There remains the intriguing possibility that the bed still survives in Boxmeer—a silent witness to the story of Van Gogh in Arles.
Tag: 10.31.16
Report: Cable TV Subscription Price Increases Have Exceeded Inflation Every Year For 20 Years
For US cable TV in particular, price increases have outpaced inflation for every single one of the past 20 years, according to a recent FCC report surfaced by CordCutting.com. Every one! In 1995, cable cost $22.35 per month, on average. In 2015, it was $69.03. And the climb has been steady.
Picasso’s Handyman, Convicted Of Possessing Stolen Paintings, Now Says The Widow Was Hiding Them From The Kids
Pierre Le Guennec and his wife Danielle were found guilty last year of keeping 271 of Picasso’s drawings, collages and paintings in their garage for four decades. Now, appealing their conviction, Pierre told the court that “Mrs Jacqueline Picasso had problems with Claude Picasso” over the artist’s estate and stashed a bunch of paintings with the Le Guennecs, leaving one bag with the 271 works behind as a thank-you. (He didn’t mention this during his first trial because he was afraid, of course.) Claude’s attorney calls this “a staggering lie.”
Portland Symphony Musicians Get Four-Year Contract With Real Raises
There’ll be a 4% pay increase in each of the first two years, with compensation to be reviewed thereafter.
Tammy Grimes, The Original Unsinkable Molly Brown, Dead At 82
She won her first Tony for playing the Titanic survivor in the Meredith Wilson musical – and her second for Private Lives by Noël Coward, who first discovered her way back when.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.31.16
Artificial Intelligence Invades The Museum and Art Worlds
“It’s a massively ambitious project.” That is Tony Guillan, a multimedia producer for the Tate museum, in the U.K, speaking. … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2016-10-30
The ties that bind
I was nosing around Facebook the other day when I stumbled across a reproduction of a picture postcard that bore on its face an ancient black-and-white photograph of the first church that I can remember … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2016-10-31
we saw her fall
For years, I’ve wanted to create something that would capture the sense of helplessness I feel in the face of horrific onscreen images, the kinds of clips that 24-hour news programming seems to specialize in. … read more
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2016-10-31
“I’m Still Here” (despite buyouts): My Q&A with Keith Christiansen at the Met’s “Valentin de Boulogne”
By some strange curatorial telepathy, the Metropolitan Museum’s justly acclaimed “Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio” bears a title closely resembling that of a major show at another world-class museum: … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-10-31
Monday Recommendation: Fred Hersch Trio
Fred Hersch Trio, Floating (Palmetto)
I’m not sure how this 2014 CD ended up in the holding pen for so long, but I am delighted that it finally called to me from the stacks. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-10-31
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Want To Read This Margaret Atwood Story? You’ll Have To Wait 100 Years
The Future Library is part working library, part conceptual art project, part investment in unborn generations of readers. Starting with Margaret Atwood, a different author will contribute a work to the vault each year, with none to be opened until 2114.
Boston Globe Critic Goes On Sabbatical, Foundation Funds His Ten-Month Replacement
With funding provided by San Francisco-based organizations, Zoë Madonna, who won the 2014 Rubin Prize in Music Criticism at the Institute, starts a 10-month post as classical music critic at the Globe on Monday, corresponding with a temporary leave by Globe critic Jeremy Eichler, who is now a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.
London Now Has Audiophile Clubs Where You Can Hear Recordings At The Highest Quality Possible
“These speakers were built totally without compromise. When you have equipment this good, it can deliver such high quality that it emotionally connects you to the music. We’re not afraid to say that listening to music is a very magical thing.”
Meeting The Enemy In Virtual Reality – Art And VR As An Affecting Means Of Communicating
It holds the promise of opening up new frontiers for the integration of journalism and art in a socially oriented 21st-century performance piece poised at technology’s cutting edge.