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January 20, 2021 at 1:02 PM “The Nijinsky name, however, does not belong to [Vaslav] alone. In an era where static positions were the marrow of classical dance, [Bronislava] Nijinska envisioned a modernist ballet, one which saw focus shift towards the movement which connected these positions. Ultimately, she believed it was not the final posture that encapsulated the beauty of ballet, but the spaces in between.” – The Calvert Journal Tags: Art, Dance, Nijinsky, Vaslav, 01.08.21, Bronislava, Nijinska67 people like this. Like
January 15, 2021 at 4:31 PM Experts say that the majority of people do not easily fall for falsehoods. But when misinformation offers simple, casual explanations for otherwise random events, “it helps restore a sense of agency and control for many people,” says Sander van der Linden, a social psychologist at the University of Cambridge. – National Geographic Tags: Art, Ideas, Sander van der Linden, 01.08.2192 people like this. Like
January 12, 2021 at 1:02 PM “Some €45 million has been raised for the project, which was first proposed in 2014 after the city, through the government-owned company Grün Berlin, took over the park’s management. The former Spreepark, as the theme park is known, spans 56 riverside acres that are currently fenced off as old rides and amusement sites sit in various states of disrepair.” – Artnet Tags: Art, Issues, Spreepark, 01.08.21, Berlin Arts District, Grün Berlin91 people like this. Like
January 12, 2021 at 8:10 AM “Opera Australia has paid out tens of thousands of dollars in confidential settlements to musicians it sacked at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The country’s most heavily subsidised performing arts company is now preparing for a federal court battle with one of the musicians refusing to settle, alleging Opera Australia management has created a culture of ‘intimidation, bullying and antagonism’.” – Tags: Art, Music, Australia, 01.08.21136 people like this. Like
January 11, 2021 at 2:14 PM Released as part of the BA’s annual membership survey, the number of independent bookshops holding membership at the end of 2020 rose to 967 shops, up from 890 shops in 2019, 883 in 2018 and 868 in 2017. This figure marks the highest number of independent bookshops in BA membership since 2013, as the period of growth was preceded by two decades of decline. – The Bookseller Tags: Art, Words, 01.08.21107 people like this. Like
January 11, 2021 at 2:54 PM “If they were a strange sight to me, I was no less of a one to them. It was the first time that many of them had seen an ‘intellectual.’ I was being gradually drawn, you see, into the political struggle with the peasantry!” That’s Aaron Copland in 1934, reflecting upon addressing a Communist picnic in Minnesota. – Joseph Horowitz Tags: Art, Minnesota, Ajblogs, Aaron Copland, 01.08.2150 people like this. Like
January 11, 2021 at 2:55 PM This was a week when blogging-as-usual struck me as irredeemably frivolous. Trying to promulgate commentary about art and the artworld seemed fatuous, at a time when our nation’s adherence to the rule of law, reason and humane values (and even its very existence) seemed at stake. – Lee Rosenbaum Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 01.08.2158 people like this. Like
January 11, 2021 at 11:31 AM Whether or not these fever-dream images show the actual point of insurrection or are, more likely, the inevitable byproduct of twenty-first century-rioters armed with smartphones and social-media accounts, their power shouldn’t be underestimated. These pictures will now constitute a powerful folklore for a whole subculture of whacked-out, anti-establishment far-righters, the latest chapter in alt-right visual storytelling which includes the equally absurd Pepe The Frog. – Art Review Tags: Art, Visual, 01.08.21124 people like this. Like
January 11, 2021 at 10:30 AM Looks as though nostalgia for ’80s movies is driving something that looks less like the actual diverse world of the 2020s than the usual contemporary show. “‘Danny LaRusso, Italian kid from Jersey,’ as Vanity Fair’s Sonia Saraiya put it about the first two seasons, ‘is the most Japanese character on this show.'” – Los Angeles Times Tags: Art, Media, Vanity Fair, Jersey, Sonia Saraiya, Danny LaRusso, 01.08.21135 people like this. Like
January 11, 2021 at 8:00 AM In a way, The Turner Diaries shows how white supremacists carried out the insurrection – and it provides a pretty clear idea of what’s coming next. Historian Kathleen Belew says that even in the 1980s, supremacy groups “kept stacks of them, not just one copy but 15 copies in the book house of one white power terrorist group. They distributed them at paramilitary training camps. Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh carried and read and sold the book to others on the gun show circuit. And it’s ju... Tags: Art, Issues, Oklahoma City, Timothy McVeigh, Turner Diaries, United States Los Angeles, Kathleen Belew, 01.08.21149 people like this. Like
