Why Celebrating Wagner’s Ring Is Good For Los Angeles

A Los Angeles County supervisor’s demand that L.A. Opera “delete the focus on Wagner” from its “Ring” festival “would be a cultural public relations disaster for Los Angeles” and “would bankrupt L.A. Opera, which has been ‘Ring’ obsessed for a decade. It would harm Los Angeles’ economy: The tourism industry is banking on a ‘Ring’ windfall, and the ‘Ring Festival’ brings together 50 different arts organizations. And it’s even bad for the Jews.”

Why Celebrating Wagner’s Ring Is Good For Los Angeles

A Los Angeles County supervisor’s demand that L.A. Opera “delete the focus on Wagner” from its “Ring” festival “would be a cultural public relations disaster for Los Angeles…. It would bankrupt L.A. Opera, which has been ‘Ring’ obsessed for a decade. It would harm Los Angeles’ economy: The tourism industry is banking on a ‘Ring’ windfall, and the ‘Ring Festival’ brings together 50 different arts organizations. And it’s even bad for the Jews.” There are artistic and political arguments against it, too.

Ruling: O’Keeffe Museum Has No Standing To Stop Sale

“The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum may represent the painter’s estate but has no right to an art collection she donated to Fisk University, Tennessee’s Court of Appeals has ruled. … The financially struggling university had asked a lower court for permission to sell two of the works” and to allow “a proposed $30 million arrangement to share the collection with the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Ark. “

Where False Memories Come From

“Individuals often recall the same events differently or report memories of things they should have been too young to recall. … Brain connections that encourage the formation of false memories have been identified. Such memories appear to be more likely in people with high-quality links between neurons in a particular brain area.”

Robert Wilson Pays Final Homage To Pioneering Japanese Dancer

“During the 1960s, Suzushi Hanayagi ventured alone to New York, in an unusual act of courage for a Japanese woman of her generation, armed with training in traditional dance to forge a new form of Western-style modern dance. … Avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson, who worked with Hanayagi in the U.S., has created what he calls their ‘last collaboration’ titled – KOOL – Dancing in My Mind.”