“One of Canada’s most prestigious violinists is battling the Canada Border Services Agency in Federal Court after he was fined $120,000 for failing to declare nearly half a million dollars in musical instruments.”
Archives for January 13, 2014
Making Sense of Woody Allen’s Long, Confusing Career
The man has churned out a movie a year since the 1970s; taken as a whole, those films cover a bewildering array of subject matter and approach. Andrew O’Hehir sorts it all out.
The MLA Hookup Ad That Transfixed the Internet
We know (don’t we?) that the Modern Language Association’s annual convention is the scene of many an academic’s assignation. But this particular Craigslist ad caught people’s attention because, as Prof. Rebecca Schulman puts it, “what it sexualizes is nothing less than the single worst moment of your average academic’s entire professional life.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.13.14
Progress (but no closure) in “Grand Bargain” to Protect Detroit Institute’s Art
Source: CultureGrrl | Published on 2014-01-13
Denver Makes Three: Are More Coming?
Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2014-01-13
“Does Anyone Remember Conrad Gozzo?”
Source: RiffTides | Published on 2014-01-13
Here’s what Delta Airline did after they smashed my lute
Source: Slipped Disc | Published on 2014-01-13
What’s Vänskä doing, post-Minnesota? New music, that’s what
Source: Slipped Disc | Published on 2014-01-13
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Foundations Agree To Pay $330 Million For Detroit Art
“Presidents of the Ford Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, and the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan will serve on a leadership committee that will coordinate the philanthropic effort.”
How Do You Archive Dance? (Maybe We Have To Change The Notion Of Archiving)
“Each of us has an archive of sensations and actions held in our own bodies, as well as in our collective culture. We asked ourselves: do these alter with hindsight or do they stay the same? Does the memory of our story and experience, which are held in our minds, change over time? If this is true, do we need to take that into account while reperforming physical material from the past?”
Why Do We Still Celebrate Being A “Published” Writer?
“Why do we have this uncritical reverence for the published writer? Why does the simple fact of publication suddenly make a person, hitherto almost derided, now a proper object of our admiration, a repository of special and important knowledge about the human condition?”
Who Will Succeed Peter Maxwell Davies As Master Of The Queen’s Music?
“Speculation is rising about who has been chosen to succeed him as the musical equivalent of Poet Laureate, a post that can trace its history back to Charles I’s creation of the title “Master of the King’s Musick” for Nicholas Lanier in 1626. In the 20th century the position has diminished in importance and become an honorary title, but nevertheless it has been occupied by figures including Edward Elgar, Arnold Bax and Arthur Bliss.”
The Latest Art Market Scam
“Art experts are warning of the rapid spread of a new con-trick infecting the market, which involves cheaply produced works in the style of great artists being sold by dealers who dishonestly suggest they are genuine.”
What Parents Worry About In Our Media-Soaked Culture
“The British Board of Film Classification has found that parents are worried about the normalisation of promiscuous behaviour and strong language in films, TV, pop videos and gaming.”
Is The Web Dying?
“The gist of the argument is this: as app-happy mobile devices become the primary way we compute, the good old browser becomes irrelevant. The hyperlinked, free-flowing, egalitarian, and ubiquitous world wide web will fade away. Instead, digital existence will mostly transpire within the more self-contained domains of individual apps, which offer their creators the flexibility and power of building right into the mobile operating systems. We will still have the internet, but it won’t be the same wherever you use it. And some will have more power over it than others.”
So What Does Music Smell Like?
“We’ve had immersive theatre, now here’s the immersive concert experience, the latest attempt to stir concert-goers out of their stupor and reignite classical music for new audiences.”
Amazing: In 2013 Not One African American Artist Topped The Billboard Top 100
“Not one lead black act has topped the Hot 100 all year. That’s never happened before in the chart’s 55-year history. It’s a huge pendulum swing in less than a decade.”
Arts Journalism Is Being Reinvented (The Question Is How)
“Do we have to do all of those things to be considered an arts journalist? Old-fashoned newspaper journalists have fought a rearguard action for more than a decade, except now they (we!) are surrounded, overwhelmed and increasingly angry about it.”
2013 Really Was A Bad Year For Plagiarism. Why?
“Writing is a dance that involves imitation, inspiration, and originality. But all things considered, writerly disapproval of plagiarism has remained remarkably consistent over the centuries—really, even over millennia.”
Golden Globes Were A Bad Night For Black Artists
“Despite nominations in a number of major categories, black artists were shut out through the awards show. Making it particularly disappointing for many viewers is the fact that thanks to the box office and critical success of films like The Butler and 12 Years a Slave, many were heralding 2013 as a banner year for black cinema.”
Actors Meet To Protest Lower Touring Wages
“At issue is the increasing number of musical tours using Equity contracts with weekly salaries in the range of $700 to $1,100 — far less than the full production contracts that pay actors $1,800 a week, as well as a more generous per diem benefit.”
Report: Foreign Tourists Power Up Broadway Box Office
“International visitors comprised approximately 22.5% of Broadway admissions during the 2012/13 season, the highest percentage in recorded history.”
Reconstructing The Kabul Museum After Taliban Looting
“Three hundred of the most important of the 2,500 objects the Taliban had smashed have been painstakingly reassembled in recent years, and many of the others are arrayed in boxes and trays, awaiting their turn for restoration.”