January 11, 2021 at 8:15 AM The situation under the third lockdown is, if anything, worse than in March because the freelancers don’t have anything to fall back on. “In telephone interviews this week, four theater freelancers said they had set up their own businesses to get through the pandemic; another said he was working as a delivery driver; and another said she was relying on a combination of unemployment checks and parental support.” – The New York Times Tags: Art, Theatre, 01.08.21115 people like this. Like
January 11, 2021 at 7:30 AM The lack of touring, time to sit with songs instead of performing them every night, and a ton of time in or near recording studios has made musicians remake, remix, rethink, and re-release albums even in the not-quite-year of the pandemic in Europe and the US. – The Guardian (UK) Tags: Art, Europe, Music, US, Audience, 01.08.2161 people like this. Like
January 11, 2021 at 7:45 AM During The Birds, even. The loss of the venue deeply affected Seattle’s southern neighbor. “Before it was the Music Box the building was originally called the Tacoma Theater. Built in 1890 as an opera house, all that remains today is a single stone wall.” – KING 5 Tags: Art, Media, Seattle, Tacoma, 01.08.21, Tacoma Theater Built110 people like this. Like
January 10, 2021 at 2:00 PM Thanks so flipping much, pandemic and a government that refused to get its COVID response together in time to save the arts. Owner Joon Lee decided not to renew the lease after it ended in November. It’s a serious loss: “‘What Joon was able to cultivate there in terms of how artist-forward it was, that doesn’t exist anywhere else I’ve played on the planet,’ says vocalist Sara Gazarek, whose rising star paralleled the influence of the club.” – Los Angeles Times Tags: Art, Music, Joon Lee, Sara Gazarek, Joon, 01.08.21, Los Angeles Loses Its Great Blue Whale Jazz Club148 people like this. Like
January 10, 2021 at 2:30 PM What the actual heck? Well, a lot of people opened bookshops in 2020, during the pandemic, because why not? Their jobs had evaporated, and the bookshops were a long-held dream. But in the UK’s third hard lockdown, the numbers may change again – for the far, far worse. – The Guardian (UK) Tags: Art, UK, Words, 01.08.2199 people like this. Like
January 10, 2021 at 3:00 PM Kambui Olojimi, an artist from the Brooklyn neighborhood Bedford-Stuyvesant, addresses his childhood and his block, and the idea of collective memory, in his work – especially in 177 portraits of the block president, Ms. Arline. “Initiated in grief, the series is a mourning practice that has carried Mr. Olujimi through the political and social turmoil of the last few years, opening new artistic directions for him. But it is also an experiment in memory work — an effort to convey something of th... Tags: Art, Brooklyn, Visual, Bedford Stuyvesant, 01.08.21, Kambui Olojimi, Ms Arline Initiated, Olujimi145 people like this. Like
January 10, 2021 at 12:00 PM Johnson, who was also known for her public housing project designs, became famous for her “large-scale public projects, which often involved environmental remediation. For the Mystic River State Reservation, a nature preserve in Eastern Mass., a commission she received in the 1970s, she transformed a toxic landfill into a public park. The John F. Kennedy Park along the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass., had once been an oil-soaked storage site for train cars before Ms. Johnson’s firm took it on... Tags: Art, People, Johnson, Cambridge Mass, Charles River, Carol Johnson, 01.08.21, Mystic River State Reservation, Kennedy Park88 people like this. Like
January 10, 2021 at 12:30 PM It’s a path that others could follow, if they had the courage (and the funding). “Crossing Delancey is a culturally distinctive romcom, not one that mutes down its differences in an attempt to assimilate, and is all the more enjoyable for it, whatever the audience’s ethnicity. More pickle, less vanilla.” – The Guardian (UK) Tags: Art, Media, Joan Micklin, 01.08.21121 people like this. Like
January 10, 2021 at 11:00 AM Art isn’t only for the One Percenters, even if that one percent can afford to buy a ton of multiples to go along with their laser-focused unique pieces. Despite how their allure faded after the 1970s, “Multiples have retained just enough of their ‘provocative and disorienting message,’ as Celant’s essay put it, to make them a good fit for today’s progressive causes.” But they can be still more than that. – The New York Times Tags: Art, Visual, 01.08.21, Celant70 people like this. Like
January 10, 2021 at 7:00 AM Apted’s series – the latest, 63-Up, came out in 2019 – was only one project from the director of many movies, including Gorillas in the Mist and The World Is Not Enough. But the British director referred to the Up documentaries as “the most important thing I have ever done.” Last year, he said that “The series was an attempt to do a long view of English society, … The class system needed a kick up the backside.” – The Guardian (UK) Tags: Art, People, Michael Apted, Apted, 01.08.21104 people like this. Like
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