Open a book about Brahms and get a lot more Clara than you bargained for: “Like many celebrity power couples, the woman is often more notable than the man. For a long time, it was easy to overlook Clara Schumann; Robert was the composer of them, really, and she was just the performer. But that’s wrong! It’s extremely wrong! She composed too! She performed all the time!”
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What Could Possibly Explain Last Week’s Oscars Flub?
Disaster science, in which lots of little, seemingly inconsequential things add up to large problems. For instance, at the Oscars, “having senior executives taking such a front-line role can be a recipe for trouble – they’re more likely to assume they’re going to do it right. Many accidents have been triggered by very experienced workers who grew overconfident and complacent — wilderness firefighters, for example, are most likely to be killed or injured in their 10th year on the job.”
In Defense Of Cultural Criticism Even During The Trump Presidency
“It’s hard to defend doing anything except being in the streets” right now, but the space where the arts lie “is not an apolitical place, it is just not owned by government. In this aesthetic space, the arts explore a less confined politics than the one that controls the state. The state is not the beginning, end, or the reason for this space.”
Inspiration For A Young Violinist
Francesca Dego, in a Q&A, asked about her musical guilty pleasures: “My guilty pleasures are usually not musical! Does not practising count? I’ve gone on holiday a couple of times without my violin and although I try to convince myself that bringing it would have been useless, because sunbathing and practising don’t coexist well, guilt usually strikes after a couple of days.”
Moonlight Writer/Director Barry Jenkins And Original Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney Accepted The Best Adapted Screenplay Award Together
“‘I told my students, ‘Be in love with the process, not the result,’ ‘ Jenkins said — but admitted he did like the result.”
In The UK, Waterstones Opens ‘Unbranded’ Small Bookstores To Some Backlash
Did the large chain do it to avoid the backlash against national chains on high streets? Of course not, says the managing director. It’s because the small shops are independent. (Except for being owned by Waterstones.)
A Shoving Match, Possibly Involving A Neo-Nazi, Broke Out At The Minneapolis Institute Of Art This Weekend
Three people, at least one of whom who appeared to have a white nationalist symbol on his jacket, argued with a group that had been protesting the president’s executive orders on immigrants – and the fight went all the way to the third floor of the museum, where, amid the 18th century European art, guards had to subdue the fighters.
Just In Case You Missed A Few Of The Award Winners In The Theatre, Here’s Your Catch-Up List
The New York Times debuts a new movie recommendation service (will this be an app someday soon?) with legal, aboveboard ways to catch up on the Oscar winners from the comfort of the couch.
The Sculptor Camille Claudel May Finally Be Getting The Recognition She Longed For
After an apprenticeship, and a relationship, with Rodin, Claudel’s art was overshadowed by his. She was committed to a mental institution by her family – but film lovers know this from not one but two films about her. Now, she’s getting her own museum, and the work speaks for itself.
There Was A Time When ‘Casablanca’ Was An Object Of Art-House Worship, But That Time Is (Finally?) Ending
The movie, which used to be a cultural touchstone so potent that it made audiences understand that characters like Harry and Sally were perfect for each other, has fallen off in recent years. Is it because Americans don’t feel the shadow of WWII anymore?