“The Rosenberg cache represents just a tiny part of what some experts say are roughly 100,000 pieces — worth perhaps $10 billion — still missing from Nazi plundering, but few victims have been as unyielding, or as successful, as this family in reconstituting their cultural legacy.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
How Edna O’Brien Came To Write ‘Country Girls’ (And Everything Else)
“There was a great suspicion on my mother’s part about writing. My mother, who was a very gifted woman, hated and mistrusted the written word. It was as if she felt it was redolent of sin.”
Selling Dance As A Business Tool (A Way For Companies To Survive?)
“Watching the dancers in action and talking with them afterward about their creative process ‘pulls our staff out of the same way we do things so that we can better design solutions and solve problems,’ he says.”
Museums, In Demolishing Great Architecture, Turn Their Backs On Cities
“The art of city-building allows for the creative human spirit. If it doesn’t, architecture flatlines, streetscapes become samescapes, and anybody interested in wonky variations in scale and urban texture hightails it to Sao Paulo or Istanbul – cities of wild design difference – instead.”
The Tony Awards Committee Rules Against Four Young Matildas
“The decision, the most newsworthy result of a busy committee meeting, sets aside a controversial precedent from 2009 when the three teenage boys sharing the lead role in ‘Billy Elliot’ were deemed eligible for a joint best actor nomination — and went on to win that June.”
Pussy Riot Member Denied Early Release
“The prison colony also listed a penalty that Tolokonnikova received for failing to say hello to a prison official while she was in the hospital and noted that she was once reprimanded for her refusal to go out for a walk while she was held in a Moscow jail.”
Why Not Bring City Opera Back Home (To City Center)?
“It felt like a homecoming to see the company on the City Center stage. The renovated City Center is now much more inviting and comfortable. And whatever they did to that theater improved the acoustics.”
Bronzes From A Palace Looted By France And Britain Will Return To China
“What might seem a rather obscure gesture of returning a pair of bronze animal heads takes on outsized significance as a kind of restitution of historical justice, a long-awaited righting of wrongs to the Chinese nation.”
Making Sweet Music From The Stench Of A Landfill
“Gómez travels three times a week to Cateura to dig out material. He shapes the metal oven trays with an electric saw to form the body of a violin and engineers cellos from oil barrels. The necks of his string instruments are sculpted from old strips of wood, called palé.”
Shaking Up The Oscars Voters With A LIttle (Just A Little) Diversity
“Change has been difficult, they have said, because the film industry is not very diverse in the first place, and slow because the academy has been limiting membership growth for the last decade.”