There are two ways to do become a stonecarver in France – travel around to different work sites, apprenticing, or get a degree (the latter is less “mythic” and somewhat more friendly to women). No matter what President Macron says about restoring Notre Dame in five years, they know they’ll be needed for decades to come. – NPR
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As The US Moved Into Germany At The End Of WWII, Residents Looted Hitler’s Looted Art Collections
The government of Germany is now – yes, many years after the 1945 looting of art in Munich – making some attempts to recover the stolen and re-stolen art. “It is belatedly reporting the 1945 thefts, painting by painting, to Interpol and to the German Federal Criminal Police Office, and is also listing them on the Art Loss Register and lostart.de, two databases of missing art.” – The New York Times
Sixty-Six Questions About That ‘CATS’ Trailer
Some samples: “2. So clearly this is a town for cats, created by cats—hence the Milk Bar. But what kind of milk are they drinking? 3. Cow milk? Do cows exist in this world? How would cats, which weigh eight to 10 pounds on average, be able to domesticate cows, which weigh—[Googles]—roughly 1,600 pounds? Or … uh … are they drinking cat milk?” – The Ringer
How Did The Mueller Report Become A Live-Theatre Sensation?
Well, there’s this: “Mueller report read-a-thons have become acts of civil disobedience, a way for artists to register their discontent by leveraging their most valuable currency: celebrity.” – Los Angeles Times
Unfinished (again) at the Met
A lone loan of Jerome for Leonardo’s 500th anniversary. – Lee Rosenbaum
The Worlds Of Mark Morris
“Morris plays delicious games with Satie’s variegated material.” – Deborah Jowitt
The Mother Of All Opera Roles
Sure, there are a lot of mothers (or, as The Guardian has it, mums) in opera, but Rosa Mamai in L’arlesiana has a command and power that’s all too rare. – The Guardian (UK)
A Fidelio For Yesterday
“All I managed to say was: ‘It’s over.’ … There will never again be a Fidelio like this.” – Joe Horowitz
Ida Wyman, Flaneuse And Photographer Of Life In The City, Has Died At 93
Wyman wandered New York & Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s “to capture compelling images of everyday people working, playing, idling, dancing or selling newspapers.” Her work for Life, Business Week, Look and other magazines “went largely unheralded for decades” but was recognized later in her life. – The New York Times
Eight Artists Withdraw From Whitney Biennial, Citing Board Member Whose Company Makes Tear Gas
One of the artists wrote to Hyperallergic, “As a mother to a 2-year-old daughter, it terrifies me that my work is currently part of a platform that is now strongly associated with Kanders’ teargas-producing company Safariland. … I have recently taken her to several demonstrations and that further heightened my awareness of the situation. I do not want her to grow up in a world where free and peaceful expression is countered with means that have left people injured and dead.” – Hyperallergic