Tag: 06.02.17

The Guy Who Played Barney The Dinosaur For Ten Years Tells Us What It Was Like Inside That Big Purple Costume

David Joyner (who used to be a software analyst for Texas Instruments): “Now Barney is about 70 pounds, and it can get over 120 degrees inside. … The head doesn’t come off. The head doesn’t swivel. There’s no facial expressions that can be made. I can only see a certain amount, because of the peripheral of Barney’s mouth. And when Barney’s mouth is closed, I can’t see anything. So what I would literally do [to prepare] is I would walk around my apartment as if I was blind.” (video)

David Wulstan, 80, Pioneer In Revival Of Tudor-Era Music

As a scholar, he reconstructed Thomas Tallis’s great Mass setting for Christmas, Missa Puer natus est, and much of the surviving music by John Sheppard, whome he saved from oblivion. As a musician, he founded the hugely influential choir The Clerkes of Oxenford, whose distinctive sound and performing style paved the way for world-famous ensembles The Tallis Scholars and The Sixteen.

Here’s What’s In The Library Of Magic In New York

The not-for-profit organization was established in 2003, “dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of magic and its allied arts.” It was started by William Kalush, who developed a love of magic from the card tricks shown to him by his father, a Marine wounded in World War II. This love of card magic turned to a love of collecting magic books, which now form a wondrous collection of over 15,000 books—some dating to over 600 years old—housed in this hidden location.

Spanish Old Masters Paintings, Forgotten In Upper Manhattan, Are Huge Hits In Madrid

“The treasures of the Hispanic Society of America – works by Goya, Velázquez and El Greco, among other masters – are not a popular tourist draw at the group’s Beaux-Arts museum in Washington Heights. But through Sept. 10, the haughty portrait of the Duchess of Alba by Goya and 200 other works from the century-old Hispanic Society are finally receiving blockbuster recognition from thousands of visitors to the Prado Museum here – along with royal accolades, an international prize and souvenir folding fans.”

Can You Measure Arts Engagement? New Academic Paper Says Not Really

The paper states that using indicators and benchmarks to assess cultural activities, “which exhibit no obvious capacity for scalar measurement”, is a “political act”. The “ostensible neutrality” of this approach is, they say, “a trick of the light trying to launder responsibility for judgment in the competition for scarce resources”.

If You Give An Artist An Ellsworth Kelly Painting To Work Off Of, This Is What Can Result

Glenn Ligon took the Kelly painting “Blue Black” at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis and then pulled together a show that pulls together disparate artists in what Ligon calls “a meander.” He says, not being a curator, “I’m not bound by chronology or genre. It’s about encounters and collisions. I’m an artist, too. I have my work in juxtaposition with other work in the show. That’s a luxury I can do.”