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Archives for March 13, 2014

Checking In On the Art Scene in Bangladesh

VISUAL Posted: March 13, 2014 10:50 pm

A visit to the buzzing Dhaka Art Center and the Bengal Foundation gives a glimpse into a vibrant enterprise “rising above clichéd portraiture of a country steeped in flood and famine.”

VISUAL Published: 03.14.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 03.14.14

Ceci N’est Pas ‘Swan Lake’

DANCE Posted: March 13, 2014 10:40 pm

“It’s not a rereading of Swan Lake, it’s another thing, which is why I’ve called it Lac,” says choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot of his rereading of Swan Lake more primal take on the Tchaikovsky score, which he created for his company, the reborn Ballets de Monte Carlo.

DANCE Published: 03.14.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 03.14.14

Every Choreographer Should Have Camille A. Brown’s Problems

DANCE Posted: March 13, 2014 10:33 pm

She’ll have to miss seeing her choreography in Friday night’s opening of the new musical The Fortress of Solitude – because she’ll be dancing with her own company in their Boston debut. (She doesn’t mind so much.)

DANCE Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in The Boston Globe Published: 03.13.14

The Dynamic Duo That’s Supercharged the Canadian Opera Co.

MUSIC Posted: March 13, 2014 9:30 pm

In barely more than five years, general director Alexander Neef and music director Johannes Debus have taken the casting, productions and marketing up two or three levels, making the Toronto company one of the most important in the Western Hemisphere.

MUSIC Published: 03.10.14

Read the story in Toronto Life Published: 03.10.14

I Made the Muslim Hipster Video

ISSUES Posted: March 13, 2014 9:20 pm

The original #mipster, Layla Shaikley, describes the exciting responses – and the dismaying backlashes – to the two-and-a-half-minute video clip that went viral last year.

ISSUES Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 03.13.14

There’s More to Making Non-Sexist and Non-Racist Art Than (Thinking You’re) Not Being Sexist or Racist

ISSUES Posted: March 13, 2014 9:15 pm

“The folks at South African game development studio QCF Design have a post which addresses this issue in some thought-provoking ways” – which they tried putting into practice in their game Desktop Dungeons.

ISSUES Published: 03.12.14

Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 03.12.14

Nôtre-Dame de Paris Gets a Lighting Makeover

VISUAL Posted: March 13, 2014 9:10 pm

“Many things look better with crisp-edged LEDs – traffic signals, airplane cabins, perhaps even Christmas lights. But what about the moody, atmospheric interior of a 12th-century French-Gothic cathedral?” Oh, yes – have a look and see.

VISUAL Published: 03.11.14

Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 03.11.14

Could Phobias and Addictions Be Treated With a Pill?

IDEAS Posted: March 13, 2014 9:05 pm

“Drugs that work to boost learning may help someone with a phobia to ‘detrain their brain’, losing the fearful associations that fuel their panic. This approach is also showing promise for a host of other problems – from chemical and gambling addictions to obsessive nail-biting.”

IDEAS Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in New Scientist Published: 03.13.14

Behind the Arthur Chu Backlash: Why Are Americans So Protective of ‘Jeopardy!’?

MEDIA Posted: March 13, 2014 9:00 pm

“To understand why [the nine-time winner’s] controversial but effective strategy upset so many viewers, it’s worth looking back at why the show first became a TV staple in the Cold War era.”

MEDIA Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 03.13.14

‘In the Black Box, You Can Do Really Anything. We Have Always Abused That.”

THEATRE Posted: March 13, 2014 8:50 pm

That statement pretty much sums up the famously confrontational Belgian theatre troupe Ontroerend Goed. You’ll love how they got their start: “Suddenly we were told that what we made was theatre, and given money to make more.”

THEATRE Published: 03.12.14

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 03.12.14

How Do You Dramatize Depression? With Werewolves, Of Course

THEATRE Posted: March 13, 2014 8:41 pm

Matt Osman, author of The Boy Who Cried: “My mind hit on werewolves, the original lunatics. I would create a world where it was depression that was the myth and werewolves were treated by the state as a common occurrence to be quietly put away.”

THEATRE Published: 03.12.14

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 03.12.14

But How Do Psychiatrists Treat Werewolves?

IDEAS Posted: March 13, 2014 8:40 pm

Yes, this is a thing. “In the psychiatric literature, the werewolf hallucinations and delusions the patient was experiencing are broadly classified as clinical lycanthropy, or lycomania.”

