“The issues at the heart of this conversation stretch well beyond ‘The Mikado’ and highlight a movement taking place, at varying speeds, across a number of artistic media.”
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Top Posts From AJBlogs For 05.22.15
Dancing with Music
The Mark Morris Dance Group performs in its own Brooklyn space. Sam Black and the Mark Morris Dance Group in Morris’s The. Photo: Mat Hayward Music often takes Mark Morris in directions I couldn’t have… … read more
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2016-05-21
Weekend Extra: Fathead Newman’s “Hard Times”
When he was a member of the Ray Charles band in the 1950s, saxophonist David “Fathead” Newman was frequently the featured soloist on Paul Mitchell’s and George V. Johnson’s “Hard Times.” It became a musical… … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2016-05-21
Things I do not understand about the ticket-resale debate
The Guardian reports that next week Professor Michael Waterson will release a UK government commissioned report on the regulation of ticket resale. I’m glad to hear it, because it might shed some light on an… … read more
AJBlog: For What it’s WorthPublished 2016-05-21
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Musicians’ Union Files Unfair Labor Practices Charge Against Kalamazoo Symphony
“Start said the two sessions per day creates an undue hardship on many musicians because many do other work – with other musical groups or in jobs not related to music – to make their living.”
Can The UK Fix The Hellacious Secondary Concert Ticket Market?
“Some of the music industry’s leading players are demanding that ticket touting be made a criminal offence for all UK concerts, plays and sporting events.”
Paying Attention To Children As Performers
“Inspired by the theories of Janusz Korczak, a Polish educator who understood children’s need for freedom of expression, Ms. Lockhart brought in a movement therapist, a theater director, a philosopher and a curator, among others, to hold creative workshops to help the girls develop their voices. Ms. Lockhart filmed them speaking intimately about topics she knew they valued.”
She Invented Hollywood Gossip Reporting And Has Been Mostly Forgotten, But She Has No Regrets
“Over the course of her 40 years in the gossip industry, Barrett became known as a ball-buster, an indefatigable reporter, and a legitimate pioneer. Her name has faded from national consciousness, yet her innovations remain: She was Barbara Walters and Nikki Finke and TMZ all rolled into one, and she did it first.”
Have We All Been Misreading Jasper Johns, All Along?
“The commonly accepted reading of Johns’s career – that he rejected subjectivity, which we associate with Abstract Expressionism, in favor of detached objectivity – overlooks his interest in intuitive responses to life and art.” (This is Part One; read Part Two here.)
The Woman Who Runs Universal TV
“She wanted to work in entertainment — but not in front of the camera. ‘It wasn’t like I was immersed in American entertainment, but I always liked the idea of storytelling on a big scale.'”
Manhattan’s Spiraling Rents Are Killing Off One Of Its Best Art Spaces
“The closing of 38 Greene feels like the end of an era, partly because it reflects the threat posed by the gold-coasting of Manhattan to its alternative spaces — among them the excellent White Columns on West 13th Street. Now facing the ends of leases, profit-hungry landlords and the like, these spaces are seers. They have a nerve and flexibility absent from museums and commercial galleries. Their nurturing of non-mainstream artists and collectives is essential to a living art world.”
The Museum Of London Opens A New, Massive Site
“There are already more than 6m objects in the Museum of London, the largest urban history collection in the world, but its director, Sharon Ament, is acquiring a few more: a row of derelict shops, several tonnes of salt, a giant Edwardian gas burner, an entire street, and a working train line.”