“The photo contradicts a misperception that Dickinson never left her house, when in fact she was quite social in her younger years, Kelly said. It also offers a strikingly different image from the existing photo of Dickinson as a frail, teen girl, which was taken before she began writing poetry. The newer image was taken when she was roughly 30.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
L.A. MOCA Cancels Fall Fundraising Gala
After a summer of controversy, board resignations, and an attempt to recreate unity among remaining board members, MOCA has canceled its usual fall gala (but may reschedule it at some point).
Creating The Digital Environment For A New (TV-Friendly) DIckens
Novels in the new Kindle Serials arena aren’t just cliffhanger-heavy e-books: “Authors will be able to interact with audiences as they write. They’ll read the reaction to their first segment while they’re writing their ending. They can use reactions to season one while they’re starting season two.”
To Avoid Art Book Brain, Pick Up Some Fiction Now & Then
Curator Dina Dietsch: “I discovered reading seriously because of the Calvin Tomkins biography of Marcel Duchamp, a completely seductive read, which also sealed my career fate. I was deciding between being a veterinarian and art history.”
Just Another Day In 1955, When Glenn Gould Was Changing Everything
“Outtakes from these sessions … suggest that in 1955 he used the studio in the opposite way: to maximize risk-taking, to push each of the short pieces that make up Bach’s ‘Goldberg’ Variations to its furthest physical, musical, spiritual extreme.”
Sock Puppet Problems? Toss The Perpetrator In Jail
Or so pleads one mystery author, whose work was trashed by another author using various fake names to slam others’ books and bloviate about his own work.
Under 40? You’re A ‘Post-9/11’ Artist (Even If You Don’t Mean To Be)
A show at the Smithsonian asks a bigger question about the generation that came of age just after the 9/11 attacks.
Reflections, Memories, John Cage at 100
“Try not to repeat the things you already know about. Ignore your talents. Follow your most impish curiosity. Dwell on an unpleasant memory. Grind the coffee beans. Sort the pile of neglected mail. Make a cup of perfect espresso. Write.”
San Francisco Loses Some Of Its Funny, And History, As The Purple Onion Closes
“The famed 60-year-old nightclub that began as an influential Beat-era music venue and became a defining voice in the city’s comedy scene is closing.”
At Telluride, Sarah Polley’s Family Memoir Wins Big (Unofficially, That Is)
“By the time things wrapped up Monday night, the biggest grumbling from passholders – other than how impossibly long the lines were this year – was that they hadn’t heard the good buzz about [Polley’s] Stories We Tell in time to catch the sleeper hit of the festival.”