Walter Liedtke, Consummate Curator of Dutch and Flemish Painting, Dies in a Train Crash
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-02-04
Arts Predispositions I: Yeses
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-02-04
Happy Returns: Relinquished Hellenistic Silver Back on Display at Metropolitan Museum
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-02-04
The Bill Evans Legacy
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-02-04
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“But nothing could prepare the audience for set at New York City’s Town Hall last November, where [Tig Notaro] stunned attendees by removing her shirt and performing the rest of her set topless. … We asked her how she came up with the idea, how it felt to perform without a shirt on, and whether the venue had any idea what was coming.” (video)
“President Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal 2016 calls for slight increases in federal funding for cultural institutions, including the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. But the proposed increases wouldn’t come close to reversing the cuts experienced by those groups during the previous five years.”
Sadler’s Wells in London “has started to build a programme of commissioned work for children and family audiences that runs throughout the year and not just at Christmas.”
“Faber will release Kundera’s The Festival of Insignificance, translated from the original French by Linda Asher, on 18 June. The short work was first published in Italy in 2013, and has since topped charts in Italy, Spain and France. … The US edition will be released by HarperCollins on 23 June.”
“The Huntington Library in California has acquired 52 unpublished letters, poems and other material from six generations of the Leigh family. Austen’s mother was Cassandra Leigh, and the novelist visited her Leigh family in Adlestrop several times, with some believing that the setting of Mansfield Park is partly drawn from the Gloucestershire village.”
“[The agreement comes] less than two years after a strike that led to the cancellation of several local concerts and a high-profile East Coast tour.” Said the chair of the musicians’ committee of that strike, “I think everybody was a little unnerved by what happened,” which made these negotiations smoother.
“A late Cézanne view of Mont Sainte-Victoire, a Manet still life of fruit, a landscape and a cityscape by Pissarro, and a portrait of a young girl by Berthe Morisot – all [are from] a bequest from longtime museum supporter Helen Tyson Madeira, who died last year.”
He died Friday morning. “By the afternoon, newspapers in Latin America and Spain teemed with tributes. In his native Santiago, hundreds gathered for his funeral on Saturday, and celebrities and politicians competed to offer the most extravagant praise. … This is a surreal end for a writer who called himself a ‘queen’ (una loca) and ‘a poor old faggot’ (un marica pobre y viejo).”
The general manager of the network, called Al-Arab and based in Bahrain, said before launch, “We are going to be neutral; we are not going to take sides. We are going to bring in all sides in any conflict because right now we have a conflict in almost every Arab country.” And they did …
