer Simpson, not quotations from the Iliad.”
James Parker: “I resent it, this mania for topicality. Update, refresh, delete cache, clear history, change your underpants.”
(But they agree that if you aim for timelessness, you’ll probably miss.)
Misty Copeland To Produce Primetime Dance Drama For Fox TV
“The untitled project, which has been set up at Fox through 20th Century Fox TV, follows a young, hip and diverse group of aspiring dancers as they fiercely compete for places in a top ballet company.”
Will New Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Be Good For The Arts?
Well, he’d have to be better than Stephen Harper, who cut hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to arts and culture programs and to the CBC. In fact, Trudeau has promised to reverse many of those cuts.
Examining Steven Spielberg’s Fascinating Shift From Popcorn Movies To Politicized Ones
The films propelling his swift ascent – Jaws (1975), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), or E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982) – were free of anything resembling politics or ideology. But over the course of his career, Spielberg’s cinema has become increasingly self-aware and culturally engaged. His latest movie, Bridge of Spies, is a Cold War spy drama that’s interested not so much in the cloak-and-dagger espionage stuff, but rather in the moral and political issues at stake, both within its narrative and in present-day America. This is a fascinating reversal from earlier in the director’s career.”
What Does It Mean to Be a Private Intellectual?
For thirty-five years at Harvard, George Scialabba did his clerical duties, and then wrote commanding philosophical essays after work.
Unfinished Story … How The Ellipsis Arrived In English Literature
“Dr Anne Toner believes she has identified the earliest use of the ellipsis in English drama, pinning it down to a 1588 edition of the Roman dramatist Terence’s play, Andria, which had been translated into English … and in which hyphens, rather than dots, mark incomplete utterances by the play’s characters.”
Paisley – A Brief History Of The World’s Most Democratic Pattern
“A pattern of exclusive royal privilege in the East becomes the pattern of Western capitalist longing. It trickles down on humbler fabrics to working men, gay men, gang members, and Boy Scouts. It signifies free love and forbidden love, belonging and exclusion – a seemingly impossible range of human experience.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.21.15
How they made their money
And now my final post about changing the conservatory curriculum. In the post I did last, I talked about music history, or rather classical music history. And how … even when we teach classical history we leave a lot out. Namely, the real stuff of music in the past. How it lived, how it functioned, how listened, how they listened. And – very important – how musicians, including the great composers, made their living. … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2015-10-21
The Immorality of a Broken Business Model
I no longer eat beef. It was a decision inspired by listening to Meat Week on NPR’s Morning Edition in the summer of 2012. … So what does this have to do with growing audiences for arts & culture? … read more
AJBlog: Audience Wanted Published 2015-10-21
I.D.
Art serves many purposes. I want to write about two today: life-enhancement and identity. I’m not going to define life-enhancement. We all have an idea of what that can mean, for ourselves and for others … read more
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-10-21
70 Years of History Brought to Life
José Limón was choreographing right up to the end of his life. His last dances, Orfeo and Carlota, premiered in 1972, the year of his death at 64. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2015-10-21
Why is it important to have a career plan?
Our paradigms dramatically affect our judgment and our decision making by influencing our perceptions. Paradigms are sets of rules and regulations that do two things: 1.) They establish boundaries 2.) They provide rules for success … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-10-21
Clarity & Observation
Developing a career plan was natural for me, as I was fortunate to discover what I wanted to do at a very early age. Initially, I figured out the general steps … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-10-21
Picture this:
You’re interviewing for your dream job at a great company and you know you’d be perfect. You’ve practiced in the mirror, are wearing your lucky blazer, you have your nerves under control and … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-10-21
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