“Either everything’s dirty or everything’s clean. Caravaggio was a murderer but his paintings are sublime. David Bowie slept with underage girls. Ezra Pound and TS Eliot were both antisemites. Does admiring their poems make us condoners of hate-speech? Or do we cut this Gordian knot and view the work in isolation?”
Tag: 11.09.17
Survey: Half Of Workers In Book Trades Report Being Sexually Harassed
“Many of those surveyed reported incidents where younger, more junior colleagues were harassed by men in more senior roles. Sixty-six percent of publicists, who often work closely with authors outside the office while on promotional tours, reported harassment, with 61% of booksellers reporting abusive behaviour from customers, colleagues or visiting authors.”
L.A. Phil Has Enormous Plans For Its Centennial: 50 Commissions And A New Gehry Building
“For the year leading up to the 100th anniversary of its first concert on Oct. 24, 1919, the [Los Angeles Philharmonic] has hired Frank Gehry to design a permanent home for music director Gustavo Dudamel’s YOLA youth education project. The L.A. Phil also will premiere an unheard-of 50 new works that it has commissioned. It will reach out to community groups to distribute 10,000 free tickets to concerts and events, and it will partner with dozens of local and international arts organizations, from the organizers of Hollywood’s Academy Awards to London’s Royal Ballet.
Rap’s TV And Movie Revolution
From “Empire” to ”Atlanta” to “The Get Down,” hip-hop has been the subject of some of the most inventive television of the last few years. Documentaries have been preserving the music through a historical lens, but it’s also being celebrated — and reimagined — through an artistic one.
Museum Director Doubles Attendance, Events, And Donations Within A Year – And Board Fires Her
Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres took over the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum from its founder last year and racked up success after success. Then she was sacked by the board, whose attorney says, “She was fired because she was a destructive, uncaring insensitive employee who has retaliated with false allegations against the longtime management of the museum.” Beres maintains that she was fired for blowing the whistle on several unethical practices by the board, and she’s suing.
How Philly Became A Hotbed Of Experimental Music
Yes, staid old Philadelphia – where just 12 years ago poor Michael Hersch had a major premiere booed; where, as recently as 1986, fully half the audience walked out of Pelléas et Mélisande, for Pete’s sake – has started embracing contemporary classical. There’s Opera Philly’s O17 festival, the new October Revolution fest, a daring series at the Barnes Foundation, plus now-established outfits like The Crossing and FringeArts; next spring there’s even going to be Stockhausen’s 14-hour chamber-music cycle Klang. There are four serious new-music events in just the next week. David Patrick Stearns explains how the change happened and talks to some of the key players involved.
World’s Greatest Collection Of Soviet Dissident Art Gets New Home In New Jersey
Well over 17,000 works from the USSR’s artistic underground, collected by the late economist Norton Dodge and his wife, Nancy, are going to the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. The trove, worth an estimated $34 million and accompanied by $10 million to support maintenance, is the largest gift of any kind in the university’s history.
Court Orders Release Of Art Collection ‘Held Hostage’ By Storage Company
“Mana Fine Arts, an art storage complex in New Jersey, has been ordered by a New York judge to turn over the Mugrabi family’s entire 1,400-piece art collection, including works by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tom Wesselmann and Damien Hirst.” The Mugrabis say Mana “is holding the collection hostage over disputed back storage fees, bringing their business to a standstill and preventing them from either selling or showing the art.”
Louis C.K. Accused By Five Women Of Sexual Misbehavior Unfit For Headlines (Ick)
“Now, after years of unsubstantiated rumors about [the star comedian]masturbating in front of associates, women are coming forward to describe what they experienced. Even amid the current burst of sexual misconduct accusations against powerful men, the stories about Louis C.K. stand out because he has so few equals in comedy. … And [he] built a reputation as the unlikely conscience of the comedy scene, by making audiences laugh about hypocrisy – especially male hypocrisy.”
On Tour With The Muslim World’s Number-One Teen Idol Pop Star
From Lebanon to Sweden to England to Indonesia to Turkey (President Erdoğan is a fan), 36-year-old Maher Zain draws enormous, cheering crowds and 100 million YouTube views every month. All this with music that’s as wholesome, in its Muslim way, as Donny Osmond or Amy Grant. “I don’t want to live this life, basically. I really don’t,” he says. “I believe I’m on a mission and you cannot turn it down, you know what I mean? I’ve been chosen.”