“The near-lifesize figures on the wall at the Red House, now buried in south-east London suburbia at Bexleyheath, are now believed to represent the joint work of Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, his wife Elizabeth Siddal, Ford Madox Brown and Morris.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
An Author’s Deeply Personal Touch, And Her 170 Million Books In Print
The fans “refer to Macomber by her first name. They know her husband Wayne and her underwear-stealing dog Bogie, and her children and grandchildren. Macomber loves them right back.”
When One Country Drops A Traditional Dance, Can Another Just Pick It Up?
The dance is mostly forgotten in Cuba, but “growing numbers of children and young Mexicans flock to festivals and join classes to learn the elegant steps and dress up in the flamboyant costumes of danzón.”
An Attempt To Gentrify Without Pushing Out The Neighborhood’s People
“All over this city, people create these completely artificial spaces and call them communities, but we’ve had that here for the last 100 years.”
Could Joyce Kilmer’s ‘Trees’ Poem Please Just Die In A Fire?
But “Trees” isn’t even the worst of it. “Most of [Kilmer’s] efforts fairly drip with piety, even when the subject is as mundane as New Jersey mass transit.”
Could Western Theatre Ever Fairly Take On The Turmoil In Egypt?
“We are intellectually stuck: our familiar political narratives about the conjunction of liberalism and democracy do not seem to work when it comes to Egypt.”
Yes, Yes, Dance Boot Camp Can (Maybe?) Turn Troubled Teens’ Lives Around
“School dropouts and petty — and not so petty — criminals, they have been, as one youth worker put it, ‘sentenced to dance.'”
Composers: Give Us Our Own Data, U.S. Government!
“It is troubling that our form of artistic creativity–creating musical works–is not seen as an occupation that stands on its own. There is a vast difference between being a music director or conductor and being a composer.”
Sorry, We Know It’s Overkill, But Here’s One More Story On Jeff Bezos
We just can’t look away from this guy who took away free aspirin from his employees and has, um, had an impact on bookstores and now owns the Washington Post.
The Shipping Containers In New Jersey That Hold The History Of The Met
“If you were to put this stuff in a regular warehouse, you’d need over a million square feet.”