“We’re not talking about a reunion right now, but never say never. Annie and I wrote so many songs together, and they keep popping up in different places, and I have this idea of putting them all together in a theatrical piece in the not too distant future.”
Tag: 09.05.12
Unknown Photo Of Emily Dickinson Surfaces
“A photograph believed to be an extremely rare image of Emily Dickinson has surfaced in her home town of Amherst, Massachusetts, showing a young woman in old-fashioned clothes, a tiny smile on her lips and a hand extended solicitously towards her friend.”
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum’s Renovation Is Finally Finished
“[For] the last decade, the Rijksmuseum has been operating in third gear – its treasures crammed into one wing while its main building has undergone a renovation process that has dragged on for far longer than was intended. … Amsterdam’s grandest cultural institution has finally revealed the date for its full reopening – although it will not be for another seven months.”
The Strange Story Of The Man Behind ‘Strange Fruit’
“One of Billie Holiday’s most iconic songs is ‘Strange Fruit,’ a haunting protest against the inhumanity of racism. Many people know that the man who wrote the song was inspired by a photograph of a lynching. But they might not realize that he’s also tied to another watershed moment in America’s history.”
At Telluride, Sarah Polley’s Family Memoir Wins Big (Unofficially, That Is)
“By the time things wrapped up Monday night, the biggest grumbling from passholders – other than how impossibly long the lines were this year – was that they hadn’t heard the good buzz about [Polley’s] Stories We Tell in time to catch the sleeper hit of the festival.”
Mashing Up Shakespeare And His Green World
Director Calixto Bieito on his play Forests: “Shakespeare’s words are out of context, but they are much more free. They are not a slave to the plot – they get a new dimension.”
No Villains, But A Lot Of Financial Trouble, At Indianapolis Symphony
“The symphony has run out of pain-free options, and the time for minor adjustments has passed.”
An Art Landmark Is Cleared – With Police Backup – In Berlin
Artists stood on the sidewalk with their possessions and artwork as Tacheles, “the grungy Berlin art center housed in a derelict former department store that became a trashy symbol of the capital’s post-unification freedom, was cleared on Tuesday.”
Humans, Destroying Everything We Mean To Save
“The loss of a species is also a loss of the images, stories, symbols and wonders that we live by – to call it a cultural loss may sound too cerebral: what we lose when we lose animals is the very meaning of life.”
What Does It Mean To Be A 21st-Century Critic?
The idea of “objectivity” is over: Embedded criticism means nursing a project through its development – and writing publicly about that development.