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Clayton With a Period, Full Stop

AJBlogs Posted: May 24, 2020 11:55 am

Clayton Patterson’s importance in general, but especially on the Lower East Side of New York City, comes from his commitment to social and political values for the good of his community. He has put his life on the line to document and preserve it in a way that few are brave enough to do. – Jan Herman

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The Difference Between European And American Intellectuals

IDEAS Posted: April 29, 2020 10:29 am

The American writer—so goes the transatlantic stereotype—addresses the general public deliberately and democratically. Rapidly clarifying her argument and the research or experience behind it, she (over)emphasizes how little she takes this audience’s trust and attention for granted. By a contrasting convention, the European essayist makes his genre and theme seem almost accidental. – Public Books

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The Stars Of Center Stage Remember What It Was Like Making The Dance Movie

DANCE Posted: April 26, 2020 7:30 am

Julie Kent, who played Kathleen: “I do remember talking to Nicholas [Hytner, the film’s director] at the audition about why he wanted to do this movie. . … He said he loved the art form, and the film company had done all this research, and they really felt that this movie was going to speak to an audience of teenage girls and their moms—this was going to be very impactful for a whole generation. Clearly, that was true!” – Dance Spirit

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AI Is Done With Games (Having Beaten Us). Now On To The Serious Stuff

IDEAS Posted: April 23, 2020 2:01 pm

A 2016 survey of top AI researchers found that, on average, they thought there was a 50 percent chance that AI systems would be able to “accomplish every task better and more cheaply than human workers” by 2061. The expert community doesn’t think of artificial general intelligence (AGI) as an impossible dream, so much as something that is more likely than not within a century. So let’s take this as our starting point in assessing the risks, and consider what would transpire were AGI created. – Nautilus

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Passages ‘I Cannot Unread, Unhear, Unknow’ — What’s Really Horrifying About Woody Allen’s Memoir

PEOPLE Posted: April 23, 2020 11:01 am

Mark Harris: “So forget the movies — he certainly has. What remains is the man, and on that score, Apropos of Nothing is one of the most unsettling accounts of a life I ever hope never to encounter again. … From its first pages, what is meant to amuse is as discomforting as steel-wool underwear.” – Vulture

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After Half A Century, Glenn Gould’s Radio Documentaries Still Seem Avant-Garde

MEDIA Posted: April 23, 2020 10:03 am

Shortly after the pianist abandoned live performance for good, he started making nonfiction radio programs for the CBC, the best-known of which are called the “Solitude Trilogy”: The Idea of North (about life in sub-Arctic Manitoba), The Latecomers (Newfoundland outports), and The Quiet Land (an isolated Mennonite community). The voices of those he interviewed are “intertwined as though contrapuntal voices in a Bach fugue or suite. Several could be sometimes be heard at once, each artfully edited, syllable by syllable, so that their rhythms made a certain sense as one emerged and another faded.” – Los Angeles Times

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Why Are So Many Jazz Greats Dying Of COVID?

MUSIC Posted: April 23, 2020 9:29 am

“It will be a while before we can accurately assess whether jazz indeed has suffered more losses, proportionately, than other art forms. Yet the tragedy of so many major figures dying of the disease in such short order says a great deal about the jazz world’s perils and vulnerabilities.” – Chicago Tribune

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The Pandemic Has Left Cirque Du Soleil Staring Down Bankruptcy

THEATRE Posted: April 23, 2020 9:05 am

“Its vast army of 1,800 artists relies on international travel to get from show to show, regularly crossing borders, performing on cruise ships, and interacting with fans. Daily training regimens require constant physical contact. The entire operation depends on an intricate logistical network of cargo ships, trucks, hotels, and food-service businesses, all of which have ground to a halt. In effect, government bans on large gatherings are a ban on Cirque itself, leaving a company that generated an estimated $950 million last year with essentially ‘zero revenues'” and debt that S&P and Moody’s have now assigned junk-bond status. – Fast Company

