“We are colleagues from different areas of the Penn State campus: One of us is a professor of meteorology, and the other a professor of music technology. Since 2014, we have been working together to sonify the dynamics of tropical storms. In other words, we turn environmental data into music. By sonifying satellite videos like those often seen in weather reports, we hope that people will better understand how these extreme storms evolve.” (includes video)
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Is It Art Or Arson? It’s Both, And The Artist May Go To Prison For It
“[Russian photographer] Danila Tkachenko’s 2017 Motherland project documents the annihilation of villages, the plight of small farmers struggling to compete with big corporations, and ‘a state over-reliant on oil, which has shown no interest in developing agriculture’.”
García Márquez’s Archive Is Now Available Online – For Free
“The online archive, which is catalogued both in English and in Spanish, includes drafts and other material relating to all of García Márquez’s major books, … [as well as] previously unseen photographs, notebooks, scrapbooks, screenplays and personal ephemera, like a collection of his passports. Many archives are digitizing their holdings. But to make so much material from a writer whose work is still under copyright freely available online is unusual.”
Jesse Green And Paul Rudnick Dish Gay Theater Past, Present, And Future
“During the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, there was a rise in plays about gay life that addressed issues of identity, homophobia and the decimating AIDS epidemic. Plays like Boys in the Band, The Normal Heart and Angels in America shattered taboos and brought gay characters into the mainstream. Many of these groundbreaking plays are now returning to Broadway, but will they hold up a generation later?” (audio)
The Latest Pre-Broadway Tryout Town: Edmonton (Edmonton?)
“The road to Broadway has rarely been this cold.”
Let The Berkshire Museum Sell The Paintings: Tyler Cowen
“The board of the Berkshire Museum made a decision to just shift focus [to history, natural science, and tech], not to tear up the institution and start all over again. … The sad truth is that the people running the Berkshire Museum just don’t care that much about American art any more, at least not from an institutional point of view. Given that reality, it’s actually better if they are not entrusted with important artworks.”
If You Need A Basic Primer On The Berkshire Museum Art Sale And Lawsuit, Here It Is
The AP’s Mark Pratt offers “a look at the arguments for and against, and why the case against the Berkshire Museum has aroused such anger:”
The Much-Postponed, Much-Argued-About Nureyev Bio-Ballet Finally Premieres At The Bolshoi
“As [director Kirill] Serebrennikov himself notes in a program interview: ‘I am doing an exotic, probably nonexisting job. Perhaps I am the only ballet stage director around.’ And so the big questions: Does having a director make a difference? And is Nureyev any good? The answers are yes and somewhat.” Roslyn Sulcas reports.
Is Culture In The Americas In Big Trouble?
That was the title of a panel discussion at Art Basel Miami Beach that “included artist Jordan Casteel, Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston director Bill Arning, and writer and photographer Teju Cole. While there weren’t many concrete solutions drawn, the conversation offered a clear diagnosis of the key issues facing art and culture and, at the very least, a starting point for how we can understand and address them going forward.
Spanish Medieval Art Pieces Caught Up In Catalonia Independence Fight
“Unrest has broken out at the Lleida Museum in western Catalonia after Spanish law enforcement officers entered the institution this morning. The move is the latest development in a long-running restitution saga centred on 44 religious artefacts housed at the museum, which have become a symbol of Catalonia’s bid for independence.”