Joan Mondale, Vice President’s Wife and Arts Champion, Dead at 83

“In Washington and around the country, Mrs. Mondale became known as a tireless advocate for the cultivation of the arts. … She traveled around the country attending museum exhibitions, dedicating new works of art and otherwise directing national attention on artists, noted or undiscovered, whom she admired.”

Riccardo Muti to Stay With Chicago Symphony Until 2020

“Muti has honed these winter season announcements into a sort of high-wire performance art. It is something he clearly enjoys and always proves entertaining for the assembled press, if nerve-wracking for CSO staff who never know what the irrepressible maestro is going to say next.”

Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.03.14

Reporting, the Digital Age, and the Disappearing Middle Class
Source: CultureCrash | Published on 2014-02-03

More On Damage To Egypt’s Heritage
Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2014-02-03

Curator Barry Bergdoll Explains MoMA’s “Frank Lloyd Wright and the City”
Source: CultureGrrl | Published on 2014-02-03

Seahawks Sweat-Soda (a Partial Repost)
Source: Out There | Published on 2014-02-03

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As We Have Access To All Our Artistic History, Lines Between Past And Present Dissolve

“Suddenly we find ourselves living in an online realm where the old is just as easy to consume as the new. We’re approaching an odd sort of asymptote, as our past gets closer and closer to the present and the line separating our now from our then dissolves.”