“In Washington and around the country, Mrs. Mondale became known as a tireless advocate for the cultivation of the arts. … She traveled around the country attending museum exhibitions, dedicating new works of art and otherwise directing national attention on artists, noted or undiscovered, whom she admired.”
Archives for February 3, 2014
Walking Through Istanbul With Orhan Pamuk
On a cloudy December afternoon, Joshua Hammer follows the Nobel laureate from his native Cihangir (once the Greek quarter, later a red-light district, now Turkey’s Greenwich Village) to a lunch cart in a muddy plaza on the Bosporus, across the Golden Horn and past the grand and faded buildings of the late Ottoman government, to a favorite hole-in-the-wall near the Fatih Mosque,
Riccardo Muti to Stay With Chicago Symphony Until 2020
“Muti has honed these winter season announcements into a sort of high-wire performance art. It is something he clearly enjoys and always proves entertaining for the assembled press, if nerve-wracking for CSO staff who never know what the irrepressible maestro is going to say next.”
Conductor Gerd Albrecht, 78
He led orchestras in Denmark and Japan as well as in a number of German cities, and he spent a notable decade as music director of the Hamburg State Opera. Most famously, perhaps, he served a brief and stormy tenure as the first foreign chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic.
Plus-Size Women Dance Real Ballet On UK Reality Show
Duke Ellington’s Lost Opera
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.03.14
Reporting, the Digital Age, and the Disappearing Middle Class
Source: CultureCrash | Published on 2014-02-03
More On Damage To Egypt’s Heritage
Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2014-02-03
Curator Barry Bergdoll Explains MoMA’s “Frank Lloyd Wright and the City”
Source: CultureGrrl | Published on 2014-02-03
Seahawks Sweat-Soda (a Partial Repost)
Source: Out There | Published on 2014-02-03
Of Course Philip Seymour Hoffman Died Like He Did. But Really…
YouTube Has Paid $1 Billion To The Music Industry In Recent Years (But The Industry Isn’t Happy About It)
Renee Fleming Sings The Superbowl (So How’d She Do?)
As We Have Access To All Our Artistic History, Lines Between Past And Present Dissolve
Art Stolen By Nazis Goes To Auction (And Here Are The Issues)
Do The Oscars Have Any Morality?
“Together, the two controversies are this year’s contribution to an emerging insistence by many who watch the Oscar process, and some who participate in it, that Academy members should take into account moral, ethical and social factors when marking a ballot or enforcing the rules.”
Why It’s So Hard To Authenticate A Modigliani
“Authenticating art of all types has become more challenging in recent years as a widening circle of scholars and artists’ foundations refuse to offer opinions or publish a catalogue raisonné — the definitive compendium of an artist’s work — for fear of being sued by buyers or sellers unhappy with their conclusions.”
North Dakota’s Economy Is Booming And The State Is Growing. Now The Culture Boom
Will The First V&A Museum Outside Of London Ever Actually Open?
Should Research Paid For By The Public Be Openly Available To The Public?
“Scientific publishing is clearly in flux. Not that long ago, most colleagues I spoke with saw the push for open-access publishing as the quixotic crusade of a few enthusiasts. Today, open-access journals are major players who fill the scientific community’s growing demand for places to publish.”
When Detroit Was San Francisco (Does That Mean San Francisco Will Be Detroit?)
So Software Coders Are Artists (Is That Selling Great Coding Short?)
“When programmers say what they do is just like what writers do, or painters, the error is that they aren’t claiming enough, the fault is that they are being too humble. To compare code to works of literature may point the programmer towards legibility and elegance but it says nothing about the ability of code to materialise logic.”
English National Ballet’s Lead Principal To Retire After 25 Years
Memphis Symphony Says This Will Be Their Last Season Doing What They’re Doing…
Have Symphony Orchestras Gotten Too Loud?
“I have no empirical proof, but I’m convinced symphony orchestras have gotten significantly louder even in my lifetime. Hearing loss has become a real danger for orchestra musicians. Next time you’re at an orchestra concert, notice how often players are popping earplugs during performances.”