The museum was closed for five years – until this weekend, when it became the most recent expression of a long-distant dream: “Though it took decades to realize, the idea to design a building to house the collections of King Gustav III was first hatched in 1792.”
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Why Does Cinema Like To Torture Children?
Well, teenagers and other young people still make up most of the audiences for movies – “so it makes sense that cinema reflects problems that affect them – police racism and far-right violence, yes, but economic and environmental hostilities, too. In the tumult of 1968, there was talk of a ‘war against the young.’ Fifty years later, that just sounds like how it is – and a war creates war movies.”
Maryse Conde Wins The ‘Alt-Nobel’ Prize For Literature
The Guadaloupean writer, author of I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem and other books, won The New Academy Prize in Literature, “a new prize established by a group of over 100 Swedish cultural figures as a substitute for this year’s Nobel in Literature, which was not awarded for the first time since 1949 because of a sexual misconduct scandal.”
What the doctor ordered
Doctors will be able to prescribe visits to the Montreal Museum of Fine Art for their patients, reports the Gazette: Doctors will each be able to assign up to 50 museum prescriptions over the course
Homage to Félicien Rops
“The evil which the curiosity about the past uncovers marches in accelerating pursuit of the horrors lurking in the present . . . “That is a comment by Cyril Connolly about a very different work
Amy Winehouse Hologram To Go On Concert Tour (And Some Fans Are Unhappy)
Mitch Winehouse said his daughter’s fans have “been clamoring for something new from Amy, but really there isn’t anything new,” so he and the rest of her family “felt this would be a tremendous way for Amy both to revisit her fans through a hologram, and also an incredible way to raise money for our foundation.”
Lionel Messi Is The World’s Best Soccer Player. And Now He’s Getting His Own Cirque du Soleil Show
There were few details on how the company will depict the story of Messi, and his rise from a boy from Rosario, Argentina, who overcame a growth-hormone deficiency to a star at Spain’s F.C. Barcelona — and perhaps the best player in soccer history.
Wonder How A Conductor Communicates In Gestures? Here’s A Pretty Good Explanation
When the violins glissando, they’re the answer to the question posed by his left hand. It’s like he’s squeezing the music out of the air. Then the moment is gone. His left hand is back to supporting the right hand with small, occasional jabs in the air. The violins play thousands of other notes that night. But for those two seconds, because of this little gesture that nobody asked for, the music feels just a little bit like magic.
Michelle Dorrance Gets ABT Sliding Into Tap (Which Just Isn’t Easy)
“The new work in rehearsal, Dream within a Dream (deferred)< .em>, which will open [American] Ballet Theater’s fall season Oct. 17, is a hybrid of tap and ballet. And that’s a combination that almost never works.” Brian Seibert explains why that is, and he watches how Dorrance and the ABT dancers are facing the challenges.
New Ethnological Museum Sparks Furious Debate In Berlin
“A new museum crammed with jewels of non-Western art and culture in the center of the reunified capital seemed a good idea: It would show Germany as confident and open to the world. … But the Humboldt Forum has upset a lot of people. … One protester bellowed into a microphone, saying that, no matter what the founders had intended, the museum would forever be associated with the blood of empire.”