The so-called “alt-right” didn’t go for National Review style (not in any way). Instead, “they have adopted the fetishism of transgression that marked the Cultural Studies left: they embedded themselves in subcultural styles repellent to mainstream, middlebrow liberal sensibilities and they call on their armies to attack the tastes and sensibilities embodied by n00bs and ‘normies.'”
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A Museum Plans To Sell 40 Paintings To Fund Its Renovations, But Here’s Why That’s A Bad Idea
Using artworks in the collection as fundraising sources a terrible message for potential art donors, not to mention the public. “One of the most fundamental and long-standing principles of the museum field is that a collection is held in the public trust and must not be treated as a disposable financial asset … Two of the works the Museum is currently planning to sell are important paintings by Norman Rockwell, given by the artist to the people of Pittsfield.”
Sergei Polunin Says Without Shedding Its Elitist Image, Ballet Will Die
Polunin, one of the art’s bigger (and certainly one of the more controversial) stars, thinks that dancers can be like soccer players or actors if they just have agents, and if the art can open itself up to top theatre and film directors.
Jeanne Moreau, The Face Of French New Wave Film, Has Died At 89
She starred in Louis Malle’s The Lovers and then François Truffaut’s Jules et Jim, and “went on to particularly memorable roles as Marcello Mastroianni’s lonely wife in Michelangelo Antonioni’s classic The Night (1961), a controlling servant in Luis Buñuel’s Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), a coldhearted seducer in Eva (1962) and a vengeful newly wed-newly widowed in The Bride Wore Black (1968).”
The Rand Corporation Has An Amazing Art Collection
OK, it’s a collection on long-term loan from a software entrepreneur, but “for many of the people who work at Rand, the art is more than a backdrop. It’s part of a unique culture, they say.” Apparently it helps people consider thorny problems when there’s challenging art around them.
This Orchestra Is Asking People To Outrun Beethoven’s Fifth In A 5K
Well, that’s a new one: At its next free outdoor concert, the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra is offering “a 5K run and boot camp workout for those so inclined and a delightful outdoor evening concert of popular classics for the rest of us.”
Germany’s Most Embarrassing Musical Export
It might not even be an export. It might only be possible within Germany: “Of the current top five albums on the German charts, two are schlager records. To put it into perspective, that would be like if the number three and four albums on the US Billboard Hot 100 were Christian rock about cats.”
Trump Administration Policies May Threaten Land Around Michael Heizer’s ‘City’
Argh: Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior, said, “I don’t think there’s too much question that a monument can be adjusted. Whether a monument can be rescinded or not, that is a question for the courts.”
The Surprising Ways ‘Dunkirk’ Reimagines History
Christopher Nolan’s film leaves out the enemy, for one thing. And then there’s Winston Churchill – or rather, there is no Winston Churchill in Dunkirk.
Howards End Was Fictional, But You Can Go See It Anyway
And you can visit Pemberley and Manderley, and you can visit and revist Brideshead should you so desire. (Why does British literature depend so very much on houses?)