“The Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw will try to educate people about the community’s rich past, and, say its curators, might also help dispel some of the suspicion towards Jews that still now – seven decades after the Holocaust – lingers in parts of Polish society.”
Tag: 04.18.13
Can Cape Verde Make Music Its Top Export?
The Portuguese-speaking archipelago off Africa’s Atlantic coast “has few exportable resources, but it has a strong musical heritage,” made famous worldwide by the late Cesária Evora. “So making the country’s greatest cultural asset its selling point makes sense” – and the country’s culture minister and its top impresario are giving it a try.
Is Camp Just For Gay Men?
Certainly not – though some of us (not all, but some) might be excused for thinking so.
Rising Tide Of Art (Finally) Lifts Prices For Women’s Work
“‘Remember “plastics” from ‘”The Graduate”? It should be “women,”‘ says Tony Podesta, the Washington lobbyist who is one of a handful of collectors aggressively buying work by women artists.”
The Right Chair For The Play – Or No Chair At All
“A bigger problem is our willingness to leave work ‘unfinished,’ to leave edges rough not by choice and design but because time or money ran out, and to later offer the explanation that we would have of course done better, had we had more of this resource or that crew.”
Why Is New York Selling Public Libraries?
“Some critics have raised concerns about the proposed sale of the Brooklyn Heights Library, saying it resembles the closing of the Donnell Library in 2008. Others are upset about a $300 million plan by the New York Public Library to sell off the Mid-Manhattan branch as well as the Science, Industry and Business Library as part of an effort to finance the renovation and reconfiguration of the library’s main branch on Fifth Avenue.”
Bolshoi Ballet’s Sergei Filin Still Can’t See After Acid Attack
“The Bolshoi ballet artistic director who suffered eye and skin damage in a horrifying acid attack in January still cannot see with either eye, his lawyer said Thursday, suggesting that his state of health is worse than predicted by doctors.”
What 15,000 Years Of Cooking Fish Tells Us About Humanity
It tells us that prehistoric, pre-agriculture humans were more sophisticated thinkers, and better craftsmen, than we had imagined.
Turning A Sondheim Chamber Musical Into An Extravaganza (Well, That‘s Bucking A Trend)
“What happens when you take a Stephen Sondheim chamber piece – Sunday in the Park With George – and produce it operatically, quadrupling the size of the orchestra?” That’s what they’ve done at Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet.
BBC Proms 2013 To Feature Wagner Cycle, First Female Conductor Of Last Night
Marin Alsop will take the podium for the Last Night of the Proms on Sept. 7, with guest stars Joyce DiDonato and Nigel Kennedy. The Proms’ Wagner bicentenary programming include a a concert Ring cycle conducted by Daniel Barenboim as well as concert performances of Tristan and Isolde, Tannhäuser and Parsifal.