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Tips For Streaming Live Theater From The Guys Who Did It Really Well

THEATRE Posted: April 23, 2020 8:02 am

Earlier this week, Helen Shaw wrote that the Broadway.com stream of Jonathan Tolin’s Buyer & Cellar was “the proof-of-concept for low-budget live-capture.” So she talked to the people who made it happen — director Nic Cory, star Michael Urie, director of photography (and Urie’s partner) Ryan Spahn, digital director (and Broadway.com editor-in-chief) Paul Wontorek — about the details that really made it work (including the ones they learned the hard way). – Vulture

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Want To Really Appreciate Your Delivery People And Supermarket Cashiers? Re-Read Studs Terkel’s ‘Working’

WORDS Posted: April 23, 2020 7:34 am

“Today, as the pandemic reshapes the ways we understand our work life and its meaning, Terkel’s supermarket workers would be classified ‘essential’ to the smooth continuity of society. Yet they would also receive modest wages (at best) and come to work knowing that they will be exposed daily to COVID-19. It’s doubtful being ‘essential’ would leave them feeling any more valued. Or as Working described it nearly a half century ago, many of the workers who keep this country humming are the same people we regard as social wallpaper and take for granted.” – Chicago Tribune

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The Composer For Quarantine Consolation — Bach? Beethoven? Brahms? How About Leroy Anderson?

MUSIC Posted: April 23, 2020 7:01 am

What, the guy who wrote all those pops-concert pieces like The Typewriter, The Syncopated Clock, and Sleigh Ride? Yes, says Anthony Tommasini: “Bach provides solace, Beethoven stirs us with resolve and Brahms probes aching emotional ambiguities. But trust me: Leroy Anderson will make you feel better about things.” – The New York Times

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As Epidemic Seems To Fade, Germany And Austria Move Toward Reopening Museums

VISUAL Posted: April 23, 2020 6:33 am

In Germany, it’s a state-by-state process: small museums in Brandenburg are reopening this week, with Thuringia next week, Saxony and Berlin in early May and the rest of the country following. Austria’s museums will open their doors in mid-May, though larger ones such as the Belvedere may wait as late as July. Distancing procedures and other safety measures are being developed with Teutonic thoroughness. – ARTnews

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Could We See A New Version Of FDR’s Depression-Era Arts Programs? Not Likely

ISSUES Posted: April 23, 2020 6:05 am

As we know, American society and politics (especially in Congress) are very different in 2020 than they were in 1934. Even then, there was political opposition to the very idea of arts funding and suspicion of artists as dangerous leftists. Julia Jacobs looks at that opposition, then and now. – The New York Times

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Actress Shirley Knight, 83

PEOPLE Posted: April 23, 2020 5:32 am

“In a long film, television and stage career [she] earned two Oscar nominations while still in her 20s, won a Tony Award in 1975 and later garnered three Emmy Awards.” – The New York Times

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Community Citizenship

AJBlogs Posted: April 22, 2020 11:55 am

Do you consider your organization’s deepest responsibility to be to art or to people? I don’t mean what is your mission. Rather, in extreme instances, what is most important? If many in your community are hurting is your focus on art? – Doug Borwick

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Alan Shestack, 81, Old Master Prints Scholar, Generous Mentor, Thrice Museum Director

AJBlogs Posted: April 22, 2020 11:54 am

Considering his long, illustrious career as an art scholar and museum director, not to mention his generosity in sharing his deep insights with others (including me), I’m puzzled as to why there’s been so little mention of his death last week. – Lee Rosenbaum

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Disney Heir Calls Out Walt Disney Co. Execs Taking Huge Bonuses While Slashing Employees’ Pay

ISSUES Posted: April 22, 2020 7:33 am

“Abigail Disney, an Emmy award-winning film-maker and a granddaughter of the company’s co-founder Roy Disney, launched a Twitter tirade against the world’s biggest entertainment group … for protecting executive bonuses and dividends of more than $1.5bn while cutting the pay of more than 100,000 workers to help weather the financial impact of coronavirus.” – The Guardian

