“My dream is that we have a music tradition here in our favela that mixes the Brazilian traditions with New Orleans jazz traditions in wind instruments, and we create something new in live music.”
Tag: 08.07.16
The Novelist Who Doesn’t Care How Badly Her Characters Behave
“With Olive Kitteridge, I remember at one point, I thought, uh-oh, this is really going out there – and I remember very consciously telling myself, don’t be careful. Do not be careful. You’ve got to let her be who she is.”
The Man Whose Signature Made Woodstock Possible
“Enter Elliot Tiber, one of the unlikeliest heroes of the 1960s counterculture. A former yeshiva student from Brooklyn who did not even smoke marijuana, he spent his weekends helping his parents operate the shabby, money-losing El Monaco Motel in nearby Bethel. During the week, he worked as an interior decorator in Manhattan and frequented the city’s gay bars, a routine that had recently plunged him into the Stonewall uprising.”
The Science Of Making Art From Animal Guts
“It’s easy to preserve skin, but when it comes to an organ it’s a very different matter: they decompose no matter what you do.”
Career Goal: Choreographing The Olympics’ Opening Ceremony
“Ms. Colker is a passionate mixer of forms. (In addition to dance, she has a background as a competitive volleyball player.) Her company, Companhia Dança Deborah Colker, combines death-defying feats on giant hamster wheels, vogueing, hip-hop, acrobatics and anything else that suits her eclectic sensibility. And she loves props: walls, vases, ropes, wheels. This was all evident in the show.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs For 08.07.16
An Exhibition Not to Be Missed, And One I’m Glad Is Over
In New York, I visited several special exhibitions this past week. Let me mention two here. The first, Founding Figures: Copper Sculpture from Ancient Mesopotamia, ca. 3300–2000 B.C., is at the Morgan Library and Museum until … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2016-08-07
Legends and Visionaries
New York Theatre Ballet performs a new work and a classic at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. New York Theatre Ballet in Song Before Spring by Zhong-Jing Fang and Steven Melendez. Clockwise from R: Melendez, … read more
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2016-08-06
Clark Lark: What Will I Miss on My Busman’s Holiday? (Sotheby’s edition)
Anyone within driving distance of Williamstown, MA, who has read Lance Esplund’s voluptuous review in theWall Street Journal of the Clark Art Institute’s Splendor, Myth, and Vision: Nudes From the Prado must be exclaiming, … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2016-08-06
Ystad Festival
The Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival is in its fourth day. It is so jam-packed and tightly scheduled that this is my first opportunity to begin reporting on it. The early posts will be a series … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2016-08-06
Total Obscenity of the American Dream
Heathcote Williams’s verse polemic delivered by Alan Cox. “Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton — A Foaming Sleazeball from Hell versus An Iron Lady, Hands Dripping with Blood” Click to listen. … read more
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2016-08-05
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Five Essential Stories From Last Week’s ArtsJournal Haul, Context Edition
This Week: The ways in which we experience art are about to change in big ways… Auction houses are becoming shadow banks for the super-wealthy with money to stash… The Met Museum’s super-successful year (at least at the admissions booth)… Predictably, Harry Potter slays sales records… Do we have a problem with the ways we develop artists’ careers?
This Art Museum Was Supposed To Open In Early 2016, But It Sure Didn’t
“The historic building remains in a bare-bones state, its parking lot devoid of construction vehicles, as stakeholders await a revised design plan for what the Ringling College of Art and Design, which absorbed the SMOA organization a decade ago, is calling its ‘South Campus Complex.'”
Architectural Acupuncture: How A Modernist Made Room For 7.5 Million Visitors At The Palace Of Versailles
“By creating a 3,000-square-foot basement for a gift shop, coat check and bathrooms beneath the Pavillon and the adjacent Princes’ Courtyard, he created a new loop through the chateau. Visitors could enter the palace through the Pavillon, proceed on the circuit and finish in the basement, where a grand staircase would take them back up to the Courtyard.”
Why Are So Many American Authors Writing About Characters Outside America?
Charles McGrath suggests that it’s “a novelistic weariness with America and Americans, a sense that our native ground is not too thin, as Henry James would have it, but too played out.” Siddhartha Deb thinks perhaps they shouldn’t bother: “Can a novel set abroad be anything other than the Grand Tour novel or its successor, the imperial novel?”