“What was once a pointedly outsider and marginal activity — performance art, the creation of time-based work that defied definition and continuing exhibition — has become the everyday stuff of major museums.”
Tag: 07.27.13
Just Say No To Huge Glowing Screens At Classical Events
In L.A.’s Hollywood Bowl, “the $1.5-million video system sullies music as much as electronic billboards in the mountains despoil nature.”
Carline Ray, 88, Who Spent Her Life As A Jazz Pioneer
“Ms. Ray was often the only woman in the band in a career that spanned seven decades and multiple instruments and genres, from calypso to choral works.”
Is Amazon (Thanks To The Justice Department) Now In Open War On Publishers?
The online retail giant discounts bestselling hardcover books even below Kindle editions – which “hurts traditional bricks-and-mortar stores and feeds consumer perception that a fair book price is lower than its cost.” But why?
Keeping Balanchine’s Choreography Alive
As the final generation that danced for Balanchine retires from teaching, how will his choreography live on?