“Prior to the landmarks law there was no legal means for protecting historic sites like the Roxy. Many had fallen into disrepair. … It took the destruction of many beloved places before the law gained the political support it needed.
Author: ArtsJournal2
Is Rock, With Its Simple Chords And Overriding Beat, The Sound Of Mass Complacency?
“So powerful was the rock beat that all other attributes of the music were presented as secondary, or totally inconsequential. ‘ “Positive” lyrics are mostly a sop to minds that do not want to know what they are thinking,’ he wrote.”
A National Memorial Should Not Be Designed To Please One Family
“Critics in Congress insist that there will be no monument built without final approval by the Eisenhower family. For Congress to yield such power to family members, however, cuts against the whole idea of a national consensus to honor a national hero.”
The Avant-Garde Opera Director Who Has To Dodge The Paparazzi
Sophie Hunter, an opera director and actor who happens to be married to Benedict Cumberbatch, “sees no real distinction between her niche work in opera and the kind of commercial success that her husband enjoys in films such as The Imitation Game or in next month’s production of Hamlet at the Barbican, for which all but ‘on the day’ tickets sold out quickly. ‘My job now is to make work, to tell stories,’ Hunter said.”
Move-In Day At The Broad Art Museum Is Taking Months
“About half of the Broad’s 2,000 artworks have made their way from warehouses around the city, where they had been stored by museum founders Eli and Edythe Broad. Now all this postwar and contemporary art, by some of the most recognizable names of the last 40 years, is heading to a single place for the first time. An inaugural exhibition will consist of 200 pieces, and the remainder of the collection will be stored in a museum vault that was constructed so that visitors can peer inside.”
Why Childhood Memories Disappear
“For the memory to remain accessible, my younger self had to remember those concepts in the same language-based way that my adult self remembers information. I formed earlier memories using more rudimentary, pre-verbal means, and that made those memories unreachable as the acquisition of language reshaped how my mind works, as it does for everyone.”
Studio Museum Of Harlem Unveils Plans To Expand
“No more droning air-conditioners in the galleries. Or children sitting on the floor for educational programs. Or total shutdowns of the museum three times a year because the current process of changing exhibitions is so disruptive to its operations.”
Surviving As An Artist Means Diversifying Your Art
“Here’s the old artist model: Sit in your studio and make paintings or sculptures and wait to be discovered. Jennie Jieun Lee represents the new artist model: designing clothing and accessories for Rachel Corney, vases and tableware sold at several New York stores, and creating fine art for shows at Martos Gallery downtown and galleries around the world this year.”
Why Isn’t There A Lot More Booing At The Theatre? [VIDEO]
“It’s not as if actors can only work in respectful silence.”
The Most Quintessential American Fiction, According To The Rest Of The World
A Japanese translator and editor: “Moby-Dick, Herman Melville; The American hunger to comprehend all, and the impossibility of it, permeated half by cheerful melancholy and half by demonic rage.”