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Join the ConversationApril 7, 2021 at 2:54 PM I have said before here that the time for talk is long past and that figuring out a way to prod real action on DEI issues is essential. This Conversation, hosted by the Community Engagement Network, is an attempt to lay groundwork for actual movement. – Doug BorwickTags: Art, Ajblogs, Community Engagement Network, 04.07.21 71 people like this. Like Savage BeautyApril 5, 2021 at 2:53 PM A generation of important Chinese composers, paradoxical beneficiaries of enforced rural relocation, wound up studying in the West. For many, Bela Bartok became a lodestar for his way of retaining the spontaneity and savage beauty of folk elements. And so they discovered a middle ground between Chinese and Western instrumental performance. – Joseph HorowitzTags: Art, Ajblogs, Béla Bartok, 04.04.21 68 people like this. Like Ashleigh Gordon Shares the Castle of our SkinsApril 4, 2021 at 2:55 PM The co-founder, Artistic/Executive Director and violist of Castle of our Skins, a collective of artists of all kinds dedicated to advancing Black artistry through music, shares the philosophy behind her leadership work furthering the contributions of Black artists. –Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 04.03.21, Ashleigh Gordon Shares the Castle 34 people like this. Like Nobel Prize: Sweet!April 1, 2021 at 2:54 PM Lucky in Manhattan to have a Japanese market nearby, and because I’m enticed by anything in a post-Pop package, I fell for Nobel’s Super Cola, three ounces for $3, a dozen or so globes of hot surprise. I told myself that I sprung for my candyphile boyfriend, but they were really for me. When artists such as Lichtenstein or Indiana (not Gary) are ripped off for the package, I grab it. – Jeff WeinsteinTags: Art, Indiana, Manhattan, Ajblogs, Gary, Lichtenstein, 04.01.21, Super Cola 50 people like this. Like Syracuse Musings: Words of Wisdom (or not) from Panelists at the Deaccession SymposiumApril 1, 2021 at 2:55 PM Here are some lessons from old-school conference speakers who acknowledged the need for progress, but defended what former Metropolitan Museum director Philippe de Montebello once called “the primacy of art” in the museum’s mission. – Lee RosenbaumTags: Art, Metropolitan Museum, Ajblogs, Philippe de Montebello, 04.01.21 65 people like this. Like Web Streaming and Book Publishing: Two Bright Spots for the Cultural Sector During COVID-19?April 1, 2021 at 2:56 PM Compared with the average annual growth rate of arts and cultural industries as a whole (+3 percent), web streaming and web publishing surged by 12 percent, in terms of the value added by those industries to the U.S. economy. The book and software publishing industry grew by over 7 percent. In both cases, we might expect to see sustained if not accelerated growth when the 2020 numbers are released next year. – Sunil IyengarTags: Art, Ajblogs, 04.01.21 62 people like this. Like Notes on Outsiders: Carl Weissner’s German Essays and ReportageMarch 31, 2021 at 2:55 PM To get the drift of Aufzeichnungen über Aussenseiter, I’ve been typing pieces of text into Google Translate. It’s a helluva time-consuming job, but it’s more than worth the effort. It’s just obvious how classy and swinging the whole thing is! Herewith, an excerpt: “Buk Sings His Ass Off.” – Jan HermanTags: Art, Ajblogs, Carl Weissner, 03.30.21 97 people like this. Like Sophie Fuller Talks Women ComposersMarch 30, 2021 at 2:54 PM A Programme Leader at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance in London speaks about the inspiration of women who write music. – Aaron DworkinTags: Art, London, Ajblogs, 03.27.21, Sophie Fuller, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music Dance 101 people like this. Like Obtuse in Syracuse: How the University’s Deaccession Symposium Got Compromised by Conflicts of InterestMarch 30, 2021 at 2:55 PM Although last week’s Syracuse Symposium was nominally about Deaccessioning After 2020, it was mostly focused on the new museum imperative — advancing DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Access) by any means possible, even at the cost of dismantling, monetizing and redefining the “permanent” collection to further those sociopolitical goals. – Lee RosenbaumTags: Art, Syracuse, Ajblogs, 