“‘Most Chinese grew up thinking Tagore was mild and romantic, all stars, gardens and flowers,’ Mr. Feng said in a recent interview in his Beijing studio. ‘So with my translation, many people felt like their Tagore, the Tagore from their childhood textbooks, had been challenged.'”
Tag: 02.07.16
Let’s Talk About Problems With The Jazz Solo Grammy
“The heroic stand-alone solo is an interesting lens for how jazz is popularly understood, but not necessarily how it is practiced. Jazz is about context and collaboration; it really is about bands. (For that reason, it’s a good thing that most of the solos in this year’s crop come from records made by working bands.) If the way you listen to jazz is to wait for the sustained passage of individual heroism, you may be missing a lot.”
Top AJBlogs Posts For 02.07.16
It is Superbowl Sunday in the United States. The Superbowl is an event in which the top two National Football League teams play one another for the league championship. Tickets to the game sell for… … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2016-02-07
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2016-02-07
Five ArtsJournal Stories You Shouldn’t Miss This Week
Ah, an old-fashioned press-banning. Feels like the good old days. Of the 162 stories we collected this week, a few memes emerged: It was the week of artistic directors in dance. First, Benjamin Millepied said he would be leaving…… read more
AJBlog: DiacriticalPublished 2016-02-07
Ah, an old-fashioned press-banning. Feels like the good old days. Of the 162 stories we collected this week, a few memes emerged: It was the week of artistic directors in dance. First, Benjamin Millepied said he would be leaving…… read more
AJBlog: DiacriticalPublished 2016-02-07
Dancing a Fairytale, Its Joys and Tribulations
The New York City Ballet premieres Justin Peck’s new ballet and offers works by Thatcher, Binet, Schumacher, and Wheeldon. Justin Peck’s The Most Incredible Thing. Sterling Hyltin and Taylor Stanley dance in front of the… … read more
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2016-02-06
The New York City Ballet premieres Justin Peck’s new ballet and offers works by Thatcher, Binet, Schumacher, and Wheeldon. Justin Peck’s The Most Incredible Thing. Sterling Hyltin and Taylor Stanley dance in front of the… … read more
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2016-02-06
Dynamic pricing and price discrimination are not the same thing
But a recent article in The Economist (!) confuses the matter. Dynamic pricing occurs when sellers adjust prices on a frequent basis to account for varying shifts in demand, or limitations in supply. Uber raises… … read more
AJBlog: For What it’s WorthPublished 2016-02-06
But a recent article in The Economist (!) confuses the matter. Dynamic pricing occurs when sellers adjust prices on a frequent basis to account for varying shifts in demand, or limitations in supply. Uber raises… … read more
AJBlog: For What it’s WorthPublished 2016-02-06
Let the people decide
Here are four links, to some fabulous music. Even if you don’t read further in this post, even if you just follow listen to what I’m linking here, I’ll be happy. Sarah Vaughan,stupendously… … read more
AJBlog: SandowPublished 2016-02-05
Here are four links, to some fabulous music. Even if you don’t read further in this post, even if you just follow listen to what I’m linking here, I’ll be happy. Sarah Vaughan,stupendously… … read more
AJBlog: SandowPublished 2016-02-05
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Members Of Parliament Demand That Museum’s Collection Not Be Moved To London
“Not a single person on the board of trustees has links to Bradford, or indeed the wider region. We cannot have decisions about our city and our region being made by the ‘great and the good’ in London.”
Making Comics More Real, Or At Least More 21st Century
“The world of comics in 2016 resembles the music business in 1977-1980, when agile indie labels such as Rough Trade and Factory outmanoeuvred the major record companies and the majors were forced to respond.”