If Paul Newman can’t make an architect into a hero, who can?
Author: ArtsJournal2
Howard Roark, And Beyond: The 10 Best Fictional Architects
If Paul Newman can’t make an architect into a hero, who can?
Norman Rockwell’s Models, Back Together Again
“Twenty or so people who were children when they posed in the 1940s and ’50s for their neighbor Norman Rockwell in the Vermont town of Arlington are reuniting there to share their memories of the great American artist who once lived in their midst.”
Hiring New (And Younger) Blood To Teach Ballet
School of Ballet Artistic Director Peter Martins: “When people decide to teach when they retire, it’s too late. … You have to keep constantly finding people who will be the teachers for the future.”
Cambodia Seeks Return Of Second Statue
“The Cambodian government has asked the United States to help it recover a 10th-century Khmer sandstone statue from the Norton Simon Museum in California. It says the work was looted from a Cambodian temple complex during the country’s political upheavals in the 1970s.”
Popular Street Artist JR Gets A Big American Canvas In D.C.
“JR rarely works in America — he’s completed murals at the High Line in New York, and in Los Angeles, but usually works throughout Europe, Asia and South America. It will be his first project in Washington. He’ll be featuring a photograph by Civil Rights movement photographer Ernest Withers, of the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike of 1968.”
Crowdsourcing Funds For A New Museum? No Problem
The Kickstarter-like Indiegogo leaps into the spotlights as fans use it to raise $1.3 million for a museum honoring NIkola Tesla.
Our Language, Right And/Or Wrong
Can a native speaker ever make an actual error? Were Strunk & White too oppressive (while flouting their own rules)? Does anyone beyond your 8th-grade English teacher care about the word “enervate”?
It’s Banned Books Week – And In Tucson, That Means Something
Tuscon school officials last year claimed that they simply removed books from classrooms temporarily – but make no mistake, says author Jeff Biggers, those books are still banned.
Did (Great) TV Kill The Cinema?
“There’s no point in pretending that movies play the same dominant role in our culture that they once did or that art-house movies of the sort the New York Film Festival so lovingly curates have any impact at all on the American cultural mainstream.”