This is a textbook example of how a narrow viewpoint and blind devotion to procedure can lead you to bad ends. It’s the permanent-collection equivalent of following a navigation app’s directions deeper and deeper into a known wildfire just because you know for certain the route happens to be free of traffic. – artnet
Tag: 09.23.19
Olafur Eliasson Named As UN Special Ambassador On Climate Change
Eliasson is known for his environmentally-themed work, which includes the installation Ice Watch, displayed during the UN Climate Summit in 2015. He is the subject of a retrospective show currently on display at Tate Modern, London. – Arts Professional
A Need For A New Definition Of Museums
“We are used to seeing a museum as a building, a precinct, an institution and a collection. Museums are indeed spaces of particular kinds, but these kinds of international visits, exhibition loans and research projects suggest that, even more fundamentally, museums are networks.” – Apollo
A First: More Boys Than Girls Graduate National Ballet Of Canada School
The class of 2020 at the Toronto-based academy is comprised of 16 boys and 11 girls. – Newsweek
Self-Help For Millennials Means Something Different
Millennials aren’t looking for lifehacks to win friends and influence people; they are looking for workable systems that will sanction and codify their behaviors. Luckily for them, philosophers have been working on doing just that for the past several thousand years. – LitHub
How A Once-Dirt-Poor Italian Town Of 60,000 Became An EU Capital Of Culture
“Every European Capital of Culture offers a unique selling point – it goes with the territory for those attempting to brave the European Commission’s exacting selection process. For sheer boldness of vision, Matera 2019 seriously breaks the mould.” – The Stage
How To Stage A Dance Piece Overseas When The Choreographer Won’t Fly
Jérôme Bel has decided to do his part to reduce greenhouse gases by ending his travel by air. Catherine Gallant is dancing his new solo work, Isadora, in New York. Reporter Roslyn Sulcas visits Bel in his Paris kitchen to see how he choreographs on Gallant via Skype. – The New York Times
The Downsides Of Meritocracy
“Merit is a sham,” the preacher saith. “Merit itself is not a genuine excellence but rather—like the false virtues that aristocrats trumpeted in the ancien régime—a pretense, constructed to rationalize an unjust distribution of advantage.” – The New Yorker
L.A.’s Free-Shakespeare-In-The-Park Will Finally Get A Permanent Stage Of Its Own
“The Independent Shakespeare Co., which has put on [the Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival] since 2010, said the city soon will build a $4-million permanent stage where the temporary stage was located, pushing forward the stalled project.” – Los Angeles Times
Anne Midgette Resigns As Washington Post’s Classical Music Critic
“I am resigning from @washingtonpost as of Nov. 22 to work on my book, be home at night for my son, and see what the next chapter holds. … The Post is committed to replacing me, and it will be exciting to see a new voice in the role. This was completely my choice. Excited to see what comes.” – Twitter