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  • Almanac: Gore Vidal on the will to power
    “To want power is corruption already.” Gore Vidal, The Best Man Continue reading Almanac: Gore Vidal on the will to power at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-25
  • Just because: Gore Vidal talks about The Best Man
    In an undated TV interview, Gore Vidal talks about Franklin J. Schaffner’s 1964 screen version of The Best Man, his 1960 play, and the ideas about politics on which it was based: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-24
  • Joseph Conyers on Being an Artist Entrepreneur
    Check out this week’s episode of my show Arts Engines with Joseph Conyers, The Philadelphia Orchestra bassist and entrepreneur, as he shares the passions that have fueled his success!... Read more
    Source: Aaron Dworkin Published on: 2021-01-23
  • Looking for a Fugitive Rainbow—a Very Transient “Gift” to the Bidens
    Laura Baptiste, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s (SAAM’s) always helpful chief of communications and public affairs, found herself fielding misinformation disseminated in a number of news reports after Wednesday’s Presidential Inauguration festivities. She scrambled to set the record straight about Robert Duncanson‘s suddenly famous “Landscape with Rainbow,” after several published... Read more
    Source: CultureGrrl Published on: 2021-01-22
  • Verbal virtuosity
    In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column, I review Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey’s Shaw! Shaw! Shaw!. Here’s an excerpt. *  *  * Webcasts of the plays of George Bernard Shaw have been scarce during the pandemic. It’s a shame, for Shaw’s plays are for the most part comedies of ideas, political and... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-22
  • Jump-starting an arts revival
    In today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column, I talk about how to jump-start a post-pandemic revival of the arts in America. Here’s an excerpt. *  *  * As everybody with even the slightest interest in the arts knows, the coming of Covid-19 has had a catastrophic effect on creative institutions in every... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-22
  • Replay: Alfred Hitchcock talks to Dick Cavett
    Alfred Hitchcock is interviewed by Dick Cavett on TV in 1972: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) Continue reading Replay: Alfred Hitchcock talks to Dick Cavett at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-22
  • Almanac: Tolstoy on happiness
    “Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude) Continue reading Almanac: Tolstoy on happiness at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-22
  • Almanac: Ambrose Bierce on the President of the United States
    “PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom—and of whom only—it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary Continue reading Almanac: Ambrose Bierce on the President of the United States at... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-21
  • Ominous Juxtaposition? Biden Flanked by Duncanson’s “Rainbow” & Statue of a Murdered President
    In a jolting inauguration installation, marred by unintentionally dark symbolism that, hopefully, wasn’t discerned by the Bidens, this afternoon’s celebration after the joyful swearing-in of the new President and Vice President included a brief walk through the Capitol rotunda led by Missouri Senator Roy Blunt, chairman of the Senate Republican... Read more
    Source: CultureGrrl Published on: 2021-01-20
  • Snapshot: FDR’s 1933 inauguration
    Sound footage of the presidential inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) Continue reading Snapshot: FDR’s 1933 inauguration at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-20
  • Almanac: Ralph Ellison on power
    “Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.” Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man Continue reading Almanac: Ralph Ellison on power at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-20
  • Lookback: “Call me Bartleby”
    From 2006: I woke up this morning at nine-thirty, an hour later than my normal get-up-and-go time. As I descended from the loft in which I spend my nights, it struck me that I had nothing whatsoever to do today: no deadlines, no shows to see, no meals with friends,... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-19
  • Trey Devey share his passion for Arts Education
    “If we are empowered with creativity, with collaboration, with all of the skills that come from practicing the arts… that will lead to the breakthrough ideas.” Trey Devey, President of the Interlochen Center for the Arts, speaks to the power of arts education.... Read more
    Source: Aaron Dworkin Published on: 2021-01-16
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