“Ten years after a Rio de Janeiro slum called Cidade de Deus (City of God) burst into the world’s consciousness with the hit film of the same name, very little has changed for the residents and the actors have enjoyed mixed fortunes.”
Tag: 08.05.13
Lloyd Moss, Beloved Classical Music Radio Host, Dead At 86
“[He] came to WQXR in 1954 and by his retirement on Sept. 29, 2006, was one of the longest-serving classical music hosts in the United States. Like many radio personalities of the era, he worked as a voiceover artist and actor [as well].” Moss became nationall known through two syndicated classical radio shows, First Hearing and This Is My Music.
Frida Kahlo’s Collection Of Photos To Be Restored
“The archive includes photos taken by a host of well-known 20th-century photographers, such as Man Ray, Edward Weston, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Lola and Manuel Alvarez Bravo. The collection also includes images shot by Frida as well as photos taken by her father, Guillermo, who was a famous photographer in the 1930s.”
Latest Numbers: E-Book Sales Are Flattening
“E-books are still taking share from printed books, sales of which declined by 4.7 percent in the quarter, but the anemic growth of the electronic market calls into question the strength of the so-called “digital revolution” in the book business.”
Putting The 2011 London Riots Onstage (In A Two-Hander)
Playwrights Kieran Hurley and A.J. Taudevin talk about Chalk Farm, which got raves during a brief run in Glasgow last year and is just opening in Edinburgh.
“Why Write Symphonies?” Asks Pulitzer-Winning Composer
Kevin Puts: “The symphony is not a trifle. It is not cute or hip or light. It says something important – about life and death and cosmic stuff – and it does so without embarrassment. … I need a private place where I can express the spiritual, the epic, the heartbreaking without shame or embarrassment. My Symphony No. 1 led me to this place.”
Today’s Art Forgeries Make Us Question The Whole Idea Of Originality
“In a world in which most people, whether from ambition or greed, want to discover originals rather than forgeries, connoisseurs and scientists can often be the forger’s best friends.”
Digital Impermanence – Maybe Paper Was Safer?
“Information technology now develops faster than any of us can keep up with, and to what end? If there is no permanence to the formats we use to store information, what is the point of storing information in them?”
Superstorm Sandy Has Provoked Changes In The Way Art Is Insured
“The total insured losses from Hurricane Sandy are estimated at around $35 billion, and approximately $200 million to $300 million consisted of losses to art–a huge hit for art insurers, who had already seen their worst year for catastrophic losses on record in 2011.”
Detroit Emergency Manager Hires An Appraiser For DIA Art
“Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr announced Monday that he has contracted with Christie’s Appraisals, the New York-based international auction house, to appraise the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts.”