“This was to be the first franchise of an event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and its failure to make it here is a reminder that the art patrons in Dallas will show up dressed to the nines for galas like TWOxTWO last week, raising millions of dollars for the Dallas Museum of Art and amfAR, but aren’t interested in seeing an event like ArtPrize come to life, which allows artists of any caliber to participate.”
Tag: 10.30.15
Why Paris Used To Be Great (And Isn’t Now)
The Other Paris is both eulogy and paean to the matrixes of anarchy, creativity, crime, and serendipity that once gave shape to the City of Light. “The past, whatever its drawbacks, was wild,” Sante writes. “By contrast, the present is farmed.”
George Lucas’ Big Fantasy Museum Approved In Chicago
The planned museum, designed by Ma Yansong of MAD Architects, looks like a postmodern blend of the Millennium Falcon, Disney’s (DIS) Space Mountain attraction and the TWA terminal at JFK International Airport.
Star Clarinetist Martin Fröst Stricken With Inner-Ear Disorder, Cancels All Remaining 2015 Concerts
Those dates included Fröst’s debut as artistic partner of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, in Minnesota and on an Asian tour. He has been diagnosed with Meniere’s Disease, “a disorder of the inner ear which causes severe vertigo, sickness, and tinnitus.”
Invaders in Our Living Room: Why We Love The Myth That Most Americans Believed The 1938 ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast
“The way we think about media to this day is heavily indebted to the very ideas behind the broadcast and its reception – that radio, and media, can constitute a kind of invasive psychological experiment. War of the Worlds and the panic about its panic are products of the moment when the young fields of social psychology and radio used one another to legitimize themselves. Its significance to American history, panic or not, is bigger than even popular myth allows.”
Buffalo Company Opera Sacra Shuts Down After 40 Years
“Opera Sacra, which focused on operas with religious themes, has presented many professional-quality productions over the past four decades.” Said director Father Jacob Ledwon, “I have decided that 40 seasons is a good run.”
Reading Can Be Hot, Says The Photographer Who Invented #LiterarySwag
“Israel has managed to snap photos and videos of everyone from Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Junot Diaz to author Ta-Nehisi Coates, all of whom project their personal style via their reading.”
As We Mourn Grantland, Here Are Some Of Its Best Longform Stories
Including stories on the death of the half-hour comedy show, a deep dive into NYT wedding announcements, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Los Angeles and much more.
Keeping An Artistic Record Of Fast-Moving Architecture
“‘I was interested in how people use material,’ she says. ‘And how those materials are used to re-create some element of the architecture of the place they are from. You see styles of houses from the coast or from the south of Mexico — but they’re all made with materials that are only found on the border.'”
A Play About Nannerl Mozart Brings Her Back To The Stage Lights
“When I researched how well she played, I saw that the two of them toured all over Europe. I saw that she was billed first in many of their shows. Yet, the things she composed did not survive. It just seemed to me like a story that needed to be told. If no one else was going to do that, I decided I would do it myself.”