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Author: ArtsJournal2
What To Do With All Of Those Old Slides? Well, Here’s What The Met Did
As any art historian from the pre-internet era would know, the Metropolitan Museum had thousands – and thousands and thousands – of slides it loaned out to teachers and professors for lectures. But the entire collection of slides was digitized, and the museum didn’t need them any longer. So, they found a new home.
Deconstructing That Last Episode Of ‘Girls’ With Lena Dunham And The Show’s Director
Few shows have earned more ink of fascination and fury during their runs. “In addition to a magnificent deployment of Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car,’ the episode (which is discussed further in this critical dialogue) offers up a glimpse of what growing up might look like for these characters.” [If you’re the kind of person who cares about Girls but didn’t have time to watch it, fair warning: The article contains many spoilers.]
Hamburg’s New Music Hall Has Featured Ultra-Relevant Music, Almost By Accident
And that’s partly because of money: “The runaway success of the Elbphilharmonie — every event this season is sold out, largely because of fascination with the architecture — gives Mr. Lieben-Seutter a rare degree of freedom. ‘The public is generally skeptical when it comes to contemporary music,’ he said. ‘But from a building like this people expect new experiences. Whenever we have played contemporary music we have had a very positive, focused public.'”
Did You Experience Peak Broadway This Weekend?
Seriously: All 40 theatres were full (the 41st is under renovation right now). How rare is this? (And what’s doing well, or less than well?)
The Racecar Driver Who Became A Ballet Dancer [VIDEO]
Sophie is one of the first transgender students to sit the Royal Academy of Dance exam.
Craft Artists Deserve Notice Too, And That’s Going To Cost The Museum Accomplishing That
Here’s some of how a $25,000 NEA grant broke down for L.A.’s Craft and Folk Museum to mount Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California: “Security for the show cost $1,200. Postcard printing and mailing cost $150. Three advertising spots on a local NPR station totaled $1,500. Lighting and painting supplies were $1,140. Insurance for the show was $1,200. The most expensive item on the list: $8,000 for labels and wall text fabrication for the exhibition. Artist fees for all commissioned work totaled only $6,000.”
The Missing Mendelssohn, And What The Story Of Fanny Tells Us About Women Composers
Fanny Mendelssohn died at the age of 41, having written 500 pieces. That’s … a lot. And more keep being discovered: “In only March of this year, it was discovered that her Easter Sonata, once credited to her brother, was actually hers, and it was played live under her name for the very first time this year.”
The Pilot At The Center Of The Broadway Show ‘Come From Away’ Has Bonded With The Cast – And Seen The Show 61 Times
That is one devoted audience member: “Using her free-flying privileges as a now-retired pilot, [Beverley Bass] has followed the musical’s developmental journey from La Jolla to Seattle to Washington to Gander to Toronto to New York, often with other female pilots in tow. Ms. Bass is both watching the show and reliving the events, clutching her husband’s hand as the emotions return.”
Gertrude Stein, Famous Teacher Of Freshman Composition
Read Gertrude Stein carefully, and tenaciously, and you’ll see how she teaches writing with every rigorous sentence. (No, she was not a famous teacher of composition, of course.) “To Gertrude Stein, the arrangement and creation of sentences and paragraphs was always paramount, no matter the origin.”