“”You don’t need a PhD to understand my pieces,” Jennifer Higdon says. “I work hard on making sure they communicate to everybody.”
Tag: 03.25.12
Watching Mad Men, And Getting Pretty Damn Angry
For some women who lived through the era of sexism and service to men depicted on the hit show, no amount of style – and no number of Manhattans – can be enough to make up for having to think about that time period.
Will A Final Effort Save Britain’s Wedgwood Collection?
“Unesco listed the entire Wedgwood archive as one of Britain’s top 20 cultural assets in 2011. It has condemned the threatened break-up of the collection. Prominent Royal Academicians, including artists such as Christopher Le Brun and Tracey Emin, have urged the Government to intervene.” And so it may.
Euro Crisis Harming European – And U.S. – Culture
Sure, austerity hurts arts groups in Europe, but what about the U.S.? “For Americans used to seeing the best and most adventuresome European culture on tour in this country, the belt-tightening is beginning to affect both the quantity and quality of arts exchanges.”
Dance Hall Days And Big Band Nights
Once upon a time, “virtually every neighborhood had a dance hall, and white-tablecloth restaurants had dance floors. Collectively, they constituted a network of big-band music invisibly stitched together by the magic of radio, which was coming into its own.”
Perfect (Fake) Hair Means Better Actors … Or So Our Eyes Believe
Actors wear a lot of wigs, not to mention extensions: “Bailey estimates that 75 percent of all women on TV, more in film, wear hairpieces. If you’re distressed that your hair seems far more limp and sparse than the people on screen, rest assured: it isn’t.”