“The Metropolitan Museum of Art is planning to rebuild its wing for Modern and contemporary art – possibly from scratch – to create new, showcase galleries for its expanded collection from those periods, Met officials have confirmed.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
How Editors Should Edit: A Debate (Sort Of)
Dan Kois: “Ready to explain how you CODDLE WRITERS, Laura?”
Laura Helmuth: “Hello, Kois. Have you made anybody cry today?”
‘It’s A Company’s Job To Figure Out How To Roll With Those Punches’: Anne Midgette On The San Diego Opera Saga
“If BMW announced that it was closing up shop because that there was no longer the market for luxury cars that there once was, people would laugh, and say that it served them right. … Whatever the future of opera and classical music may be, it looks like it favors the smaller, more flexible, more spontaneous, more visionary, and may look bad for the monumental and the status quo. I fail to see how that’s a bad thing.”
Cinematographer Gordon Willis, the ‘Prince Of Darkness’, Dead At 82
His work on the Godfather trilogy, The Parallax View, Klute, and Woody Allen’s films helped define the very look of 1970s American cinema.
Why There Are Ghostwriters
Jessa “Bookslut” Crispin considers the reasons that ghostwriters’ clients want to be seen as authors in the first place, why the ghostwriters themselves will do the job, and why the reading public calmly accepts the arrangements.
An Ancient Byzantine iPad?
“Turkish archaeologists excavating a harbor site on the European side of the Bosphorus have unearthed a 1,200-year-old wooden object which they claim is the ancient equivalent of a tablet computer. The device was a notebook and tool – in one.”
How Freud Infiltrated Everyday English
It goes far beyond Oedipus complex, Freudian slip, and id – to father surrogate, sublimation, libido, character trait, and beyond. (We’ll leave aside parapraxis. And don’t even start about you-know-what envy.)
YIVO Opens New Web Portal On Jewish Life In Prewar Poland
“YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, once located in Poland but now in New York, has created a portal, Polishjews.yivoarchives.org, that presents a variety of documents, videos (from film), audio clips in Yiddish , Polish, Hebrew and Russian – all described in English.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.19.14
The Deathbed Deal With Cornelius Gurlitt
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-05-18
The Forgotten Fifties: Debut of a Guest Columnist
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-05-19
Singers in uproar over critical body insults at Glyndebourne
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-05-19
Alice Coote: An open letter to opera critics
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-05-19
Pulling the Rug Out from Under the Corcoran and Disregarding William Corcoran’s Deed
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-05-19
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Musical’s Producers Stiff Cast, Crew After Selling Only £126 Worth Of Tickets
“Members of the 18-strong cast, creative team and crew of The Ultimate Show are claiming they are collectively owed about £80,000 in unpaid wages and expenses.” The tour had been expected to last up to two years – until three performances this winter sold a total of 16 seats.