“The architect behind the $18m project to renovate and conserve the building as a memorial museum says it was a milestone simply for it to be open to the public during the 40 days of the show. Tangled local politics and the sensitive subject matter have left the museum without a director or governing board, and a generous research centre, offices and library have lain empty for over a year.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.09.17
Life in a Whirlwind
The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company presents a new work: A Letter to My Nephew. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2017-10-07
masculine-feminine
When I was an undergrad, I was taught the concept of masculine and feminine cadences. It went like this: masculine cadences resolve on the strong beat; feminine cadences resolve on the weak beat. I have no idea if this nomenclature is used by anyone anymore. … read more
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2017-10-09
Billy Bragg and the Rebel Power of Skiffle
Back in the mid-’80s, I was in a Calculus class when a friend I knew mostly from our shared love of punk rock handed me a hand-labelled cassette of a musician I’d never heard. … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2017-10-09
‘My Fair Lady’ Coming Back To Broadway After 25 Years, With Lauren Ambrose And ‘Downton Abbey’ Star
Lincoln Center Theater will produce the revival directed by Bartlett Sher, whose revivals of South Pacific and The King and I there were enormous successes. Unusually, the actors playing Eliza (Ambrose) and Higgins (Harry Hadden-Paton, who played Bertie Pelham on Downton) are roughly the same age. Also in the cast will be Norbert Leo Butz and Diana Rigg.
Actors Theatre Of Louisville Artistic Director Les Waters To Step Down
“Les Waters, who has served as artistic director for six seasons, will depart next summer to pursue personal projects, according to a press release sent Wednesday. … Waters has produced 78 plays and directed 18 in Louisville during his six seasons at the helm. His leadership ‘invigorated’ the Humana Festival of New American Plays, according to the release from Actors Theatre, and plays debuted at the festival were seen across the country. “
The Study Of Language History: We’ve Been Doing It Wrong, And There’s Really No Such Thing, Say Researchers
“The ‘myth’ of language history: languages do not share a single history but different components evolve along different trajectories and at different rates.A large-scale study of Pacific languages reveals that forces driving grammatical change are different to those driving lexical change. Grammar changes more rapidly and is especially influenced by contact with unrelated languages, while words are more resistant to change.”
‘Sleepers’ – Misattributed Old Masters Paintings And The Sharp-Eyed Observers Who Spot Them
For example, in 2015 a small New Jersey auction house offered for a few hundred dollars what it thought was an anonymous 19th-century painting; Bertrand Talabardon was pretty sure it was an early Rembrandt – and he was right. Nina Siegal looks at the ‘sleeper’ phenomenon and the culture around so-called “sleeper-spotters.”
Are There Any Public Memorial Sculptures That *Unite* Americans? Scholars Pick Five They Think Do
As controversy swirls around demands to remove the memorials to the Confederacy and its officers found in many US cities, it’s worth remembering that a lot of those statues “were cheap, mass-produced and exactly the kind of disgrace that [the great memorial sculptor Augustus] Saint-Gaudens condemned. With this in mind, we asked five specialists in American sculpture to select the pieces they regard as the nation’s truly great works.” (For better or worse, all five are in the Northeast Corridor.)
This Ballerina Was A Superstar In South Korea, And She Gave It All Up To Come To DC And Dance For Julie Kent
“Back home, [EunWon] Lee was the National Ballet’s youngest principal ballerina and a dance celebrity. Her performances sold out the Seoul opera house in minutes. … With her lithe form and delicate, childlike features, she modeled for Swarovski jewelry and tossed out ceremonial pitches at ballgames. But it wasn’t enough.
Arts Are $4.1 Billion Engine For Philadelphia’s Economy
A Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance report “shows a nearly 25 percent percent increase in economic impact over 2011, measured in direct spending by audiences and art organizations and estimated indirect spending. It also shows a 32 percent increase in city tax revenue, attributable to the arts sector.”
The Book Leonard Cohen Finished Just Before He Died Will Be Released Next Year
“Describing the collection, The Flame, as ‘an enormously powerful final chapter in Cohen’s storied literary career’, publisher Canongate said that the Canadian singer-songwriter had chosen and ordered the poems in the months before his death in November 2016. The overwhelming majority of the book, which will be published next October, will be new material, it added.”