Guillermo Del Toro at LACMA
I must admit to being the kind of museum-goer instinctively suspicious of exhibits about popular culture. I say this as someone who loves pop culture and spends most of his life there. But these … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2016-08-31
From Private Delectation to Public Display: The Prado’s Once Hidden Nudes Flaunted at the Clark
The seemingly robust attendance (figures not yet available) at the Clark Art Institute’s current summer extravaganza — Splendor, Myth and Vision: Nudes from the Prado (to Oct. 10) — runs counter to Robin Pogrebin’s assertion in the NY Times … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-08-31
Explosion of harps
So, yesterday I blogged about how complex Wagner’s orchestration is in Götterdämmerung. Far more complex than it is in earlier Ring operas (apart from the last part of Siegfried). Today, a quirky orchestral detail. So quirky. Weird! … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-08-31
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