BBC What’s New? visits the Chineke! Orchestra and speaks to to two members of their youth orchestra, Betania Johnny and Didier Osindero. (video)
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The Value For Leonardo Paintings Has Soared Since The ‘Salvator Mundi’ Sale
The drawing had been in a private French collection, and before the sale of Salvator Mundi was expected to go for 11 million euros. Now? Buyers have already offered more than 15 million euros – but it could go for more at auction.
So What If There’s No Oscar For A Popular Movie?
There will be plenty of popular movies in the Oscars this year. Probably.
Juris Jurjevics, Novelist And A Founder Of Soho Press, Has Died At 75
Jurjevics, a Latvian-born refugee, published James Baldwin’s final novel for Dial Press, and in 1986 founded Soho Press with two others in order to published books that were overlooked by the larger publishing industry.
To Understand The Bewitching Dance Movement Of ‘Suspiria,’ Look To Dance History
There are, for instance, “numerous nods to [Martha Graham’s] work in Suspiria — even the floor-length dress Tilda Swinton’s character, Madame Blanc, favors in the movie.”
A Paradox: Art Has Become More Political And Anti-Racist In As White Supremacy Flexes Its Power
You only need to look at Pittsburgh’s art, and the murders of Jewish worshippers at a synagogue there, to see the contradictions. “It is the best of times and it is the worst of times. A time in which the ‘whitelash’ to multiculturalism is becoming increasingly violent. But also a period in which art and culture present a more inclusive alternative to the executive orders emerging from the White House.”
A North Carolina School Gets Freaked Out, And Then ‘Concerned Parents’ Hold A Prayer Meeting, Over Shakespeare
A theatre group was performing – with edits – a high school version of The Reduced Shakespeare Company’s “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged,” when teachers and students started texting the principal. Then the superintendent shut the play down.
The Music And Poetry Supposedly Of And For The Working Class Isn’t Actually Tuned Into What That Means
Folk music and pastoral poetry are both fantasy – there’s nothing of the actual folk or the actual pastoral about them. It might be time for “post-folk” thinking, composing, and writing.
How Is Daniel Barenboim’s Arab/Israeli Symphony Holding Together?
The orchestra formed in 1999, and it’s touring the States right now. “The brainchild of Barenboim and literary scholar Edward Said, the orchestra began as an experiment in Weimar, Germany. It was meant to be a musical bridge across one of the most pressing cultural and political divides in contemporary life that only two unlikely collaborators could devise.”
The Woolsey Fire In California Has Destroyed The Paradise Ranch, The Set Of ‘Westworld’ And Decades Of Other Shows
The “town” on the ranch was likely completely destroyed. “The ranch, which until Friday resembled a town straight out of a western, was originally developed in 1927, when Paramount Pictures purchased the lot in the old Rancho Las Virgenes and used it for various films, including The Maid of Salem (1937) and The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938). In the 1950s, Paramount sold the lot to William Hertz, who built the permanent western town that would serve many shoots and as a tourist destination.”