03.26.21 123 people like this. Like The STEEP Road BackMarch 25, 2021 at 2:55 PM The many threats and threads around reopening social spaces for live performance can easily blur together. Focused problem-solving and readiness require that we tease them apart. One way to do so might be the age-old approach to environmental scanning: the acronym STEEP. – Andrew TaylorTags: Art, Ajblogs, 03.25.21 127 people like this. Like Clive Gillinson Talks Leadership in a Digital WorldMarch 22, 2021 at 2:56 PM The Executive & Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall shares the importance of the digital landscape and leadership teams. – Aaron DworkinTags: Art, Ajblogs, Carnegie Hall, Clive Gillinson, Digital World, 03.20.21 147 people like this. Like Rare Book Collecting: Connecting Brion Gysin and Paul-Armand GetteMarch 22, 2021 at 2:58 PM To rate collectors by the use they make of their collections rather than simply by completeness or the rarity and excellence of individual items makes great sense. – Jan HermanTags: Art, Ajblogs, Brion Gysin, 03.22.21, Paul Armand Gette 94 people like this. Like What Should Be on the Syracuse Symposium’s Agenda: The Urgent Need for Museum Deaccession RegulationsMarch 18, 2021 at 2:54 PM Museum professionals have instinctively recoiled at the thought of government interference in their activities, insisting that they can police themselves. But that hasn’t worked out too well when it comes to preventing misguided museum officials from converting works that rightly should remain in the public’s patrimony into easy money. – Lee RosenbaumTags: Art, Ajblogs, 03.18.21 79 people like this. Like Is it possible to mourn James Levine?March 18, 2021 at 2:55 PM Yes, but with an enormous asterisk.May 4, 2011. If only it had stopped there. – David Patrick StearnsTags: Art, Ajblogs, James Levine, 03.17.21 68 people like this. Like AAMD’s Deaccession Dilemma (& the Met’s Equivocations)March 15, 2021 at 2:55 PM Is the “slippery slope” on the verge of becoming even more treacherous? In conversations with its members this week, the Association of Art Museum Directors discussed whether the organization should consider an indefinite extension of the two-year relaxation of its time-honored deaccession guidelines, which had prohibited the use of art proceeds for anything other than acquisitions. – Lee RosenbaumTags: Art, Ajblogs, Association of Art Museum Directors, AAMD, 03.15.21 66 people like this. Like Cue the Regulators! Met’s Deaccession Regression Attracts the Critical Eye of NYS Attorney General’s OfficeMarch 8, 2021 at 2:55 PM The Metropolitan Museum’s adoption of the Association of Art Museum Directors’ relaxed deaccession standards, driven by the financial challenges of the pandemic, has caught the attention of at least one official in the New York Attorney General’s Office. – Lee RosenbaumTags: Art, Metropolitan Museum, Ajblogs, Association of Art Museum Directors, New York Attorney General 's Office, 03.05.21 111 people like this. Like Pandemic Polemics: Metropolitan Museum’s Off-Key NPR Message vs. Cleveland’s Harmonious Storage ShowMarch 1, 2021 at 2:55 PM The Met’s premature revelation that it might take advantage of the AAMD’s relaxed deaccession standards, selling art to pay for “care of the collection,” was an object lesson in how not to roll out a controversial, temporary policy change. A palate-cleansing corrective to that unappetizing situation can be found in Stories from Storage, a current show at the Cleveland Museum of Art. – Lee RosenbaumTags: Art, Cleveland, Ajblogs, Cleveland Museum of Art, AAMD, 03.01.21, NPR Message 107 people like this. Like Jazz beats the virus onlineFebruary 24, 2021 at 2:53 PM Chicago presenters of jazz and new music, and journalists from Madrid to the Bay Area, vocalist Kurt Elling, trumpeter Orbert Davis and pianist Lafayette Gilchrist discussed how they’ve transcended coronavirus-restrictions on live performances in two Zoom panels I moderated last week. – Howard MandelTags: Art, Chicago, Madrid, Bay Area, Ajblogs, Kurt Elling, Orbert Davis, Lafayette Gilchrist, 02.24.21 50 people like this. Like Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dies at 101; His Pictures of a Gone World RemainFebruary 24, 2021 at 2:54 PM A literary era passes. It was already past, yet it still has influence. My