Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland all helped Washington State gather info and collections for the revamped and massively expanded Nordic Museum, which was originally founded to tell the stories of the fishing communities of Ballard. Things have changed a bit: “Our story in the old museum was from about 1880 to 1920, mainly the immigration story. But here the story goes all the way back in time, starting when the ice recedes in the Nordic country.”
Tag: 05.04.18
When Changing The Museum’s Collection Means Letting Go Of (Some) Warhols And Other Works By White Guys
The Baltimore Museum of Art has plenty of art by Warhol, Rauschenberg, Kline, and other artists, but it’s selling some of their works in order to fund the purchase of art by artists of color both male and female, and by women of all races. Why? “The massive overrepresentation of white, male artists is a problem the BMA shares with galleries all over the western world, and cuts to the heart of a UK museum heritage that grew out of 19th-century philanthropy, endowments and bequests.”
Leonard Slatkin Needs A Heart Operation, And Will Miss Several Detroit Symphony Concerts
The surgery comes as the conductor is about to transition from music director to “music director laureate” and will mean he misses the final three concerts of his music director tenure at the DSO. “Slatkin, who became DSO music director in 2008, said his cardiologists have assured him surgery should fix his heart issues. His recovery is expected to take about three months.”
Is It Time For A Ballet Based On A BBC Crime Family Drama?
Well, why shouldn’t the hit BBC (and Netflix) show Peaky Blinders become a ballet?
A Sexual Assault Scandal Has Canceled This Year’s Nobel Prize For Literature
We’re not even talking about the assaults and abuses alleged to have been committed by various male authors – no, this is about the Nobel committee itself. “At the root of the institution’s unprecedented crisis are a raft of wide-ranging allegations against Jean-Claude Arnault, a photographer and leading cultural figure in Sweden, who is married to Katarina Frostenson, an academy member and author.”
How Neuroscience Is Struggling To Understand Feelings In The Brain
“The question is not ‘Where is happiness in the brain?’ That’s like asking ‘Where is the perception of the sound of a dog barking in the brain?’ The better question is ‘How does the brain support happiness? What networks and processes are used to give rise to it?’ ”
Motion Picture Academy Expels Cosby And Polanski
In a statement, the Academy announced that the governing board had voted to remove the two disgraced stars “in accordance with the organization’s standards of conduct”. The board continued “to encourage ethical standards that require members to uphold the Academy’s values of respect for human dignity”.
Liam Scarlett Is Choreographing The Royal Ballet’s First New ‘Swan Lake’ In 30 Years
“When it was announced that the Royal’s feathery blockbuster was being entrusted to Scarlett, eyebrows were raised. It wasn’t his talent that was in question, it was his artistic unpredictability. He exploded on the scene in 2010, when, still a junior dancer, he created Asphodel Meadows, a beautiful one-act work that proclaimed his classical credentials. Yet he went on to wrong-foot audiences with dark and disturbing works such as Sweet Violets (2012), a gothic sex-and-death thriller about a Jack the Ripper serial killer, and Hansel and Gretel (2013), reimagined as a grotesque paedophile nightmare. But hey, he says, it’s only make-believe. ‘I was just trying to tell a good story. You don’t have to worry about me.'”
There Will Be No Nobel Prize For Literature In 2018
“The Swedish Academy … announc[ed] Friday that the prize will not be handed out this year, on the grounds that the academy is in no shape to pick a winner after a string of sex abuse allegations and financial crimes scandals … and it was decided that two winners will be announced in 2019, with one recipient recognized for this year’s eligibility period.”