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Tag: 06.18.14
Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.18.14
The Young and the Restless: Taking the Right Career Path
AJBlog: Field Notes | Published 2014-06-18
Earmarked taxes for the arts
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth | Published 2014-06-18
Damning DAM: AAMD Sanctimoniously Sanctions the Delaware Art Museum
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-06-18
Public Art: The Video And The Cathedral
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-06-19
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Where’s The Real Anti-Semitism Around ‘The Death Of Klinghoffer’?
Mark Swed: “But in fact, the only anti-Semitism this work – which delves deep into the idealistic roots but inevitably evil practices of terrorism – has ever engendered has been because of often successful pressure from Jewish groups to ban performances of Klinghoffer rather than incorporate poetic tragedy into the peace process.”
Delaware Art Museum Loses Accreditation For Selling Its Art
Following the sale of William Holman Hunt’s Isabella and the Pot of Basil to pay down debt, the American Alliance of Museums revoked DAM’s accreditation and the Association of Art Museum Directors put DAM on a blacklist for receiving loans from or collaborating on shows with other museums. All this for the sake of a painting that sold for less than half Christie’s lower pre-sale estimate.
Jazzman Horace Silver, Creator of ‘Hard Bop’, Dead At 85
“Through classic compositions such as ‘Song for My Father,’ ‘Nica’s Dream’ and ‘Señor Blues’,” [the pianist and founder of the Jazz Messengers “influenced generations of musicians with a style that encompassed all his musical loves: gospel, blues, Latin rhythm. It was music that, in Silver’s words, ‘cooked’ and ‘burned’.”
The Met Opera’s Decision To Cancel Klinghoffer Moviecast: Illogical And Contradictory
If you think the piece is not antisemitic (and I, along with the vast majority who have seen the Met’s production – directed by Tom Morris, it was first seen at English National Opera in 2012 – agree with him) then you cannot also hold the position that the opera would exacerbate “rising antisemitism, particularly in Europe”.
Worried That Neuroscience Will Demystify Creativity And Art?
“No profound understanding of the workings of the brain is likely to compromise our appreciation of art, any more than our understanding of how the visual brain functions is likely to compromise the sense of vision.”
Daniel Keyes, 86, Author Of ‘Flowers For Algernon’
Having won awards in both short story and novel form, “Flowers for Algernon went on to sell more than five million copies and to become a staple of English classes. It inspired television adaptations, one of which also starred [Cliff] Robertson” – who won an Oscar for the film version, titled Charley – “and stage productions, including a musical and a play in Korean.”