IDEAS Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in Pacific Standard Published: 03.13.14

Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.13.14

AJBlogs Posted: March 13, 2014 8:38 pm

Picasso Museum: Reopening With What?
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-03-14

How Did We Ever Get By Without Justice?
AJBlog: PostClassic | Published 2014-03-14

Will Gentrification Kill Music Scenes?
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-03-13

Respecting the craft
AJBlog: The Artful Manager | Published 2014-03-13

 

 

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AJBlogs Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in AJ Blogs Published: 03.13.14

Man Saved By Pianos In NYC Building Collapse

PEOPLE Posted: March 13, 2014 2:56 pm

“The pianos flew in the air — pianos were all around me,” he said. “They were literally on their side. I was stuck in some miraculous cocoon” of pianos, he said of the massive wood and steel instruments that fell benignly around his body — shielding him from the weight of five stories worth of debris.

PEOPLE Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in New York Post Published: 03.13.14

Association Of Art Museum Directors Condemns College Art Museum Sale

VISUAL Posted: March 13, 2014 11:09 am

“The prohibition against the sale of works of art from museum collections for such purposes is a violation of one of the most fundamental professional principles of the art museum field,” the museum directors’ association said in a statement.

VISUAL Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 03.13.14

Is Your DNA As An Actor Set In The Womb?

THEATRE Posted: March 13, 2014 10:58 am

“While raw talent and rigorous training are clearly vital, recent research suggests the importance of an even more fundamental factor: The level of testosterone the budding thespian was exposed to in his or her mother’s womb.”

THEATRE Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in Pacific Standard Published: 03.13.14

John Banville Talks About The Agony Of Being A Writer

WORDS Posted: March 13, 2014 10:56 am

“Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don’t do well, in the hope of learning.”

WORDS Published: 2014, Spring

Read the story in Paris Review Published: 2014, Spring

Conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi On The Responsibilities And Rewards Of Being An Artist

PEOPLE Posted: March 13, 2014 10:29 am

“I don’t like the idea that artists should keep out of politics. The more you know and understand art, the more you have to defend values. You should speak up—and early enough to matter.”

PEOPLE Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in The Wall Street Journal Published: 03.13.14

Budapest Launches An Architectural Competition To Build Five New Museums At Once

VISUAL Posted: March 13, 2014 10:24 am

“Officials say that the total estimated costs for the five museum buildings in the cultural quarter is 75 billion Hungarian forints (€239m), with much of the money coming from funds allocated to the country by the EU.”

VISUAL Published: 03.12.14

Read the story in The Art Newspaper Published: 03.12.14

A Utopian Society – One Group’s Quest To Build A Floating Country That Creates Its Own Culture

IDEAS Posted: March 13, 2014 9:21 am

“About six years ago, a group based in California’s Bay Area, led by the grandson of U.S. economist Milton Friedman, began designing and raising money for a floating ocean city-state, whose citizens could harness the sea to solve hunger, cure sickness and fix climate change.”

IDEAS Published: 03.12.14

Read the story in Salon Published: 03.12.14

Sotheby’s Under Attack (And How What The Auction House Does Might Utterly Change)

VISUAL Posted: March 13, 2014 9:17 am

There’s a “battle between the Sotheby’s Old Guard and a financier who views artworks as financial assets that trade in a market made by the auction houses. The confrontation figures to get bitter and bruising between now and May, but at its center there sits a rather more exalted question: How do you properly value art?”

VISUAL Published: 03.12.14

Read the story in New York Magazine Published: 03.12.14

Is This True: Audiences Are More Open To New Choral Music Than To New Instrumental Music?

MUSIC Posted: March 13, 2014 9:12 am

“Choirs routinely look for and program new music and that draws audiences, but instrumental ensembles suffer at the box office when presenting new works. In my opinion, there are a few reasons for this, with the main reason having to do with the difference between the human voice and instruments.”

MUSIC Published: 03.12.14

Read the story in Colorado Public Radio Published: 03.12.14

10,000 Hours Of Practice Can Let You Master Anything? Science Weighs In On The Idea

IDEAS Posted: March 13, 2014 8:22 am

Different levels of deliberate practice can only explain one third of the variation in performance levels in chess players and musicians, the authors found, “leaving the majority of the reliable variance unexplained and potentially explainable by other factors.”

IDEAS Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in Fast Company Published: 03.13.14

36 Ways The World Wide Web Has Changed Us

MEDIA Posted: March 13, 2014 8:03 am

“With more than 4 billion indexed Web pages, thousands imploding and starting up by the day, any thorough accounting of the Web’s impact would be impossible.”

MEDIA Published: 03.12.14

Read the story in Washington Post Published: 03.12.14

What They Almost Called The Internet 25 Years Ago

IDEAS Posted: March 13, 2014 7:57 am

Tim Berners-Lee: Mine of Information, The Information Mine, The Mesh. None had quite the right ring.

IDEAS Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in Washington Post Published: 03.13.14

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