“Nearly half a century ago, the Rosenbach Museum and Library began building a relationship with the young author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, who very quickly started using [it] as a repository for his original drawings, manuscripts, proofs, and rare editions. Through the years the numbers mounted, and today about 10,000 items of Sendakiana … fill the Rosenbach – the museum’s best calling card with generations that grew up with his books. But now that card is being recalled.”
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Keeping The Ballet Academy Full By Teaching Cirque Du Soleil-Style Tumbling
How you can tell this is in Las Vegas: “The instruction will help prepare students for the commercial dance field — music videos, touring musicals, commercials, television shows, touring with recording artists and dancing in shows on the Strip.”
Ten Works Of Architecture That Could Easily Kill You
“Adrenaline junkies, adventure enthusiasts, and radical architecture lovers: we have a house for you.”
“Massive” Protests Planned For Met Opera’s Opening Night
Why? Surely not to protest that night’s “Magic Flute”. No, a group calling itself the “Coalition Against The Met Terror Opera” has another target in mind.
Making E-Readers (And E-Books) Poet Friendly
“Of all the literary genres, poetry has proved the most resistant to digital technology, not for stodgy cultural reasons but for tricky mechanical ones. Most e-readers mangle the line breaks and stanzas that are so crucial to the appearance and rhythm of poetry.”
People Are So Sad About The End Of The iPod Classic That Yes, Here’s Another Paean To That Object
“Looking at someone’s iPod was like looking into their soul. In their music you could see who they were. You could tell if they were sophisticated or rough. You could see in their playlists the moments they fell in love and the moments they fell back out again. You could see the filthiest, nastiest hip hop in the little white boxes of the primmest people, and know their inner lives a little better than you did before.”
Jane Austen Fans Really Love To Dress Up Like Jane Austen’s Characters
“It is not just about Jane Austen, it is about a way of life which was much more elegant, much more refined.”
Building A Television Empire Requires A Lot Of Drama
“In giving [Shonda] Rhimes the key to Thursday, which remains a lucrative night as film studios promote weekend releases, the alphabet network is acknowledging how big a draw her name has become with her patented style of traditional procedural meets emotional roller coaster — and showing that it sees her as a vital figure in helping them crawl out of a three-year spell in fourth place in the advertiser-preferred 18-49 demographic. “
The Power Of Technology: An Ending To 13-Year-Long Quest To Find People In 9/11 Wedding Photo
“She’s looking at the pictures, the perished, the fallen, trying to match them up to the people in the photo, and the whole time she’s been keeping this photo safe in her favorite Ernest Hemingway novel.”
Joe Sample, Pianist Of The Jazz Crusaders, Dead At 75
“The Jazz Crusaders, who played the muscular, bluesy variation on bebop known as hard bop, had their roots in Houston, where Mr. Sample, the tenor saxophonist Wilton Felder and the drummer Nesbert Hooper (better known by the self-explanatory first name Stix) began performing together as the Swingsters while in high school.”