“Hassan Blasim calculates that after several decades of dictatorship, economic sanctions and war, Iraqis have around 150 million horror stories to tell.”
Tag: 02.03.14
4,600-Year-Old Step Pyramid Discovered in Egypt
No one yet knows what it was used for, but archaeologists are sure that it’s older than the great pyramids at Giza.
Joan Mondale, Vice President’s Wife and Arts Champion, Dead at 83
“In Washington and around the country, Mrs. Mondale became known as a tireless advocate for the cultivation of the arts. … She traveled around the country attending museum exhibitions, dedicating new works of art and otherwise directing national attention on artists, noted or undiscovered, whom she admired.”
Riccardo Muti to Stay With Chicago Symphony Until 2020
“Muti has honed these winter season announcements into a sort of high-wire performance art. It is something he clearly enjoys and always proves entertaining for the assembled press, if nerve-wracking for CSO staff who never know what the irrepressible maestro is going to say next.”
Conductor Gerd Albrecht, 78
He led orchestras in Denmark and Japan as well as in a number of German cities, and he spent a notable decade as music director of the Hamburg State Opera. Most famously, perhaps, he served a brief and stormy tenure as the first foreign chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic.
Plus-Size Women Dance Real Ballet On UK Reality Show
On Channel Four’s Big Ballet, former Royal Ballet soloist Wayne Sleep and Ballet Ireland founder Monica Loughman train a newly-assembled company of larger women (many of whom studied dance seriously) for a new staging of Swan Lake.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.03.14
Reporting, the Digital Age, and the Disappearing Middle Class
Source: CultureCrash | Published on 2014-02-03
More On Damage To Egypt’s Heritage
Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2014-02-03
Curator Barry Bergdoll Explains MoMA’s “Frank Lloyd Wright and the City”
Source: CultureGrrl | Published on 2014-02-03
Seahawks Sweat-Soda (a Partial Repost)
Source: Out There | Published on 2014-02-03
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As We Have Access To All Our Artistic History, Lines Between Past And Present Dissolve
“Suddenly we find ourselves living in an online realm where the old is just as easy to consume as the new. We’re approaching an odd sort of asymptote, as our past gets closer and closer to the present and the line separating our now from our then dissolves.”
Art Stolen By Nazis Goes To Auction (And Here Are The Issues)
“Both Sotheby’s and Christie’s now frequently coordinate with buyers, sellers, restitution lawyers and private art-loss databases to broker deals on art they discover was looted by the Nazis.”
Do The Oscars Have Any Morality?
“Together, the two controversies are this year’s contribution to an emerging insistence by many who watch the Oscar process, and some who participate in it, that Academy members should take into account moral, ethical and social factors when marking a ballot or enforcing the rules.”