“When Annie Dillard wrote Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, she didn’t think anyone would want to read a memoir by a ‘Virginia housewife.’ So she left her domestic life out of the book – and turned her surroundings into a wilderness.”
Tag: 02.05.15
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.05.15
Too Many Artists Or Not Enough Value?
AJBlog: diacritical Published 2015-02-05
Twixt
AJBlog: Infinite CurvesPublished 2015-02-05
“Deep, Strong Opinions”: Met Director Tom Campbell’s Remembrances of Curator Walter Liedtke
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-02-05
Music Schools, in Transition…
AJBlog: State of the Art Published 2015-02-05
Odds And Ends: Sloane On Balliett, Reilly On Haden
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-02-05
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Diary From Gitmo (Unless You Were In Any Doubt As To What’s Happening There)
“Thirteen years after it opened, the literature on the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay has become extensive. There are works of journalism, collections of documents, scholarly analyses, novels and some searing memoirs, such as those by the former detainees Ahmed Errachidi and Moazzam Begg. But there has never been a book quite like this: an account by a prisoner, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, of his abduction, rendition and sustained torture, composed inside Guantanamo’s concentric layers of concrete and razor wire.”
Did Science REALLY Figure Out What Makes Male Dancing Sexy? (Provenance Of An Internet Story)
“Certain science stories seem to come out like cicadas, swarming the Internet for a month or two before retreating underground for several years until the next cycle of coverage begins.”
New Edinburgh Festival Director Warns That Festival’s Status Is In Jeopardy
Fergus Linehan has taken charge at a time of uncertainty over budgets, with a bid for an extra £1.73 million for the next three years rejected by Creative Scotland and the possibility of cuts to its grant from Edinburgh City Council. The EIF’s funding has been largely static for the past eight years, which, arguably means a series of cuts, considering inflation and rising costs.”
Wary Of Terrorism, Paris Cuts Action Movie Filming
“Fearing that actors could be mistaken for police – and chase scenes confused for the real thing – Paris is sharply restricting filming of action movies in the city that been the stage for some of film’s most memorable high-octane sequences.”
14 Museums Band Together To Build American Art Database
“The 14 partners will meet Wednesday and Thursday at Smithsonian American Art Museum to begin the process of building the database. While the American Art Museum has already converted its data to LOD, many of its partners are just beginning.”
Met Museum Curator Walter Liedtke Killed In NY Train Crash
“[He] served for 35 years as a curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was a renowned scholar on Vermeer and the Delft School.”
William Forsyth Signs On With Paris Opera Ballet
“In a major coup, the Paris Opera Ballet has secured one of the dance worlds biggest names, William Forsythe, as the company’s associate choreographer.”
Lincoln Center’s Resident Companies Are Collaborating Instead Of Fighting, For Once
“Institutions that once competed, sometimes bitterly, over audiences, resources and donors are increasingly teaming up in ways both large and small.”