“A small but growing number of American Indian musicians are embracing classical music. Drawing as much from European composers as traditional American Indian harvest songs, the music and the musicians are getting noticed in concert halls and on reservations.”
Tag: 01.01.09
Archaeologist To Publicly Spank The Met Over Antiquities
“Colin Renfrew, a British archaeologist who is an authority on the trade in looted antiquities,” is preparing “to violate the museum world’s unwritten rules of politesse” by giving a lecture titled “Combating the Illicit Antiquities Trade: The 1970 Rule as a Turning Point (or How the Metropolitan Museum Lags Behind the Getty).”
Is Reconstructing The Kaiser’s Palace Really A Good Idea?
The 18th-century Hohenzollern Stadtschloss in Berlin was “a hulking, unlovable pile. Even the emperors didn’t want to live there.” Damaged in WWII, the Schloss was torn down by the East German government and replaced with the Palace of the Republic, which was in turn torn down after German reunification. Now the government wants to rebuild the Schloss, and not everyone likes the idea.