Yes, he’s the first Black man – and only the second Black person ever, after Whoopi Goldberg in 2002 – to earn the entertainment superfecta. But “Legend’s well-earned moment runs the risk of becoming a kind of racial-progress overreach that is seen as a final piece of the puzzle, when in reality it’s just part of its framing.”
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Ira Sabin Of Jazz Times Is Gone
When he started the publication Radio Free Jazz, he didn’t know it, and he, would become a legend.
Ten Reasons Why We (And Literature) Love Lists
Actually, not a list of lists, but some questions and thoughts: “Is there such a thing as a happy list in literature? The blithe verbal sum of possessions, achievements or experiences? Isn’t the very act of setting such things down evidence of some vexation, a clue that something is missing? The collector’s catalogue, the merchant’s tally, the seducer’s black book: they are all examples of compensating control. Compensation for what? For a scouring anxiety, or cumbrous melancholy?”
Will The New Tax Code Spur On Or Tamp Down The ‘Art As Investment’ Mania?
The tax code, which favors a class that can buy art, also takes away a tool that the ultra-rich used to sell the art they had collected. One art advisor: “The effect won’t be negligible.”
Nancy Blomberg, Curator Who Championed Native American Art And Artists, Has Died At 72
Blomberg was a curator at the Denver Art Museum who dramatically changed the way Native art was treated at the museum and elsewhere. “She emphasized that pieces often thought of as anthropological artifacts were in fact artworks; she also pushed to expand the collection with work by contemporary artists and set up residencies for them.”
It’s The End, Or Beginning, Of An Era: The Met Will Perform On Sundays
Whoa, whoa, whoa, what? Yep: “The unions representing the Met’s orchestra, chorus and several other groups finished ratifying a new contract this week that will pave the way to a change, as the company, facing a worrisome decline in attendance, has realized that audiences find it increasingly difficult to squeeze in lengthy operas on weeknights.”
Lots Of Foreigners The World Over Get Their Ideas About Englishness From Agatha Christie
“Her works are seen as so easy to read, she’s a favourite author of people learning English. Christie is also, by leaps and bounds, the world’s most translated author – so if many people are learning the English language through Christie, they are learning about the English people through her, too.” And not everything all those folks pick up is bogus.
‘Les Troyens’ Starring Joyce DiDonato Is Gramophone’s Record Of The Year; Seattle Symphony Is Orchestra Of The Year
The Erato recording of Berlioz’s opera, co-starring Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Stéphane Degout and Michael Spyres with John Nelson conducting the Strasbourg Philharmonic, won the magazine’s top award. Orchestra of the Year, won by the Seattle Symphony, is a new prize chosen by public online vote. Conductor Neeme Järvi received a Lifetime Achievement Award. Baroque violinist Rachel Podger was named Artist of the Year.