account is minimal in the scheme of things but here ‘tiz anyhow, excerpted from My Adventures in Fugitive Litrichur. – Jan HermanTags: Art, Ajblogs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 02.24.21 88 people like this. Like The Relativity SwitchFebruary 24, 2021 at 2:55 PM This story may sound like a metaphor. But it’s actually a case-in-point. – Andrew TaylorTags: Art, Ajblogs, 02.24.21 76 people like this. Like “Black Art’s” Blackout: Who’s Absent from HBO’s Survey of “Today’s Top African American Artists”?February 23, 2021 at 2:55 PM Although it gives us fascinating inside-the-studio glimpses of several important artists at work, Black Art: In the Absence of Light insufficiently illuminates the depth and breadth of work African-American artists are producing today. – Lee RosenbaumTags: Art, Hbo, Ajblogs, 02.23.21 39 people like this. Like ClarionFebruary 22, 2021 at 2:55 PM Someone’s calling, maybe me. C. C sharp? D? My scalp tightens, which makes me wonder where I am, and who, too. But this voice today is a shell’s, of a conch from a Pyrenees cave, assigned as Paleolithic, 17,000 years old. – Jeff WeinsteinTags: Art, Ajblogs, 02.20.21 29 people like this. Like Jeff Alexander Shares the Importance of Live Orchestral MusicFebruary 22, 2021 at 2:54 PM The President of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra speaks about the importance of live, in-person concerts and the day-to-day leadership of a major symphony orchestra. – nTags: Art, Ajblogs, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 02.20.21, Jeff Alexander Shares the Importance 32 people like this. Like The Five Flavors of StrategyFebruary 17, 2021 at 2:55 PM As the chaos and confusion of the global pandemic shows distant glimpses of something less chaotic, the question of “strategy” is emerging once again. Now that arts organizations are making space to imagine the “next normal,” it’s worth remembering what “strategy” actually is and does. – Andrew TaylorTags: Art, Ajblogs, 02.17.21 80 people like this. Like Reimagine YourselfFebruary 16, 2021 at 2:55 PM The failure to lift our eyes and see that our core work can and should be connecting people with art is the principal source of the problems we have experienced over the last 20-30 years. – Doug BorwickTags: Art, Ajblogs, 02.16.21 30 people like this. Like Liz Lerman Talks Movement & DiscordFebruary 15, 2021 at 2:55 PM The choreographer, performer, writer, educator, and speaker shares her creative process and the connection between movement and discord. – Aaron DworkinTags: Art, Ajblogs, Liz Lerman, 02.13.21 72 people like this. Like How Do You Play a Flower Pot?February 10, 2021 at 2:53 PM What makes washtubs sound best? How about coffee cans? For the answers, check out Lou Harrison’s instructions for his Concerto for Violin and Percussion. So far as I am aware, it is the most memorable, most original violin concerto by any American. It also creates a visual spectacle ideal for COVID-era streamed performances. – Joseph HorowitzTags: Art, Ajblogs, Lou Harrison, 02.10.21 57 people like this. Like David Stull Discusses Acquiring Opus 3February 8, 2021 at 2:54 PM The president of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music speaks about the school’s historic acquisition of Opus 3 Artists. – Aaron DworkinTags: Art, Ajblogs, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, David Stull, 02.06.21 70 people like this. Like Can a New LACMA Rise from the Rubble? Quaffing Michael Govan’s Kool-AidFebruary 8, 2021 at 2:55 PM The doubts engendered in me by the shifting ground (related to the proximity to the La Brea Tar Pits) under the cranes being used for construction of LACMA’s new Geffen Galleries caused me to reflect back on Govan’s spotty track record for delivering on his ambitious, provocative proposals. – Lee RosenbaumTags: Art, Ajblogs, LACMA, Govan, Michael Govan, 02.05.21 85 people like this. Like Build Back BetterFebruary 4, 2021 at 2:55 PM At this point I would implore arts organizations not to return to pre-pandemic practices with nothing more than modest tweaks. This is a time for serious reconfiguring. So let me suggest three categories for new or significantly expanded approaches. – Doug BorwickTags: Art, Ajblogs, 02.03.21 74 people like this. Like |
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