Critic Peter Conrad and opera singer Christopher Gillett have it out.
Tag: 03.16.13
Burkina Faso’s Film Industry Bounces Back – With Movies Made By And For Africans
“Whereas their predecessors shot lavish celluloid spectacles largely underwritten by European checkbooks, the younger generation of Burkinabé filmmakers are making low-budget movies shot on HD cameras with local funding and geared toward local audiences. Instead of thatched huts in the bush, they’re set in living rooms in the ‘burbs.”
What Skills MIght A Professional Dancer Need?
Puppeteering, obviously.
Can Architects Sue For Their Unbuilt Museum?
“A federal judge will decide next week whether the U.S. National Slavery Museum’s largest creditor can move forward with a lawsuit involving deed restrictions on the museum’s property.”
Walter Pierce, 93, Modernist Architect Of Suburban Homes
“The 45-acre Peacock Farm, built from 1952 to 1958, shared the subdivision tradition of taking its name from the previous identity of the site; peacocks really had been raised there. But it was far from traditional. Floor plans were open, wide expanses of glass substituted for walls, roofs were asymmetrical and only slightly sloped, and basements were raised higher than in most houses, allowing in more light and elevating their role.”
As The Strike Continues in San Francisco, East Coast Tour In Doubt
“This weekend’s programs featuring Mahler’s Ninth Symphony have been canceled. As talks continue, symphony management says it will provide an update Sunday on the status of the organization’s East Coast tour, scheduled for this coming week.”
The National Gallery Can’t Save MoCA
“A proposed five-year collaboration deal between the troubled Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is, to use a critically astute technical term, a big, fat nothing-burger.”
The Saviors Of Flamenco (They Aren’t From Spain)
“While flamenco remains a quintessential component of Spanish culture, embedded in the Gypsy community of Andalusia, its economic sustainability relies increasingly on foreigners, who come to Spain both to learn flamenco and to recruit Spaniards to teach and perform overseas.”
As Google Glass Gets Real, Do We Care At All About Privacy?
“The ability — and the inclination — to keep information to ourselves seems to be slipping away with each new innovation. The question is: Does it matter?”
The Iraqi National Orchestra, A Decade After The War Began
“The orchestra has changed since the American invasion. One of the things I noticed most about the period after was the influx of young new talent. Students with really fine qualifications who were able to share their skills with the orchestra. Many came because they didn’t have anything else to do.”