“I remember the moment I went from being an admired, multi-award-winning debut picture book author to a largely unknown, ignored, and even pitied self-published author. In the past two years I have published sixteen books for young readers, but my books are not eligible for review in the major outlets, public libraries refuse to acquire them for their collections, and major awards are no longer a possibility.”
Tag: 02.01.16
Life Lessons From Goethe (Yes, Really)
“For the modernists, being spiritually sick was a condition of intellectual respectability, and T. S. Eliot wrote that ‘there is something artificial and even priggish about Goethe’s healthiness.’ … The key to Goethe is that the spiritual ‘healthiness’ so disliked by Eliot was not that of a man with a perfect constitution but that of a recovered invalid.”
The 100 Jokes That Shaped Modern American Comedy
From Charlie Chaplin to Burns and Allen to Mae West to Redd Foxx to What’s Opera, Doc? to Phylllis Diller to Lily Tomlin’s Ernestine to Carol Burnett’s Went With the Wind to Richard Pryor to Seinfeld to The Simpsons to the greatest film comedy ever made …
The Makers Of ‘Airplane!’ Tell Where They Found All Those Laugh Lines
A Q&A with Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers. who insist that they lifted many lines – including “Surely you can’t be serious” and “We need somebody who can not only fly this plane, but who didn’t have fish for dinner” – directly from old dramatic movies.
Art Fund Says It Will Stop Raising Money To Keep Works In Britain Unless UK Reforms Export Licensing
“This follows the debacle that ensued when the foreign buyer of a £35m work by Rembrandt, Portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet (1657), withdrew an export licence application when the Art Fund decided to mount a public campaign to buy the picture for Wales.”
It’s A Bosch! Newly-Authenticated Painting Had Lain In Storage In Kansas City
The Temptation of St. Anthony a 10-by-15-inch oil-on-wood panel that was probably part of a triptych, was acquired by the Nelson-Atkins Museum in 1935, where it was last on display in 2003.
Justin Peck Makes His Largest Dance Yet – And His First Story Ballet
The Most Incredible Thing, based on a Hans Christian Andersen tale, has a new score by Bryce Dessner and a cast of 56.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.01.16
Local, state, federal: public funding for the arts in the U.S.
At the Atlantic, Andy Horwitz asks ‘Who should pay for the arts in America?‘ He is specifically asking about nonprofit arts, whose funding comes from paying customers, donors and other sponsors, and the public sector. … read more
AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2016-02-01
Miles To Go: The Met Breuer’s Unspoken Task
The Metropolitan Museum put on a show for the press last week at a briefing on the Met Breuer. It took place, oddly (for the Met) in a black gallery in the main museum building and … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2016-02-01
Boulez
Pierre Boulez’s passing last month brought back memories of what a giant he was in his prime. He certainly gave the generations that followed a complex heritage. I really can’t imagine what it must have … read more
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2016-02-01
Goodbye to All That (Almost)
The Trisha Brown Dance Company presents three of Brown’s proscenium works in New York for the last time. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-02-01
Journalism as ‘The Poetry of Fact’
At the Chicago Sun-Times I watched some great wordsmiths up close. Roger Ebert wrote with an ease that seemed miraculous. His profiles flowed like swift streams. David Elliott was another. His reviews had the density … read more
AJBlog: Straight|Up Published 2016-02-01
In two and a half months …
Here’s something I’ve mentioned before. But now it’s time to get serious. My reemergence as s composer is just two and a half months away, with an evening of my work on April 14, … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-02-01
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A Greek Play Cancelled Due To Protests Gets One Final Performance
“On Thursday, the theater’s artistic director canceled the last four performances of the play, saying in a statement that it had caused ‘more pain than room for thought’ and had led to ‘threats,’ without disclosing further details.”
An Artist Sketches Other Artists Into The Canon
“‘What Rebecca’s doing in a very beautiful, subtle way is saying: Look, here’s all these artists who are working right now in Los Angeles,’ says Grant. ‘Do you know them? They want to meet you. They want their work to be known in the public realm and considered on equal footing with male peers.'”