Art
Posts filtered by tags: Ajblogs[x]
19h ago ( March 19, 2019 at 2:55 PM ) Having heard Luigi Brugnaro, Mayor of Venice, expound on Tintoretto’s “values” during yesterday’s livestream of the National Gallery of Art’s press preview for the Venetian artist’s first full-scale retrospective in America, I’m convinced that museums need to lay down some content guidelines (especially for non-museum professionals) to discourage pronouncements that are inappropriate for exhibition openings.” – Lee Rosenbaum Tags: Art, America, Venice, National Gallery, Ajblogs, 03.20.19, Mars Kaywin Feldman, Luigi Brugnaro Mayor68 people like this. Like
19h ago ( March 19, 2019 at 2:57 PM ) I recently had the opportunity to engage with Lyz Crane of ArtPlace America in a discussion about creative placemaking and community engagement. In the course of that discussion she shared some resources that ArtPlace has made available that can be of considerable benefit to anyone involved in community engagement. – Doug Borwick Tags: Art, Ajblogs, ArtPlace America, Lyz Crane, 03.20.19, ArtPlace America Engagement Resources92 people like this. Like
March 18, 2019 at 2:55 PM Keith Patchel, a New York-based composer and producer, has created a free online/mobile application called Plinkout, which he is touting as “the easiest way to teach anyone,” especially kids, how to play an instrument as well as how to learn “the core cognitive ideas of music.” – Jan Herman Tags: Art, New York, Ajblogs, Keith Patchel, 03.18.19, Patchel95 people like this. Like
March 18, 2019 at 2:56 PM Is it mere coincidence that First Lady Melania Trump tweeted a shoutout to the National Endowment for the Arts on the same day that her husband released a FY2020 budget proposal that would eliminate the NEA and NEH? – Lee Rosenbaum Tags: Art, Nea, Ajblogs, Trump, Melania Trump, National Endowment for the Arts, 03.18.19103 people like this. Like
March 18, 2019 at 2:57 PM I’ve been away for a few weeks, but I don’t want you to miss notice of an excellent exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum: The Lure of Dresden: Bellotto at the Court of Saxony, which runs until Apr. 28. – Judith H. Dobrzynski Tags: Art, Dresden, Ajblogs, Saxony, Kimbell, 03.18.1966 people like this. Like
March 18, 2019 at 2:58 PM The Theme of the 2019 Summit, which took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was Mobile Minds: Culture, Knowledge and Change. And the panel on which I spoke was listed as a provocation called: Actors in Change. Below is a transcript of my remarks. – Diane Ragsdale Tags: Art, Ajblogs, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, 03.17.19101 people like this. Like
March 14, 2019 at 2:56 PM Philipp Gerschlauer, David Fiuczunski: MikroJazz! (Rare Noise Records)This exploratory venture is subtitled, “Neue Expressionistiche Music,” and the music is, indeed, expressionistic. Ears accustomed to conventional tuning may initially find the microtonal approach difficult to absorb. However, after a hearing or two the microtonality begins to move beyond exoticism, and a listener accepts that the Western equal-tempered scale does not have to be accepted as gospel. – Doug Ramsey Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 03.14.19, Philipp Gerschlauer David Fiuczunski79 people like this. Like
March 13, 2019 at 2:55 PM Chucho Valdés, Jazz Batá 2 (Mack Avenue)Valdés’s Jazz Batá was considered a departure into the avant-garde when he made it in 1972. Nearly half a century later, the follow-up finds him as adventurous as ever, heading a quartet that concentrates on mastery of the batá tradition of West Africa. – Doug Ramsey Tags: Art, West Africa, Ajblogs, Chucho Valdés, 03.13.19, Chucho Valdés Jazz Batá, Mack Avenue Valdés, Jazz Batá71 people like this. Like
March 13, 2019 at 2:57 PM The Rinzai Zen master Ikkyū Sojun (1394-1481) was a poet, musician, artist, and rebel. He led a life of whoring and drinking. His poems — “often erotic, argumentative, contradictory, judgmental, self-doubting, and occasionally shaded with guilt” — are still as startling as the day they were written. – Jan Herman Tags: Art, Turkey, Ajblogs, 03.13.1958 people like this. Like
March 12, 2019 at 2:56 PM Daniel Szabo, Visionary (Fuzzy Music)Szabo’s work reflects influences of jazz, classical and modern European music. But more striking is that the music has coherence and — for lack of a more exact term — a distinct personality. – Doug Ramsey Tags: Art, Ajblogs, Szabo, Daniel Szabo, 03.12.19103 people like this. Like
March 12, 2019 at 2:58 PM Aaron Shulman’s collective biography of the Spanish Panero family, The Age of Disenchanments — just out from Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins — has a cast of dramatic characters that is nothing less than stunning. – Jan Herman Tags: Art, Harpercollins, Ajblogs, Panero, Shulman, Aaron Shulman, 03.12.19102 people like this. Like
March 11, 2019 at 2:58 PM I’ve found strikingly few resources available in any media about the craft, practice, and management of arts organizations in the live performing arts (beyond the usual-suspect books). So I’ve started a series of video interviews with performing arts professionals. First up is Pamela Tatge, who took the reins at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in 2016. – Andrew Taylor Tags: Art, Ajblogs, Jacob, Pamela Tatge, 03.11.19141 people like this. Like
March 11, 2019 at 2:54 PM Dominic Miller: Absinthe (ECM)Abetted by producer Manfred Eicher’s canny guidance and ECM’s flawless sound and studio presence, Miller draws on inspiration from painters of France’s impressionist period, delivering power and subtlety in equal measure. – Doug Ramsey Tags: Art, France, Miller, Ajblogs, ECM, Manfred Eicher, 03.10.19, Dominic Miller102 people like this. Like
