Now this is service journalism! First of the paper’s four suggestions is “Set a Time Limit and Eat Before You Go”; the last is “Consider a Private Guide.” These suggestions were offered by the founder of a company that provides patrons with private guides for museums.
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Fort Worth Opera Fires Its General Director
Scott Cantrell writes: “By any measure, Woods has transformed Fort Worth Opera from a struggling local company to one attracting national and even international attention for creative boldness and increasingly sophisticated productions.” FWO board chair Mike Martinez told Cantrell, “To be able to focus on development, business management, fundraising beyond Tarrant Country or North Texas – we just need somebody else in that regard.”
Naked Ladies Are Back: Playboy Ends Its Nudity-Free Experiment After A Year
Chief creative officer Cooper Hefner: “Nudity was never the problem because nudity isn’t a problem. Today we’re taking our identity back and reclaiming who we are.”
San Antonio Symphony Hacked, Staffers’ Data Compromised
The hackers stole names, addresses, W-2 forms and other information for about 250 full- and part-time employees.
Merce Cunningham Is Now Fodder For Art Museums
“No choreographer in history has so naturally prompted museum exhibitions as Merce Cunningham. For more than 65 years, his form of radical dance theater was a vehicle for historic artistic experimentation, with brave breakthroughs of color, idiom, content.” Alastair Macaulay visit the new (and large) Merce exhibit at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Chinese Curators Of Anselm Kiefer Show Are Fighting With His Dealers
Anselm Kiefer: Coagulation was organized by the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, where it ran at the end of last year as part of a four-city China tour. Kiefer himself says that the exhibition is happening without his consent, and the galleries that represent him are objecting as well; the show’s (German) chief curator calls this an attack on her curatorial freedom and says that commerical interests are trying to interfere.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.14.17
Communities as Resources
Too often (far, far too often), work that is thought of as engagement work views the arts organization or arts professional as the exclusive bearer of resources. … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2017-02-14
Merce in Nancy
CCN – Ballet de Lorraine presents three works from its repertory at the Joyce Theater. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2017-02-14
Why Sad Music Is So Compelling
There’s an inherent humanity in relating to each other when we’re at our weakest—it allows us to feel less alone, regardless of our circumstances. Music’s ability to tap into the human experience and both good and bad emotions is the universal connecting thread between songwriter and listener, according to Kenneth Aigen, music therapist, author and associate professor of music therapy at New York University.
Celebrate Good Design! (But Define What It Is First)
Thinking about the potential gap between design that’s good and design that succeeds raises the obvious question: What is “design,” anyway? This is a question that has been picked over for decades. Advocates of the profession—critics, curators, designers themselves—insist that the work is underestimated, if not flat-out marginalized. Design (they are forever pointing out) is not merely an exercise in superficial aesthetics or styling, as the public may assume. It is, rather, a far more serious matter of problem-solving and experience-shaping, driven by a uniquely rigorous approach to the human-made world in all its dimensions.
German Museum Discovers It Has Owned A Rembrandt… For 250 Years
“Experts made comparisons, including microscopic analyses, with other Rembrandt originals in Amsterdam, Paris and Vienna to confirm that the chalk drawing indeed came from the world-renowned Dutch master’s hand. The museum noted how unusual the discovery was as worldwide only few drawings of animals by Rembrandt exist.”