The organization — which used to be called the American Dance Institute until it moved from Rockville, MD into a huge former lumberyard in Catskill, NY — lets dance artists spend one or two weeks at its specialized facility holding advanced technical rehearsals before a new work’s premiere. Lumberyard director Adrienne Willis says that “there hasn’t been a single artist who didn’t say that if they didn’t have this time at Lumberyard, this piece wouldn’t have happened.” But she’s having a very hard time getting funders to agree. – Dance Magazine
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The Music Inside Us: How The Brain Hallucinates
“As a composer and researcher in cognition and music, I have been thinking about my mother’s hallucinations and what they might tell us about the nature and role of music today. Neurological research has shown that vivid musical hallucinations are more than metaphorical.” – Nautilus
Museums Reject “Dirty” Money? How About We Nationalize Them?
It would be easy to say that all money under capitalism is corrupt so what can we possibly do? Well, I do know one thing we could do. We could nationalize the art museums. – The Guardian
Elizabeth Warren Hired A Poet For Her Campaign. It Was A Very Good Idea
“In recent months, Senator Warren has become an even more effective storyteller. During a rally last month she conjured the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire in rich detail: “It was March 25, 1911; it was a Saturday. And at about 4:45 in the afternoon, people walking through this very park looked up and saw black smoke billowing into the sky.” While still professorial, Warren’s campaign speeches are increasingly verging on lyrical.” – The New York Times
National African-American Museum Is A Conflicted Proposition
“The central question that the museum presents is the degree to which a national memorial to the history and culture of a marginalized people, set in that nation’s capital and funded and supported by that nation’s federal government, can hold the nation accountable to not just its past but its present situation.” – The New Yorker
Artist Manager Jasper Parrott On Managing Artists In The Digital Age
“Finding performances online is a very impoverished view of the inspirational value of making live art. Art should be live. I know this myself because I’ve grown up throughout the whole period. I actually very seldom listen to music online or on recordings because, to me, the essence of the whole experience, the core value of creative activity, is a live experience. Therefore, the more of that you have, the more that is sustainable and the more that society believes in that whole principle, the better the society is. That’s my personal conviction.” – Van
Why The Recent Backlash Against Superhero Movies?
Maybe that’s been happening on a global level. Maybe still we need more of it. There are always arguments for and against processing reality through genre escapism and there are always “healthy” and “unhealthy” examples of it. It’s not black and white. – The Guardian
Patti LuPone Will Have You Know She’s Been Bullied
From the kindergarten kid who threw a snowball with a rock in it at her, to her father (the school principal), to Hal Prince humiliating her in front of the entire company of Evita, to John Houseman, who “literally strangled me.” But, she says in a Q&A, “I’ve been made tough by this business in order to survive, in order to continue to perform, which is what I was born to do.” (Oh, and Andrew Lloyd Webber “is the definition of sad sack.”) – The New York Times Magazine
Where Am I? MoMA’s Impermanent Displays of Its Permanent Collection
Visitors’ general state of confusion is unlikely to be dispelled unless MoMA rethinks its new installation strategy, which may satisfy curators’ desire to shake up static displays, but will vex those visitors who would prefer a better balance between aimless wandering and purposeful navigation among familiar touchstones. – Lee Rosenbaum
The twenty-five record albums that changed my life (8)
I started exploring the long-inaccessible contents of my father’s record cabinets when I was in junior high school. There I found $64,000 Jazz, a sampler released in 1955 as a promotional tie-in to the quiz show The $64,000 Question. – Terry Teachout