“Fragmented Exhibition Spaces”: Guggenheim Picks Architects for Helsinki
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-06-23
Entry from an unkept diary
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-06-23
Lookback: on discovering the joys of shuffle play
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-06-23
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Author: Matthew Westphal
The New Cardiff Singer Of The World Is –
– a 32-year-old soprano from Belarus. The Audience Prize went to a 29-year-old Mongolian. Obscure? Not for long.
Oscar-Winning Composer Killed In Plane Crash
James Horner wrote the scores for a host of successful movies, among them Titanic, Braveheart, Field of Dreams, Aliens, Apollo 13, Avatar, and Star Trek II and III.
Memoir Of A Teenage Serial Killer (A Real One) Has Japan In An Uproar
“Brushing aside mounting criticism, a Tokyo publisher has defended its decision to release a controversial autobiography penned by a former teenage serial killer, billing it as helpful to elucidate – and even deter – heinous juvenile crimes in society. Since the release of the autobiography last week, Ota Publishing Co. has faced a ‘massive’ backlash from the public, the company admitted in a statement.”
The Decline Of The American Leading Man?
Terrence Rafferty: “The phenomenon may have reached its unignorable peak in last year’s docudrama Selma: the parts of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Governor George Wallace, and President Lyndon B. Johnson were all played by Brits. … Crisis or not, this is getting embarrassing.”
North Carolina Teacher Resigns Over Gay-Themed Fable Read To Third-Graders
“Currie had said he would resign because he felt administrators did not support him after he read King & King, in which two princes fall in love and get married. He has said he read the book after a boy in his class was called gay in a derogatory way and told he was acting like a girl.”
Can An Algorithm Really Tell Us If A Play Is Authentic Shakespeare?
The case of Double Falsehood and the search for “function words.”
The Last Living Bohemian At The Chelsea Hotel Tells All
“Paramount among them is Gerald Busby, composer, pianist, author of one of the great modern dance scores (Paul Taylor’s Runes), H.I.V. survivor, and also, at one time, as he confides openly, a crack addict. In his tiny studio apartment, complete with piano, at the hotel … on a good morning you can still find him holding forth on art, life, music, Robert Altman, Virgil Thomson, the crack epidemic, and the many uses of hotel (and human) adversity.”
If The Internet Was Once An Egalitarian Utopia, Have Corporations Paved Paradise?
“In the early days of the web, much more of what we encountered was home-made by people who shared those values and that vision. … But then Facebook happened. … Blogs were ours. Facebook is not ours.” Nevertheless, argues David Weinberger, if they’ve turned paradise into a parking lot, there’s still a lot of grass growing through the pavement.
The Marvelous Manhole Covers Of Minneapolis
“Most visitors to new cities don’t come home raving about the location’s manhole covers, but the city of Minneapolis has made its underfoot sewer covers a point of artistic pride, with designs that celebrate the area’s art, history, and wildlife.”