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When A Private Museum Fails

VISUAL Posted: December 15, 2013 8:10 am

“Situations like this are very complicated. There’s the safety of the work, there’s the protection of the work. You know, how do you sustain a collection? How do you have it support itself as a collection?”

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VISUAL Published: 12.14.13, NPR

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The Roots Of Urban Planning In The Gardens At Versailles

VISUAL Posted: December 10, 2013 12:53 am

An new exhibition at Louis XIV’s château posits that His Majesty’s landscape architect, André Le Nôtre, first put into practice ideas about layout that would influence urban planners for the next several centuries.

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VISUAL Published: 12.09.13, NPR

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Is It Fanfic If A ‘Real’ Writer Does It?

WORDS Posted: December 8, 2013 8:50 am

“That impulse — to find out more about minor or secondary characters — has inspired many books over the years.”

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WORDS Published: 12.07.13, NPR

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Alexander Payne’s Issue With Fathers

MEDIA Posted: December 6, 2013 9:00 am

Says the director of this fall’s Nebraska (and of The Descendants, Sideways, and Election), “I think many of us have experiences with fathers who … are loving, they are nice, but somehow they’re on another planet and you wonder your whole life, ‘What is that planet that my father is on?’.”

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MEDIA Published: (audio), 12.02.13, NPR

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Probing The Unknowable Mysteries Of The Brain

IDEAS Posted: December 6, 2013 1:34 am

“Is the brain a sort of quantum computer? What is consciousness? Marcelo Gleiser’s brain is buzzing with big questions after participating in a conference that asked if quantum physics plays a role in how we think.”

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IDEAS Published: 12.04.13, NPR

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Price For Norman Rockwell Smashes Record

VISUAL Posted: December 4, 2013 10:37 am

“By far, the star of the bunch was the 1951 masterpiece Saying Grace, which sold for $46 million — a record for Rockwell’s art… The AP says the artist’s previous record of $15 million had been set by “Breaking Home Ties” at a 2006 Sotheby’s auction.”

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The Truth About The Left Brain/Right Brain Relationship

IDEAS Posted: December 3, 2013 11:57 am

“Is the idea that the left hemisphere of the brain is more logical and the right more intuitive a scientific fact or a cultural fiction? Commentator Tania Lombrozo turns to an expert for answers.”

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IDEAS Published: 12.02.13, NPR

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Serbian Composer Djuro Zivkovic Wins Grawemeyer Prize

MUSIC Posted: December 3, 2013 9:40 am

“Zivkovic, who is also active as a violinist, has a mystical bent. He characterizes his winning piece as an “instrumental cantata” inspired by the religious music of J.S. Bach and especially the Philokalia (love of the beautiful), a collection of ancient Eastern Orthodox texts.”

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Elizabeth Streb Pushes Dance With Physics

DANCE Posted: December 2, 2013 8:51 am

“I force myself on scientists and try and ask some odd questions about quantum physics and particle physics and what would happen if you morphed up those extra six dimensions from superstring theory and put them on the body, what would the body look like? Or – I mean, what does it mean to go in the fifth direction, the sixth direction, the seventh direction.”

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  • More on live jazz streaming, Chicago to Zurich and beyond
    Saxophonist Chico Freeman, a third-generation Chicago jazzman, live-streams his new international band from Zurich on Saturday 2/27 at 2:30 pm ET, and I moderated their Zoom talk of coming together for the... Read more
    Source: Jazz Beyond Jazz Published on: 2021-02-26
  • Joseph Brodsky on the Life of Books
    On the whole, books are less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors. ... Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer himself has... Read more
    Source: Straight|Up Published on: 2021-02-26
  • Simply splendid Sondheim
    In today’s Wall Street Journal, I review Signature Theatre’s Simply Sondheim and the Mint Theater Company revival of Hazel Ellis’ Women Without Men. Here’s an excerpt. *  *  * Lovers of large-scale musicals have been... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-02-26
  • Almanac: Tennessee Williams on theatrical characters
    “The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one’s office for a job.” Tennessee Williams... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-02-26
  • What Patricia Highsmith wrought
    In today’s Wall Street Journal, I write about Patricia Highsmith. Here’s an excerpt. *  *  * The next time you watch a movie or TV series about a heartless serial killer, say a silent word... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-02-25
  • Almanac: Samuel Butler on sickness
    “I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.” Samuel Butler, The Way of... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-02-25
  • The Relativity Switch
    This story may sound like a metaphor. But it’s actually a case-in-point: When preparing to launch the Navigation Technology Satellite 2 (NTS-2) in 1977, the NAVSTAR GPS engineering team was in a... Read more
    Source: The Artful Manager Published on: 2021-02-24
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dies at 101 His Pictures of a Gone World Remain
    A literary era passes. It was already past, yet it still has influence. Maybe the biggest. Because ArtsJournal was down yesterday—I know not why—I couldn’t post this. The world didn't miss it.... Read more
    Source: Straight|Up Published on: 2021-02-24
  • Jazz beats the virus online
    Chicago presenters of jazz and new music, and journalists from Madrid to the Bay Area (plus Baltimore-based pianist Lafayette Gilchrist and his associates), discussed how they’ve transcended coronavirus-restrictions on live performances with... Read more
    Source: Jazz Beyond Jazz Published on: 2021-02-24
  • Snapshot: Lieber and Stoller appear on What’s My Line?
    Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller appear as the mystery guests on What’s My Line? John Daly is the host and the panelists include Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, and Vincent Price. This episode was originally... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-02-24
  • Almanac: Robert Benchley on sneezing
    “I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes,... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-02-24
  • Gary Lee-Nova: ‘Oblique Trajectories’
    A survey exhibition of the artist's work over more than four decades. The exhibition at the Burnaby Art Gallery in Burnaby, B.C., Canada, will run until April 18, 2021.... Read more
    Source: Straight|Up Published on: 2021-02-23
  • “Black Art’s” Blackout: Who’s Absent from HBO’s Survey of “Today’s Top African American Artists”?
    We haven’t reached the promised land. We’ve got a long way to go. The above marching orders, alluding to the words of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s last speech, are the last words... Read more
    Source: CultureGrrl Published on: 2021-02-23
  • Lookback: on not getting too big for your britches
    From 2010: The twin successes of Pops and The Letter have left me with an exhilarating sense of possibility, a feeling that I can do anything to which I set my mind. When you’re feeling that... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-02-23
  • Almanac: Graham Greene on the danger of changing standards
    “It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.” Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana Continue reading Almanac: Graham Greene on the danger of changing standards at About Last... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-02-23
  • Just because: Graham Greene talks about The Third Man
    Graham Greene is interviewed by Jack Mangan in an outtake from a 1950 episode of Ship’s Reporter in which he talks about The Third Man: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-02-22
  • Almanac: Graham Greene on facing reality
    “People don’t like reality. They don’t like common sense. Until age forces it on them.” Graham Greene, Loser Takes All Continue reading Almanac: Graham Greene on facing reality at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-02-22
  • The Library Is Closed
    ...and thoughts come in verse: 'The stone lion at the gate / wears a mask like mine. / This is where I used to wait / for books that bind / that... Read more
    Source: Straight|Up Published on: 2021-02-21
  • The Sleep of Dreams
    A contemporary artist visualizes an idea by the 17th-century 'father of modern philosophy.'... Read more
    Source: Straight|Up Published on: 2021-02-21
  • Clarion
    Someone’s calling, maybe me. C. C sharp? D? My scalp tightens, which makes me wonder where I am, and who, too. I’ve had this reaction before when I’ve been offered rare sounds... Read more
    Source: Out There Published on: 2021-02-20
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