“This enormous carpet of glowing colour is some of the oldest and most extensive stained glass in Europe – and so in the world. It was an appalling moment when we discovered that they would all have to be taken down, but it has given us an extraordinary opportunity to look at these figures in such detail – they will never be seen like this again.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
A Leap In Theft Of Rare Books Leads To A Rise In Book Security Forces
“The losses include volumes created hundreds of years ago, some mutilated by having single sheets brutally removed with scalpels. Tens of thousands of historic books and manuscripts are thought to be missing, according to a leading art lawyer, Chris Marinello, head of London-based company Art Recovery International.”
How One Los Angeles 99-Seat Theatre Might (Or Might Not) Adjust To New Equity Minimum Wage Standards
“When people are trying to save money, if you don’t force them out of that situation they’re going to choose free actors every time.”
Silicon Valley Remakes Its Dream Of Life Without Politics
“Building a government, it turns out, is a more complex challenge than much of Silicon Valley would have you believe. Now, Thiel and other high-profile Silicon Valley investors are carefully taking stock of the anti-government view they helped popularize.”
Inheriting A Kindle Library And Realizing The Value Of Print
“While my younger sister was going through our mother’s personal belongings, she came across something she thought I might like. ‘Do you want mum’s Kindle?’ she asked via text message. I stared at the message and thought about the irony of the endless debates I had with my mother. Now that she was gone, all I cared about were her physical books.”
So The Minnesota Orchestra Tour Of Cuba Is Selling Out And Earning Rave Reviews
“The tour was designed not only to highlight the thaw between the nations, but also the thaw within the orchestra: It resumed playing together only last year after a bitter labor dispute led to a lockout that silenced it for 16 months. Now the orchestra is working to recapture what was lost.”
A Very Small Sampling Of Older (Women) Artists We Should Have Known About All Along
Faith Ringgold: “‘If you live long enough and you persist, you are going to get recognition,’ Ringgold says today. ‘You have to stay in the game.’ Ringgold has not only stayed in the game, she recently designed one of her own, called ‘Quiltuduko,’ for mobile devices. Inspired by Sudoku, the number game, it uses quilt designs instead of numbers.”
Columbia Scoops Up Archives From (The Very Alive) Founder Of Dance Theater Of Harlem
“In sorting through his material, Mr. Mitchell said, he realized that his message had been constant. ‘We were all on a mission to prove that blacks could do classical ballet,’ he said. ‘It really was a way of doing and being.'”
Should Air Strikes Defend World Heritage Sites From ISIS?
“Palmyra is an ancient Roman site whose significance and value is exceeded by very few others: those in Rome itself, Pompeii, possibly Petra in Jordan. Its temples, colonnades and tombs, its theatre and streets are extensive, exquisite, distinctive, rich. The loss of Palmyra would be a cultural atrocity greater than the destruction of the Buddhas in Bamiyan. It is hard to think of deliberate vandalism to equal it, despite the grim examples offered by the last hundred years.”
Peter Pan Is Now An Opera, Which Is Fitting Because The Story Behind Pan Is Pretty Damn Tragic
Peter “is always seeking selfish pleasure, forgets people and events and has no empathy for others. Barrie refers to him many times as happy, innocent and heartless.”