Eighty years on, the Bauhaus legacy still reverberates. – Sunday Times (UK)
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SPIRIT OF COOPERATION
Los Angeles’ museums are learning that collegiality and cooperation benefits them all when planning new exhibitions. A new wave of sharing erupts. – Los Angeles Times
SUBSTITUTE TEACHER
As music education has been hacked from school curricula, arts groups have taken on the chore of teaching. But is it really a good substitute? – Orange County Register
CHINESE OPERA
Surprise – Western opera has found big success in China. The new middle classes love it and the President is a fan. – London Telegraph
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
“One could dismiss the term “sound art” as just a vaguely glorified name for weird music. And yet “sound art” has served as a useful historical euphemism, a safe harbor for works too outré for the ever-conservative classical music world.” Kyle Gann explains. – New York Times
DALI AMONG HIS BELOVED TOURISTS
Not. Ironic in a Salvador Dali kind of way that the artist who hated tourists has a museum of his work in a place luring tourists. – Washington Post
OF GODS AND MONSTERS
Pierre Boulez – champion of contemporary music and renowned conductor. A hard-liner on matters musical, in person he’s one of the nicest guys in music. A sitdown chat. – Sunday Times
MEGA-THEATER MOGUL
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who made his name with a string of hit West End musicals, is buying the Stoll Moss group, which owns ten of London’s best-known theaters, including the London Palladium, the Garrick, and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in an £85 million deal. – BBC
FIRED UP
How come when there’s a parting of the ways among leadership of a cultural organization, everyone wants to pretend nothing happened? “If you’re looking for elitism in the arts, you’ll find it in the way arts organizations want to be perceived as a vital part of our everyday lives yet want to maintain the illusion that they’re something separate from it: separate from politics, from money, from ego, from debate, from change. If they think they can do that forever, they’re kidding themselves – and us.” – Boston Herald
WHAT IS LEFT UNSAID is often sweetest.
That is the power of dance. Dance is undergoing a revival on Broadway and all-dance shows are thriving. – New York Times