March 11, 2019 at 2:56 PM It’s not a real iguanodon tooth, I don’t think. Though in a story about how to interpret the material world and humanity’s place within it, identification is an unusually fraught subject. – David Jays Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 03.10.19145 people like this. Like
March 10, 2019 at 12:15 PM Stuart Murphy isn’t hiring consultants, just making immediate change at the English National Opera. – Greg Sandow Tags: Art, Stuart Murphy, Ajblogs, 03.08.1999 people like this. Like
March 10, 2019 at 11:45 AM “We come to know the choreography’s codes, if not always certain what they conceal.” – Deborah Jowitt Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 03.09.19105 people like this. Like
March 7, 2019 at 2:55 PM The power and imagination in his composing and arranging have made Ed Partyka a major contributor to the European big band scene. The Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra’s two most recent albums reflect a distinct musical personality and, often, his relaxed and refreshing approach to serious music. – Doug Ramsey Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 03.07.19, Ed Partyka, The Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra105 people like this. Like
March 6, 2019 at 2:55 PM Dear SFMOMA and Sotheby’s: Have you no shame?It’s bad enough for a museum to decide it no longer wants a work that it had specifically requested from its owner. It’s much worse when that owner is the artist himself. How will future potential donors regard such caprices? – Lee Rosenbaum Tags: Art, Ajblogs, Sotheby, SFMOMA, 03.06.19, Rothko Gave142 people like this. Like
March 6, 2019 at 2:57 PM I began pondering issues related to community engagement almost 30 years ago. What has become clear to me is that the economic pressures faced by institutions presenting Eurocentric art forms are, throughout the world, forcing greater attention on spreading the reach of those arts. Community engagement is, to my mind, the best available means of doing so. – Doug Borwick Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 03.07.19124 people like this. Like
March 5, 2019 at 2:55 PM In Luchino Visconti’s magnificent four-hour film Ludwig, the king is ingeniously cast as an embodiment of the Wagnerian pariah. Is the film a credible re-enactment of history? In writing about Visconti’s mega bio-pic for the current Wagner Journal, I felt the need to narrate my own version of events. – Joe Horowitz Tags: Art, Ajblogs, Wagner, Visconti, Ludwig, Luchino Visconti, Wagner Journal131 people like this. Like
March 5, 2019 at 2:57 PM What museum director would choose to sell from his institution “an important work completed at the apex of Rothko’s artistic powers, … one of just 19 paintings completed by the artist in 1960” — a year that marked “a critical juncture in the iconic Abstract Expressionist’s career”? – Lee Rosenbaum Tags: Art, Ajblogs, Rothko, SFMOMA, 03.05.19, Wroth Over Rothko112 people like this. Like
March 4, 2019 at 2:56 PM The obituaries for André Previn were respectful, even admiring, in a way that they wouldn’t have been had he died a quarter-century ago. It took a very long time for Previn to be fully accepted by the classical-music establishment, … – Terry Teachout Tags: Art, Ajblogs, Andre Previn, Previn, 03.04.1974 people like this. Like
March 3, 2019 at 12:14 PM Has any artistic movement since been as all-encompassing as the counterculture of the 1960s? – Jan Herman Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 03.01.1985 people like this. Like
February 28, 2019 at 2:55 PM Bill Mays Trio Live At COTAPianist Mays recently reassembled his trio for a concert and their first CD release in more than ten years. Mays, bassist Martin Wind and drummer Matt Wilson came together in a live performance at last Fall’s COTA (Celebration Of The Arts) festival in the Poconos. – Doug Ramsey Tags: Art, Ajblogs, Mays, Cota, Matt Wilson, Bill Mays, Martin Wind, 02.28.1968 people like this. Like
February 28, 2019 at 2:56 PM In interviews, I found Previn bemused by the difficulty that critics, and sometimes his fellow musicians, encountered when they tried to strike a balance in considering his variegated musical personas.Gitler was an invaluable chronicler of the crucial years when jazz made the transition from the swing era into bebop and a model of clarity. – Doug Ramsey Tags: Art, Ajblogs, Andre Previn, Previn, Gitler, 02.28.19140 people like this. Like
February 27, 2019 at 2:55 PM Ned Bennett’s galvanic production for English Touring Theatre and Stratford East sets Peter Shaffer’s play at the time of the 1973 premiere, and the production’s props assemble like a toolkit of the 1970s and its discontents. So what’s in the 1970s toolkit? – David Jays Tags: Art, Ajblogs, Peter Shaffer, Ned Bennett, 02.27.19, Stratford East70 people like this. Like
February 26, 2019 at 2:56 PM Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Co. February 22 & 23The wall to our right is mirrored; a trio can become a sextet, a duet a foursome. The wood floor — golden brown, unmarred, and glowing — plays a starring role. It all but invites a dancer to rest on it. Or fall to it, roll across it, and spring back up and into the arms of a colleague in one seamless maneuver. – Deborah Jowitt Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 02.26.19, Bill Young Colleen Thomas92 people like this. Like
|
Filters
show more filters |
