“While Spotify, Netflix and the Kindle fulfil part of that prediction, these and other digital services didn’t run the analogue, tangible objects out of town. On the contrary, the digital age has created a new market for the things we thought we’d consigned to sheds, attics and secondhand markets.”
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Immersive Virtual Reality In The Classroom
“Emerging evidence suggests that one of VR’s biggest strengths is its ability to tap student emotions, notably empathy and the can-do confidence known as self-efficacy.” Teachers are using the technology to put students in the shoes of Syrian refugees and police in Flint, Michigan.
Composer John Wykoff: How Music Can Persuade
“I suggest that composers give up using their music to change people’s minds. (When I say “minds,” I really mean people’s beliefs, opinions, and convictions.) I do not, please notice, suggest that anyone stop trying to change minds altogether, only that they stop using music to do it. Argument, not art, is the best tool for proving opinions. Music is poorly suited for that. But music is very well suited, or least it can be, for helping people to change their habits, especially habits of thinking and perceiving.”
I Directed The Nairobi Premiere Of ‘Grease’ At Age 15
Fast-rising Off-Broadway director Saheem Ali writes about how he saw his first show ever on a trip to London and came home to Nairobi obsessed – and came home to the Kenyan capital and cast, designed, directed, choreographed, and starred in his own “very makeshift, highly illegal, passion-fueled” production of it.
Only Known Film Footage Of Marcel Proust Surfaces
A Canadian professor discovered the clip – 77 seconds from the wedding of two of the author’s friends – in France’s national film archives. (includes video)
Guggenheim Lures Its Old Chief Curator Back With A New Title: Artistic Director
“Brooklyn taketh, but sometimes Brooklyn giveth back.” Last spring, Nancy Spector left the Guggenheim’s Manhattan flagship to become chief curator at the Brooklyn Museum. Now the Guggenheim’s director has created a new position just for her.
What Happens When You Turn The Guggenheim’s Rotunda Over To Michelle Dorrance? This.
“It came as something of a shock, one night in January, when people high on the corkscrew ramp of the Guggenheim Museum’s spiral rotunda started beating on the balustrade with sticks.” (includes video)
Now Open: The World’s Most Expensive Library
Is this in Saudi Arabia or Dubai? No, it’s in Russia – in a new Gothic-style building in St. Petersburg erected and operated by the publishing house Alfaret. A four-hour visit costs 7,000 rubles, just over $120.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.15.17
Is The Institutionalization Of Our Arts A Dead End? In his essay looking back on Lincoln Center on its 50th birthday, Joe Horowitz suggests that the cultural citadel built optimistically to be a launching pad for the American performing arts, might have turned out … read more
AJBlog: diacritical | Douglas McLennan Published 2017-02-16
Is artistic leadership at America’s arts institutions lacking? Is this at the root of declining relevancy? Joe Horowitz has written a stirring essay on the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, and New York Philharmonic on the … read more
AJBlog: Jumper Published 2017-02-15
Lincoln Center 50 Years On – An Experiment In American Dance? Reading Joseph Horowitz’s essay, “Bing, Bernstein, Balanchine,” and then re-reading the passages that apply to ballet at Lincoln Center, I’m suddenly thrown back to the 1960s and a different view of tradition and innovation. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2017-02-15
Uh-Oh: Trouble at the Brooklyn Museum?
I’m not sure, but I just received an email announcing that Nancy Spector, who had joined the Brooklyn Museum just last April as Deputy Director and Chief Curator, is moving back to the Guggenheim Museum … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-02-15
All Sides Speak Out In The Disavowed Chinese Anselm Kiefer Show
Keefer: Throughout my career I have been heavily involved in all my major international exhibitions and it is a matter of deep regret and frustration that the organizers of my first show in China have seen fit to exclude me from this process.” Now the curator and newly appointed president of the German committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), Beate Reifenscheid, who has always defended the project, is claiming that the galleries involved didn’t want the exhibition to go ahead as they wanted control over Kiefer’s work in the Asian market.