David Jays: “Two decades on, Croce appears stranded on the wrong side of history. Artists bringing personal histories to the table are now mainstream. You see ‘victim art’ in reality TV and verbatim theatre; in the work of oversharing visual artists like Tracey Emin and Ryan Trecartin; and, increasingly, you see it in dance, where an immaculate body and blank-slate persona are no longer the invariable starting point.”
Tag: 01.08.15
Study: Reading Aloud To Children Encourages Them To Read Alone
“The finding about reading aloud to children long after toddlerhood may come as a surprise to some parents who read books to children at bedtime when they were very young but then tapered off.”
Detroit Institute Of Arts Director To Retire
Graham “Beal’s retirement comes after an extraordinarily stressful 18 months during which the DIA found itself an unwitting pawn in the city’s bankruptcy saga.”
What Will Happen To The New Generation Of Private Museums When Their Founders Die?
“As also happened during the Gilded Age, critics today have raised questions about these new museums’ devotion to their own communities, whether regarding accessibility or admission fees. But what has not been examined so thoroughly is what will happen to these new institutions on the death of the founder or the decline in their collecting activity.”
U.S. Sends Poland An Extradition Request For Roman Polanski
“Justice ministry spokesman Mateusz Martyniuk said that the Polish statute of limitations (preventing prosecutions in cases where a number of years have lapsed since the crime) ‘does not apply to US requests,’ meaning that Polanski could yet be sent back to the US.”
Bass-Baritone John Carol Case, 89
“He first came to notice in 1948 when he sang in Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on Christmas Carols under the composer’s direction” and went on to become one of RVW’s most frequent collaborators.