Mr. Baldwin’s dispute with Ms. Boone, a prominent gallerist who built her reputation in the 1980s, has lifted a curtain on a part of the New York art world outsiders don’t always see.
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Why Did An American Couple Just Give $380 Million In Art To France?
It was a negotiation that involved the highest levels of the French government. “The donation, announced Saturday at a ceremony at Élysée Palace, was the culmination of formal talks between officials at the highest levels of the French government and the couple, who are 80 years old and have been married for 60 years.”
There’s A Neurological Explanation For Why I’m Always Late
As the surprisingly simple title of the study in question says, “Familiarity expands space and contracts time.” (See, boss? It’s science!)
How Hollywood Eagerly Enlisted In The War On Drugs
“The prospect of foreign drug traffickers invading American shores gave pop-culture cops a new and more dangerous enemy to fight, one that justified fast driving, explosive shootouts and all sorts of audience-thrilling rule-breaking. In return, Hollywood promoted the idea that drugs posed a grave threat that justified new, frightening police tactics and the erosion of basic rights.”
Edmonton Symphony’s New Chief Conductor Is A 24-Year-Old Former Child Prodigy
When he was 13, Alexander Prior wrote a ballet score commissioned by the Moscow State Ballet; when he was 17, he finished a conducting degree at the St. Petersburg Conservatory; he speaks six languages. Now, he’ll take over the baton in Alberta’s capital from William Eddins at the beginning of next season.
Is It A Farmers’ Market? A Train Station? No, It’s Berlin’s Next Museum
“The Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron has won a competition to build a new museum of 20th-century art in central Berlin with a long, low red-brick design that invited comparisons to a rail station, a barn, a temple and an indoor market.”
Making Dance For Dancers Over 60
The company manager of England’s DANCE SIX-0 writes about how the project started, the needs it’s fulfilling, and its activities from full-fledged public performance to dance for dementia patients.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.27.16
Viewpoint diversity
In a guest blog at Scientific American, social psychologist Clay Routledge asks whether American (and presumably this applies to other countries) universities allot an excessive amount of attention to racial, gender, and cultural diversity, but insufficient attention to viewpoint diversity. … read more
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth Published 2016-10-27
Moving Architecture
American Ballet Theatre presents ballets by Tharp, Lang, and Millepied. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-10-27
Paul Conley On Joey Alexander
I have a longstanding rule regarding child prodigies who emerge on waves of publicity: Approach with caution. When the eleven-year-old Indonesian pianist Joey Alexander materialized last year in a flurry of accolades from Wynton Marsalis, … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-10-27
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Cincinnati Symphony CEO Named New Head Of Interlochen
“A nonprofit, Interlochen includes one of the nation’s most renowned arts camps, which draws 2,500 students each summer for intensive work in seven arts disciplines in a nature setting. The center also has a 500-student fine arts boarding school, an acclaimed concert series and a public radio station. Its alumni include opera legend Jessye Norman, pop singer Josh Groban and conductor Lorin Maazel.”
Overnight Earthquakes Damage More Italian Heritage, Church Collapses
“The 5.4-magnitude and 5.9-magnitude tremors near Visso in the Marche region follow a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that destroyed the town of Amatrice, 70km to the south, on 24 August, killing at least 295 people. The impact was felt in Rome, Naples and the Veneto coast, according to Italian press reports.”