“Writing is a dance that involves imitation, inspiration, and originality. But all things considered, writerly disapproval of plagiarism has remained remarkably consistent over the centuries—really, even over millennia.”
Tag: 01.07.13
Food As Art (In Its Many Forms)
“If food production can be art, why don’t we also consider the cooking of food as art? Combining and transforming materials is a fundamentally creative activity, whether those materials are paints, clays, musical notes or edible ingredients.”
How Self-Help Books Have Overrun Publishing
“Whatever you thought of self-help–godsend, guilty pleasure, snake oil–the genre was safely contained on one eclectic bookstore shelf. Today, every section of the store (or web page) overflows with instructions, anecdotes, and homilies.”
Latvia, A Nation Of Singers
Composer Gabriel Jackson: “And singing is what Latvians do. I don’t know what percentage of the population is in a choir but it must be pretty high; it’s certainly taken very seriously and every Latvian I know can sing, and does. … But it’s not just the ubiquity of singing and the skill of its practitioners that’s impressive, it’s the sheer sound of Latvian choirs that is so remarkable.”
Why Is Art So Obsessed With Money?
“The collapse of Damien Hirst’s career is not a sign of the end of money in art, of course. Money and art will always be intertwined. But Hirst’s breakup with Gagosian does signify the end of a kind of obsession that saw nothing other than money.”
How Can Visual And Theatre People Get (It) Together in DC?
“Artisphere is a beautiful building filled with all sorts of exciting rooms: galleries, ballrooms, black box theatre, classrooms, and space for artists and audiences to intertwine. On their website they describe the space as ‘designed for people and art to collide.'”
Solti @ 100 – Was The Great Conductor Under-Appreciated?
“Solti wasn’t anybody’s idea of a glamorous conductor. Though he was a handsome man with a high-wattage smile, his conducting technique was utilitarian.”
When Charles Addams Illustrated Mother Goose
Published in 1967, “The Charles Addams Mother Goose … is exactly as darkly delightful as you’d expect it to be, bringing the time-honored characters to wicked new life.”
Poetry Foundation Says Goodbye To Leader (In Verse)
Christian Wiman
Is off to Yale
After a decade
At Poetry
Riccardo Muti Out Of Commission Again At Chicago Symphony
“In a development reminiscent of previous health problems … the Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director has come down with a case of the flu that has forced him to withdraw from this week’s CSO subscription concerts.” Muti and the CSO are scheduled to begin an Asian tour at the end of this month.