“Let’s put on our close-reading glasses for just a moment (the ones with the rhinestone frames and the beaded chain) … [to] break down the three stages of the camp experience: the rush, the delight, and the savor.”
Tag: 04.03.13
Major Romanian Museum Has No Heat, One Light Bulb Per Room
The Brukenthal National Museum, a six-collection palace in the historic city of Sibiu and the fourth-most-visited museum in the country, has had to partially close. The museum’s director claims that the Culture Ministry has paid only one-tenth of the usual monthly subsidy; the Ministry claims that emergency funding has resolved the crisis and has demanded the director’s resignation.
Playing The Wagner Tuba: Yes, It’s Different
“When Richard Wagner began composing ‘The Ring of the Nibelung,’ his visionary opera cycle, he became dissatisfied with a particular musical theme. The solution, he decided, was not to rewrite the passage but to foster the creation of a new instrument to perform it–the Wagner tuba.”
How Arts Criticism Has Been Wrecked
“Critical response to art is no longer visceral and real; it’s bought and sold. We are witnessing the rapid erosion in trustworthy discourse from trained, consistent voices to help steer readers toward (subjectively determined) glorious theater, and away from (subjectively determined) chaff.”
How On Earth Does One Choreograph A Score Like The Rite Of Spring?
“Nijinsky set it in tunics, Pina Bausch as a brutal battle of the sexes – so just how do you dance to Stravinsky’s most violent score? Judith Mackrell talks to Akram Khan, Javier de Frutos and other leading choreographers about following the greats.”
Valerie Bertinelli, Conducting Star?
“Bertinelli came to conducting through a Czech reality show that was a precursor to the later BBC series “Maestro,” in which minor celebrities learn the nuts and bolts of conducting at the hands of a panel of professional musicians. Although she failed to make the top three — the victor was the tennis player Ivan Lendl — Bertinelli discovered a thereto-undreamed-of passion for classical music.”
A Portrait Of The Global Art Market
“As the $60 billion world art market contracted by 7% in 2012, sales in China fell by more than 20%, and sales of art in the US inched up 5%, giving the US 33% of world market share and leaving China with 25%.”
Revisiting Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s New Yorker Stories
The magazine has made six of the late author’s short stories available for non-subscribers.
Corcoran Gallery Announces Planned Partnership With Univ. Of Maryland
“The Corcoran’s board of trustees voted, 13 to 0, Wednesday afternoon to sign a preliminary agreement to explore a long-term partnership with Maryland that could include shared faculty; joint student degrees; cooperation on developing new courses; … and expansion of the Corcoran College of Art and Design by several hundred students.”
Stricken Franz Welser-Möst Not Yet Ready To Return To Podium
The conductor, who withdrew from a Vienna State Opera productio of Parsifal after opening night’s Act One due to severe back pain and low blood pressure, won’t be returning to the Cleveland Orchestra for next week’s concerts.