“Mari Carmen Ramírez, the curator of Latin American art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, … wants to shake up the politics of art history, to prove that Latin American art, far from being derivative, has had its own identity, its own breakthroughs.”
Tag: 01.18.12
Has Edgar Allan Poe’s Toaster Disappeared?
Every year for decades, on Poe’s birthday, an unknown man would leave three roses and half a bottle of cognac on the author’s Baltimore grave. But the “Poe Toaster” hasn’t turned up since 2009, and aficionados are about to declare the tradition over.
New York City Opera Reaches Tentative Agreement With One Union
The troubled company, which derailed preparations for a very truncated season by locking out its unionized workers, has settled on terms of a contract with Local 802 of the orchestral musicians’ union. The more contentious negotiations with AGMA, which represents singers and some backstage staff, are ongoing.
Arab Spring Jump-Starts Market For Arab Art
“The perception of Arab art has changed. Before the uprisings people either saw it as exotic and innocuous or steeped in the Islamic tradition; artists were wary of showing work that might be seen as too political. But now there’s an appetite to understand the context of the uprisings, and there’s a real flourishing of work that’s more edgy.”
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