Says the chairwoman of the Israel Chamber Orchestra, which will play Wagner’s music in Bayreuth next summer, “I think that the atmosphere has changed and that those people who were at the concentration camps are either weaker or no longer with us, and those who voiced their opinion are only a few and it is hard for them to (be heard now).”
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In the Subway’s Hidden Depths, Genuinely Outsider Art
“A vast new exhibition space opened in New York City this summer, with a show 18 months in the making. On view are works by 103 street artists from around the world, mostly big murals painted directly onto the gallery’s walls.” The show, called the Underbelly Project, is in one of the city’s disused subway stations: the art is literally illegal, and the artists – if found out – could be prosecuted for their work.
Want Great Architecture? You Have To Pay
“Spending on architecture and building (not always the same thing) has fallen in real terms over the past 200 years. Where once buildings were the greatest, proudest and most expensive objects money could buy, today we spend on much else besides.”
The Crowd-Sourced Video – A New Way To Make Art?
“Ain’t No Grave was the last thing Johnny Cash recorded in a studio. Milk’s tribute has been to invite fans to submit their own single frame for the video – and 250,000 have been submitted so far. Viewers see a video composed of some of those frames, but can also choose director-curated frames, highest-rated frames, abstract frames and so on.”
Cornell President Calls For Campaign To Defend Humanities
“It is not an exaggeration to say that the humanities may hit a negative tipping point,” he said, “so there is urgency.”
Chicago Becomes Hot Place For Shooting Movies
The city has already hosted six television pilots, the Ron Howard-directed “The Dilemma” and, oh yeah, that one sequel about the robots in disguise.