Yes, museums do have codes of ethics that cover the professional conducts of their staffs. Erich Hatala Matthes argues that that isn’t anough, as controversies from the fate of looted antiquities in collections to this summer’s outcries over Dana Schutz’s Open Casket at the Whitney Biennial and Sam Durant’s Scaffold at the Walker Art Center to the culture war over Confederate monuments demonstrate.
Tag: 09.04.17
How A Little Indiana Company Town Became A Mecca Of Modernist Architecture
“Located 50 miles south of Indianapolis, Columbus owns dozens of architectural masterworks by internationally renowned designers from the era. Eliel and Eero Saarinen, and more than a handful of Pritzker Prize Laureates, including I.M. Pei, Richard Meier, and Robert Venturi, began developing projects there with sudden regularity in the mid-1950s.” Why were all these heavyweight architects making buildings there? Because of the owner of this company town’s company.
Ken Burns’ Big Tent Theory Of History
“To the satisfaction of many viewers, and the dismay of some historians, Burns seemed to have shaped American history into the form of a modern popular memoir: a tale of wounding and healing, shame and redemption.”
Berklee College To Take Over Historic NY Recording Studio
“Berklee College of Music will try to revive one of New York City’s most storied recording studios, where artists from Bruce Springsteen to Lady Gaga and the cast of the Broadway show “Hamilton” have produced hit albums.”
If A Critic Gets Free Tickets, Is She Obligated To Review The Play?
Lyn Gardner explains why a critic might not be able to publish a review – or might not, under certain circumstances, want to – and what good might come from those free tickets even if there’s no review.
She Gave Up A Starring Gig With Cirque Du Soleil To Master The Classical Dance Forms Of Central Asia
Tara Pandeya writes about how she came to study the rigorous, highly developed styles of the Tajik and Uyghur traditions, and how she traveled to Tajikistan to study and ended up a member of the national dance ensemble and winning a televised national competition.
Janine Charrat, Ballerina And Choreographer Who Survived Burns, Dead At 93
“[She] stood apart from her generation in being both the only female ballet choreographer in France and the only leading French ballet choreographer not to have emerged from the Paris Opera academy. Jean Cocteau called her a ‘solitary wanderer who goes beyond the stars’.” Yet she was best known for the 1961 incident when, during a television taping, her costume caught fire and she was severely burned. She was back at work in four months.
New York Daily News Sold To Tronc For $1
“Tronc, the publisher of The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune, announced on Monday that it had acquired The Daily News, the nearly 100-year-old tabloid that for decades set the city’s agenda with its gossip, sports and city coverage.”
Salzburg And The Transformative Effect Of Festivals
Salzburg maintains that the $75 million spent on the festival generates four times as much in revenue for the city. The final report of this summer’s six-week festival, which ended Wednesday, said 97% of all tickets were sold. Attendance was 261,500, more than double the capacity of the Coachella music festival.
Taking Stock Of Houston’s Architecture After The Storm
“This week, Houston’s art and architectural communities are beginning to take stock of the damage to historic and contemporary structures, as well as cultural projects still under construction.”