“Peck stands apart for his ability to channel an almost conservative approach to ballet through an athletic idiom that’s easy for newcomers to appreciate.” Says New York City Ballet ballet master in chief Peter Martins, “He’s willing to break the rules but stay within the classical vocabulary.”
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All Those People Transcribing Smithsonian Documents For Free – What’s In It For Them?
“‘It’s a different way to interact with our records,’ said the Smithsonian’s project coordinator Meghan Ferriter, ‘and once they get into it, they realize how cool our collection at the Smithsonian really is.'” Turns out she’s not kidding.
The Things You Learn Transcribing For The Smithsonian
WSJ reporter Kelly Crow: “What happened to the painting? The mystery kept churning in my imagination as I transcribed a draft of a letter that American modernist Arthur Dove wrote in May 1933 to his biggest patron, Duncan Phillips.”
How To Get Street Artists To Help Create Your Designer Furniture Line
Ariel Zuckerman and Eran Shimshovitz “hung wooden boards around the southern Tel Aviv neighborhood near their workshop and waited for graffiti artists to do their work.” Which they did – whereupon Zuckerman and Shimshovitz took the boards back to the workshop and fashioned them into furniture.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.11.14
Art of 9/11: Remnants, Models, Memorial Tributes
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-09-11
The Sad State of New Music
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-09-12
Gerald Wilson And Harmony
AJBlog: RiffTides | Published 2014-09-11
Guelph’s jazz fest/colloquium of cosmic improvisation, Deutsch pix
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz | Published 2014-09-11
Things I’m thinking about…
AJBlog: Sandow | Published 2014-09-11
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Will Americans Ever Grow Up?
“It isn’t only that patriarchy in the strict, old-school Don Draper sense has fallen apart. It’s that it may never really have existed in the first place, at least in the way its avatars imagined. Which raises the question: Should we mourn the departed or dance on its grave?”
The War Machine On TV In China Probably Right Now, And Now, And Now
“About 100 anti-Japan films and nearly 70 TV programs were produced in 2013, according to Reuters, which estimates that the genre holds as much as 70 percent of the market.”
The Artist Walks 12 Miles To Make Each Artwork – And Then It Washes Away
“‘It’s a race against the tide, it’s nine hours of furious work,’ says the artist who is best known for making huge geometric snow designs in the Alps with his feet.”
There’s No Such Thing As A Generation, And This Is How They Were Invented
“People do not react to their particular historical conundrums as a monolithic group. This is often where trend pieces get into trouble, when they start attributing one possible reaction to the group as whole.”
How The Belarus Free Theatre Keeps On Battling A Stalinist Regime
In Belarus, the KGB attends Free Theatre shows, sometimes just to scare the performers. Other times, the evenings end in arrests. Criminal cases brought against the company drove four members to permanent exile in London. But they never cease their work. … The company now functions as a two-pronged operation: In England they perform with a rotating ensemble of British and Belarusian actors, and in Belarus they continue to write, develop and rehearse new material.”