Category: people

She was a rebel in the days of the serious art black & white photo: “Ms. Cosindas, a painter by training, turned to photography early in her career and was immediately stymied by an unwritten law: For the medium to be true to itself, images must be black and white. Color was for advertising.”

Tate made his career – which includes a large discography as well as guest appearances with almost every major orchestra on Earth – in spite of disabilities resulting from spina bifida. His served, over the years, as chief conductor of the English Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Opera House in London, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and the Hamburg Symphony.

“Now 75 and still in the thrall of a decades-long career, he discussed his bipolar disorder in detail for the first time publicly in an interview with The Associated Press. He and his wife, Leslie Chihuly, said they don’t want to omit from his legacy a large part of who he is.”

“Hackers are free people, just like artists who wake up in the morning in a good mood and start painting,” Putin said.

 

 

Holland Cotter, who loved Thoreau in his youth and then fell away, visits an exhibit at the Morgan Library and discovers that the writer was attuned to and thrilled by sound and touch and taste, a devoted family man (though unmarried himself) whom children loved, and such a committed abolitionist that his family house was a stop on the Underground Railroad.

“Although Bělohlávek,” who served as chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic (twice) and of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, “started out as a student of the cello, he became the greatest conductor of the Czech repertoire after Václav Talich and Václav Neumann.”

“For decades, Mr. Lewiston, a classically trained pianist, roamed the four corners of the earth with tape recorder in hand, seeking out Tantric Buddhist chants in Tibet, festival music in Oaxaca, Mexico, the kecak monkey chant of Bali, the panpipe music of Peru.”

While studying with Ansel Adams [circa 1960], he told her she was ‘making black and white photographs, but thinking in color’ – color photography at the time was mostly found in advertising – and recommended her to Polaroid. The corporation asked Cosindas to experiment with a new instant-developing color film, called Polacolor. By the end of the 1960s, Cosindas developed her signature painterly style.”

“The self-esteem craze changed how countless organizations were run, how an entire generation — millenials — was educated, and how that generation went on to perceive itself (quite favorably). As it turned out, the central claim underlying the trend, that there’s a causal relationship between self-esteem and various positive outcomes, was almost certainly inaccurate.”

“The dentist had the sharp end of the blade inches from my face. It was only then that he chose to tell me what he was seconds away from doing to my mouth. ‘There will be some tethering,’ he said. I froze. Tethering? “