“Imagine cases of letters from Jeffrey Dahmer, funerary garments that clothe a corpse for casket viewing, ornate Tibetan kapala skulls, crime scene photographs, an autopsy video, and oddball items like underwear Aileen Wuornos wore on death row.” (Not to mention Dr. Kevorkian’s Thanatron.)
Tag: 06.15.15
A New $6 Million “Sleeping Beauty”? But Why?
“I agree that the dancing is stamped with the spirit of the times. ABT has given us a piece of history, and there is value in that. Ballet historians are soaking this moment up. But for some of us, it’s like seeing lithographs of dainty ballerinas come to life. In this Sleeping Beauty I missed dancing that extends into space; I missed the directness that Balanchine has given us. Dance evolves for a reason. It adjusts to how cultures and bodies change.”
Nobody Bought Harper Lee’s Letters At Auction
“Christie’s had estimated a sale price of between $150,000 and $250,000, but bidding started at $80,000 and ended at $90,000, far short of the reserve price.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.15.15
Cherchez Les Femmes: Mysterious Role of “Party with a Financial Interest” in the $179.37-Million Picasso
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-06-15
Where to Start with Ornette Coleman
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-06-15
Rethinking Multimovement Form
AJBlog: PostClassic Published 2015-06-15
Road movie
AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2015-06-15
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Combat Gender And Racial Bias In Publishing By Reorganizing The Bookstop
“Since reading McDougall’s article, I have changed the way I approach my job, as have several of my colleagues at Foyles. I am reading more books in translation, more books by writers from different racial or cultural backgrounds to my own and vastly more books by women. As a result I have included more books in these categories as my staff picks, not to achieve quotas, but because they are bloody good books.”
The Simple Sandwich Made Women’s Lives Much, Much Easier
“1883’s Practical Housekeeping demands that, when picnicking, women ‘be up at five o’clock in the morning to have the chicken, biscuits, etc., freshly baked.'” And then came the sandwich.