“Thinking about the cost of music might simply get in the way of enjoying its intrinsic qualities, and free-ness frees us from this dilemma, allowing us to enjoy music on its merits alone.”
Tag: 06.06.13
V&A Museum Discovers It Has A Tintoretto
“The work by Tintoretto (1518-1594), one of 200 paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum to be reattributed or re-identified, forms part of an exhibition at the V&A which highlights 10 of the most interesting discoveries.”
How A Turkish Game Show Undermined Censorship Of The Protests
“The country’s three main television networks (including CNN Turkey) have almost completely ignored the demonstrations … That’s because government censors are allowed to restrict news media when ‘public health and morals, national security, public order, public safety, and the unity of the land are at stake.’ But that didn’t stop one wily show from finding its way around the media blackout.”
Manchester International Festival Cancels New Rite Of Spring
“The work, which was to be directed by Romeo Castellucci and conducted by Perm Opera artistic director Teodor Currentzis, will not go ahead because the production is ‘not yet possible in the format that the artist has envisioned’, according to an MIF spokeswoman.”
Bank Forecloses On Nashville Symphony’s Hall
“Foreclosure proceedings have been initiated against the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, and an auction of its landmark Schermerhorn Symphony Center has been scheduled for June 28. Formal notice of the foreclosure was issued by Bank of America, the lead lender on the $82.3 million still owed on the concert hall.”
How Roberto Bolaño Became Roberto Bolaño
The early short story collection Antwerp “finds Bolaño making the transition from poet to story writer – a transition he never fully completed, even in the almost nine-hundred pages of 2666. Always in his fiction the reader senses a discomfort with information revealed any way but indirectly.”
Shakespeare’s Globe To Send Its First Productions To Broadway
“The two-time Tony Award winner Mark Rylance will return to Broadway this fall to lead all-male ensembles in a double bill of Shakespeare, playing the besotted noblewoman Olivia in Twelfth Night and the titular monstrous monarch in Richard III.”
Russia’s Two Top Museums Fight Over Modernist Collection
“A row over Modernist masterpieces continues to simmer between the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and St Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum … The dispute involves dozens of works from the collections of Ivan Morozov and Sergei Shchukin, including paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse and Picasso, once housed in the State Museum of New Western Art in Moscow.”
All Philosophy Needs To Become Relevant Is A Good Marketing Plan
“If philosophy is so important, then selling itself to the culture at large is important too. So it’s time for philosophers to put their clothespins on their noses, wade into the stench of real-world commerce, and ask some of those tanned and toned marketing majors who skipped out on Philosophy 101 for some help.” After all, philosophy already has a popular product: thought experiments.
What Christians Can Learn From Listening To Young Atheists
Last year the Fixed Point Foundation began a nationwide campaign to interview members of college atheist groups. “The rules were simple: Tell us your journey to unbelief. It was not our purpose to dispute their stories or to debate the merits of their views. Not then, anyway. We just wanted to listen to what they had to say. And what they had to say startled us.”