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Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.11.15
Arts Predispositions II: Maybes
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-02-11
Heft and excitement
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2015-02-11
A New Old Bill Evans Interview
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-02-11
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Police Seize Possible Leonardo Da Vinci Painting In Switzerland
“Negotiations to sell the oil painting of a fifteenth-century noblewoman, Isabella D’Este, for around 120 million euros ($135.9 million) were at an advanced stage,” … when the canvas was taken from the vault of a Swiss bank currently under investigation for tax fraud.
One Of Britain’s Most Admired Actors Is Giving Up The Stage Because He Can No Longer Remember His Lines
Michael Gambon: “This can’t work. You can’t be in theatre, free on the stage, shouting and screaming and running around, with someone reading you your lines.”
“Ian Bostridge Is Not A Classical Singer,” Says Anne Midgette
“Yes, he’s a tenor, and what he does is vocal performance, and it’s strikingly compelling. But classical singers produce sound in a certain way, with a certain kind of vocal support and certain accepted wisdoms about sound and line and diction. Bostridge, by contrast, comes at singing from entirely his own direction and arrives at his own unique conclusions and results.”
Dancers Will Take Over The Entire Tate Modern For Two Days
“Tate Modern is to become a museum of dance for 48 hours as 75 performers take over the gallery spaces for displays and workshops, and the Turbine Hall is transformed into a nightclub.”
Jon Stewart Was Really Our Greatest Media Critic
James Poniewozik: “So Stewart wasn’t an actual news anchor. What his show did with comedy was a kind of journalism nonetheless, using satire and some thorough research of source material to analyze the news and analyze its analysis. Any honest media critic knew that Stewart was doing the job better than the rest of us. … Do the same thing in print and you’re an op-ed columnist. Stewart and company simply managed to do it in a format that people paid attention to.”
How Ousmane Sembene Invented African Cinema
“The Senegalese filmmaker … effectively created an African film industry out of nothing: … French colonial authorities had made it illegal for Africans to make films of their own, so countries like Senegal had no film equipment, no professional actors, and no funding.”
What Makes An Artist “Subversive” In 2015?
Scott Timberg: “At a time when the term is applied to corporate pop stars like Lady Gaga and smug-plutocrat artists like Jeff Koons, subversive has come to mean close to nothing. It’s become the Marilyn Manson of critical terminology – somewhere between shock and yawn. How did we get here? … But the fact is, there are actually some people today who are genuinely subversive, and … have paid in very serious ways for their, um, subversive activities.”
Grant Strate, 87, Elder Statesman Of Canadian Dance
“Strate was a charter member of the National Ballet of Canada in 1951 and later its first resident choreographer. … In 1970, Strate went on to found York University’s department of dance, the first of its kind in Canada. Rejecting preconceived notions, he forged a vision focused on creative research and the concept of the ‘thinking dancer.'”