Clark was hit by a car and killed on Friday, not too long after updating his blog. He was friends with the Beat Poets, wrote a biography of Jack Kerouac, and was editor of the Paris Review from 1963-1973. The publisher of his 2010 poetry collection wrote that his recent “depict nocturnal walks in Berkeley, California — not the Berkeley of a faded, nostalgic, radical past, but rather the multi-cultural Berkeley of today that circulates in the streets outside the university gates.”
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A German Gallery Cuts Ties With One Of Its Artists Over His Views On Immigration
Artist Axel Klause expressed some quite conservative views on Facebook – and his gallery of 13 years said that it couldn’t continue the relationship. One of the Leipzig gallery’s partners: “I’m not a public institution or an institution of public interest. I have a commercial gallery where I organize and sell exhibitions, and I don’t have to represent every viewpoint that exists in society.”
How One Stand-Up Comedian Copes With A Devastating Loss
Comedian Adam Cayton-Holland: “I don’t really have a joke about it. It’s more like a public service announcement that I make into the microphone, urging people to seek help, urging people to not feel ashamed of feeling powerless when it comes to their brains. You can see the audience tense up. I pepper in a few jokes here and there, to try to cut the tension. Which kind of works. It’s not perfect, but it’s real.”
The Baltimore Symphony Is Going International For The First Time In 13 Years
Principal horn player Philip Munds was with the orchestra the last time they went abroad in 2005, and he’s missed it: “It’s really good for the orchestra to play in different places. … It makes you step it up. It broadens our awareness and gets us hyper-focused.”
Bernstein at Brevard — Take Two: The Artist and Politics
The backlash against Bernstein’s politics was huge – and “his activities became an insane obsession of J. Edgar Hoover.”
In A Painful Year Of Loss, One Of The Last Great Culinary Idols Keeps On Going
Madhur Jaffrey, actor and cookbook writer, will not call herself a chef, but her cooking has changed the world. Then there’s this: “A now-famous appearance, in the ’90s, on one of Julia Child’s shows. Watching an extra-tall Julia coo and flutter, as Madhur regally goes through the instructions on making shrimp in spicy coconut sauce — as the coriander seeds hiss, and the fenugreek pop — is (thank you, YouTube!) an adventure in odd-couple gold.”
Remember The Members
The Metropolitan Museum’s new director writes a letter to members – and appears to want an exchange of ideas, so here are a few.
In A Europe Disturbed By Anti-Muslim Sentiment, This Exhibit Makes A Statement
The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, is acknowledging the way the Italian Renaissance depended on – and exchanged ideas and goods with – Muslim countries. The exhibit is a “scholarly riposte” to a world in which, “today, Italians have little exposure to the Islamic world beyond the Muslims living in their midst — many of them recent immigrants — and media reports of Mideast wars and Islamist-inspired terrorism. That tense context has led some to associate Islam with violence and spawned anti-Muslim sentiments.”
Why Don’t More Boys – And Girls, For That Matter – Read ‘Little Women’ In School?
Teaching Huck Finn is near universal, but Little Women? What if the boys don’t like it? “As far as I can tell, no one is concerned about whether 12-year-old girls are engaged by Tom Sawyer. But their reaction is not what concerns educators. It’s the boys’ responses they are worried about.”
Late-Night TV Has Several Problems, But One Is That There’s An Awful Lot Of It
And there was more of it before Netflix abruptly canceled Michelle Wolf’s and Joel McHale’s late-night format programs. What if viewers simply don’t exist for this kind of show anymore? Even “Conan O’Brien, TV’s longest-serving late-night personality, is poised to take his hour-long Conan on TBS to 30 minutes next year.”