The Notch Theatre Company’s model of talking about public lands includes plays that are generated from a lot – a lot – of community meetings and input. “The plays also act as an indelible record of the largest loss to public lands our country has ever seen. They document a community’s unique history and culture at a particularly urgent moment in that community’s journey. Because they are based on true stories, the plays are marked by an authenticity of character and voice, and a sometimes-disarming honesty.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
New Research Says Caravaggio Didn’t Die Of Syphilis But Of Sepsis
A lot of docents are going to have to revamp their faintly salacious Baroque art tours – but only slightly, because the researchers found, through analysis of Caravaggio’s teeth, that the sepsis set in from an infected sword wound.
When Two Polymaths Team Up, Photography Becomes Music
Teju Cole is a novelist, essayist, photographer and photography critic – so naturally he’d team up with composer and jazz pianist (and trained physicist) Vijay Iyer. Cole: “It’s a high-wire act. .. It doesn’t have a set text.”
Van Gogh goes to the mall
As part of a Wall Street Journal column, Terry Teachout considers what it means to have 3D reproductions of Van Gogh paintings in the mall.
Kenya Temporarily Lifts Ban On ‘Rafiki’ To Make It Eligible For The Oscars
But that’s only because a judge overruled the country’s film board, which had said that the film – about a lesbian romance – “was an attempt to ‘legitimize lesbianism’ in the East African nation, where homosexuality is illegal.” The ban is lifted for one week only, which will make the film eligible for the Academy Awards.
Rachmaninoff Uncorked — Take Two: RCA, Ormandy, and the Cork
Can we ever hear the real Rachmaninoff?
This Artist Gets His Ideas – And His Style – From Bugs [VIDEO]
Artist Steven Kutcher, who paints various bugs’ (and tarantulas’) feet and then creates larger paintings based on the trails: “My favorite artists are the good ones. They created new languages.”
Museum Musical Chairs (again): Frick to Sublease Building That the Met Leases from Whitney
Wait, what? Yes: “The Met hopes to decamp from the Whitney Museum’s former flagship building in 2020. The Frick would become the new temporary tenant to 2023.”
When Your Bookstore Has A Tough Time, Why Not Combine Forces With The Butcher Shop And The Bakery?
In this town of 8,500 people in Germany, both bakeries closed, and the bookshop was having a hard time – so it was time for a combination of Brötchen and Bücher. (The Wurst came a little later.)
Agnès Varda Is Like Yes, I’m 90, But I’m Not Dead Yet, So Stop Being All Reverential
Indeed, the French New Wave filmmaker is still a sort of “punk monk” despite failing eyesight and difficulty walking. Varda says not to patronize her: “I am still alive, I am still curious. I should not be treated like an old piece of rotting flesh!”