“The Virginia B. Toulmin Fellowship for Women Choreographers, to be offered to three candidates over a three-year period, will provide fellows a stipend of $35,000, along with office and studio space, access to housing in New York and close contact with other artists and scholars.”
Tag: 04.27.15
West Coast Art Critic: The New Whitney Shows How Parochial New York Really Is
“America is a big country. Naturally, vast swaths of its often marvelous art history have always been missing in action in New York.”
Nepali Architectural Treasures Destroyed In Earthquake
Some of the country’s most important – and beloved – buildings sustained terrible damage (and a few were relatively lucky under the circumstances). Here are some of the badly-affected sites, with before and after photos.
Sitting In On UPenn’s Notorious ‘Wasting Time On The Internet’ Seminar
“There’s something wonderful about this dogged insistence on having nothing whatsoever to show for your time in class, especially given the cultural rage for productivity. … But: With the approval of the UPenn English Department, Goldsmith’s crafted a creative writing course that fails to generate any writing, one that to some extent paints basic college benefits like insight, growth, and learning as passé fantasies of the old guard.”
How To Get Boys To Take Up Ballet
Ángel Corella, artistic director of Pennsylvania Ballet and a former star at American Ballet Theater, talks frankly about the bullying and paternal disapproval he suffered while studying ballet as a boy in Spain, the strength and athleticism ballet requires, and the importance of the boys-only classes he has started in Philadelphia.
Hofesh Schechter Gets A Month-Long Festival In London This Fall
Okay, they’re describing it as a “London season” rather than a festival, but they’re calling it “Hofest,” and it “will encompass everything from Shechter’s opera debut to bringing his critically-acclaimed piece Political Mother into the rock concert atmosphere of Brixton Academy.” (And, of course, performances at Sadler’s Wells.)
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.27.15
Handel for hipsters: Revolution or red herring?
AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published 2015-04-27
First Thoughts On the New Whitney
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-04-27
Musical bits and pieces, mostly uninspiring
AJBlog: Lies Like Truth Published 2015-04-27
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Common Core Prioritizes The Arts In Standardized Test Prep
“A growing number of big cities, including New York, are increasing money for their arts programs as they roll out Common Core.”
Ellis Island Immigration Museum Is (Finally?) Getting An Update
Though it used to end the immigration story in 1954, “the museum will leap more than 60 years forward with the opening of two new galleries in what had once been the station’s kitchen and laundry. They pick up the narrative where it was left off.”
Six Novelists Withdraw From PEN Awards Gala Over ‘Charlie Hebdo’
Australian novelist Peter Carey: “All this is complicated by PEN’s seeming blindness to the cultural arrogance of the French nation, which does not recognize its moral obligation to a large and disempowered segment of their population.”