“A turbulent landscape in which storm clouds and sunlight vie for mastery over Salisbury Cathedral, which John Constable hoped would help secure his eternal reputation as an artist of genius, has been acquired by the Tate … will be shared and travel between a group of regional museums, including the national galleries of Wales and Scotland.”
Tag: 05.23.13
Florida Grand Opera Can’t Find Stage Big Enough For Tristan
“Florida Grand Opera has postponed Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde for a season and will be performing Massenet’s Thaïs in its place for the 2013-2014 season. The decision to wait was made when the company could not find large enough stages in Miami and Fort Lauderdale.”
‘A Terrible Evil’: Edgar Allan Poe Writes About His Wife’s Illness and Death
“In a passage buried deep in this long letter full of business chatter and gossip, Edgar Allan Poe recounts the story of his wife Virginia’s 1847 death from tuberculosis and describes his own desperate reaction” – and reveals some insight into his own use of alcohol.
Reality TV Is The New Family TV
They make performance more exciting, or they game-ify aspects of adult life, like cooking or traveling or making money. And though “appropriate” is a relative term, they tend to do it in relatively clean terms.
A Plan To Sell Fan Fiction
“On Wednesday, Amazon announced a new scheme in which writers of fan fiction can self-publish and sell that writing with the sanction of the original copyright holder.”
An E-Book Education Revolution In Poorest Countries
“Is there another way to provide affordable education to poor people on a giant scale Bridge is betting that there is — in fact, its business and academic models are based on scale.”
Legendary Picasso Catalogue Returns To Print
“Comprising 33 volumes and more than 16,000 images,” Pablo Picasso – known in the art world as “the Zervos” – “was the result of an intense four-decade collaboration between the artist and [scholar/dealer Christian] Zervos.”
MoMA’s Thirst To Destroy The Folk Art Museum Is Territorial
“Williams and Tsien’s physically small (a mere forty feet wide and eighty-five feet high) but architecturally powerful incursion into MoMA’s presumed turf has long been known to be a thorn in the side of Glenn D. Lowry, the Modern’s director since 1995.”