“From Vaslav Nijinsky to Benjamin Millepied, Anna Pavlov to Sylvie Guillem, the collection of vintage portraits gives a mostly black-and-white glimpse into over a century’s worth of ballet greats.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The History Of Digital Images Began With A Baby Picture (Because Caturday Hadn’t Been Invented Yet)
“The computer had plenty of important jobs to do, like, as Kirsch told the Oregonian later, ‘thermonuclear weapons calculations and things of this sort.’ But he was allowed to use it to solve other problems, too. And he wondered what it would mean to have a computer look at a picture.”
Arts Journalists Can Too Get Work – At The Arts Organizations They Used To Cover
“It’s an interesting balancing act, for sure, because on the one side you have all resources available to you, but you want to be doing journalistic work.”
A School Behaves Like An Orchestra, And An Orchestra Behaves Like A School
“Both initiatives underscored the extent to which the difficulties facing classical music in the 21st century are forcing venerable institutions to adapt, if not reinvent themselves.”
How Do We Revive A Language When There Are No Native Speakers Left?
“It’s hard to find information on Tongva. There are no audio recordings of people speaking the language, just a few scratchy wax cylinder recordings of Tongva songs. There are additional word lists from scholars, explorers, and others dating from 1838 to 1903.”
Bookstore MFA
“At some point, it’s just you and the poems. You haven’t been told to read a poem, you haven’t been assigned a poem to critique, you haven’t been told a book’s really great, so you’re just picking up books that either speak to you or don’t. You’re just looking through book after book after book trying to find something engaging.”
D.C. Isn’t That Exciting A Town, But The Hirshhorn Museum’s New Director Has Big Plans
“I hope this means we are able to come up with another kind of new bold vision that has the potential to be a real game-changer in terms of contemporary art and the way technology impacts contemporary art.”
Does Going On A World Tour Make A Symphony World Class?
“In Chicago Symphony lore, it was the orchestra’s first-ever overseas tour — a massive six-week, nine-country, 15-venue, 25-concert trip led by music director Georg Solti in 1971 — that vaulted it to world-class status while changing cultural perceptions of Chicago, with the orchestra greeted by a ticker-tape parade upon its return home.”
How’s Modern Dance Doing In Vietnam?
“We have a history of war, but we are not trying to promote that, but rather bring the feeling of what we have through contemporary dance, through the eyes of a young generation.”
Galway Kinnell, Poet Of Nature, Religion And Human Rights, Dead At 87
“He also wrote frequently about death. ‘The Book of Nightmares’ was inspired by the horrors of the Vietnam War. But as angry as he could be, he sometimes considered mortality more gently and wistfully.”