“America is a big country. Naturally, vast swaths of its often marvelous art history have always been missing in action in New York.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
How Philip Glass Got His Education In World Music
“There were no books that would prepare me for those kinds of things. I was really on my own. Finding my way into other people’s music was a way of learning about music. And of course it had an impact on the way I compose music. It became the engine of change for me.”
Musicals Dominate Tony Nominations
“Three wildly different new musicals, ‘An American in Paris,’ ‘Fun Home’ and ‘Something Rotten!’ were showered with Tony nominations Tuesday morning, setting up one of the toughest choices for Tony voters in years.”
The Woman Who Shaped The Las Vegas Skyline
“Baron Haussmann was lucky enough to be hanging around Paris at the exact moment Napoleon III thought it could do with a refit. Christopher Wren had the good fortune to be alive at the time of Britain’s worst bakery fire. And Betty Willis happened to be working for a sign manufacturer in Las Vegas when the twin forces of modish Googie architecture and the leisure era came together to cut it a singularly brash neon destiny.”
What’s So Great About Young Writers?
“Youthful achievement is often linked to privilege. Not everyone can afford to write when young. Some are already working more than one job. Others are raising children, as I was for many years. Still others may not feel safe expressing themselves, for any number of reasons.”
Common Core Prioritizes The Arts In Standardized Test Prep
“A growing number of big cities, including New York, are increasing money for their arts programs as they roll out Common Core.”
Why Museums Need To Partner With – Not Just Consult – Native Peoples For ‘Native American’ Exhibits
“Asserting Native voice in the exhibition is represented by gigantic blow-up photographs of Native people in the exhibition, quotes, videos, interviews, representation in the gift shop, participation in the catalog, is inaccurate and disingenuous.”
Ellis Island Immigration Museum Is (Finally?) Getting An Update
Though it used to end the immigration story in 1954, “the museum will leap more than 60 years forward with the opening of two new galleries in what had once been the station’s kitchen and laundry. They pick up the narrative where it was left off.”
Six Novelists Withdraw From PEN Awards Gala Over ‘Charlie Hebdo’
Australian novelist Peter Carey: “All this is complicated by PEN’s seeming blindness to the cultural arrogance of the French nation, which does not recognize its moral obligation to a large and disempowered segment of their population.”
A Slice Of Americana: The (Extremely Sweary) Deranged Sorority Girl Email Cantata
“While waiting for things to get going, composers near my chair were debating just how Calianno would manage to set ‘cunt punt’ anyway.”