“It’s the same as in sports. Once you win a season, repeating everything that you did the next season is the surest way not to win. To stay on that edge, you have to question and risk everything. Once you get used to winning, then you just love that edge. You love the fact it’s risky. Otherwise, I’m sorry, it gets really boring. So there is no formula.”
Tag: 08.31.17
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Receives Largest Gift In Its History
The $1.5 million donation, “called the ‘Allan Vogel Chair, endowed by the Henry Family,’ supports the principal oboe chair. … The gift is significant for LACO, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary season. The orchestra’s annual budget is $4.5 million.”
British Museum To Completely Overhaul Its Displays On World Cultures
“The British Museum is embarking on what could be the most far-ranging redisplay of its collection for more than 150 years. In his first in-depth interview since taking over as director in April 2016, Hartwig Fischer has revealed plans to reorganise and revitalise what could amount to half of the museum’s 95 galleries.”
India’s Big New Performing Arts Impresario Is A Power Company
Energo India’s main business is building electric plants, but last year it opened a new division called Navrasa Duende, which has already produced concert tours and film festivals. Next month, it’s bringing in from Ukraine the first professional staging of the ballet Swan Lake in India in living memory.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.31.17
Homeward Bound
Jonah Bokaer performs at the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2017-08-31
Janne “Loffe” Carlsson 1937-2017
Less than a month after he amused a huge audience at the opening event of the Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival, the Swedish actor, comedian and drummer Janne “Loffe” Carlsson has died. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2017-08-31
Study: The Idea That Universities Fight Inequality Turns Out To Be A Myth
“In a fascinating new paper published this summer, five economists, Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, and Danny Yagan, call into question higher education’s role in promoting upward mobility. The centerpiece of the paper is “mobility report cards” for each college in America. The researchers considered 30 million students between 1999 and 2014 and compared their parents’ incomes to their own post-college earnings, by school. With this data, they could see exactly which colleges helped the most students rise from the bottom of the earnings ladder to the top.”
Lessons For The US? – How New Delhi Dealt With Its Colonial Monuments
“Britain withdrew from the subcontinent seventy years ago this month, creating, amid the bloodshed of Partition, the independent states of India and Pakistan. (They came into being at the famous stroke of midnight, the moment when Britain withdrew its sovereignty.) The imperial statues in New Delhi presented a dilemma; compared with the challenges of poverty, industrialization, and the desire to consolidate a constitutional democracy, they were a minor irritant, but a highly visible one.”
Art In Support Of Homeless: 9000 to Sleep In A Park In Edinburgh
“It is hoped 9,000 people will take part in the sleepout, which will see Liam Gallagher, Deacon Blue, Amy Macdonald and Frightened Rabbit play unplugged. No tickets will be sold, with members of the public and businesses joining the event by reaching fundraising targets and accepting the sleep-out challenge.”
Crystal Bridges Museum To Open Satellite Venue
The facility, in a former Kraft Foods factory about a mile and a half from the main museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, “will be known as the Momentary and will showcase visual and performing arts. It also will house an art[ist]-in-residency program.”