Meet a legendary, even mythical, support group in Portland, run by Chuck Palahniuk: “I recognize several of the attendees: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Abraham Verghese, Eoin Colfer.”
Tag: 11.14.11
Female Egyptian Activist Posts Nude Self-Portrait Online, Brouhaha Ensues
“In the United States, leaking a nude self-portrait is an embarrassing rite of passage for celebrities. In Egypt, it’s an act of political defiance. Aliaa Magda Elmahdy received praise and condemnation for posting a nude self-portrait and other nude photos on her blog as an act of personal expression.”
Strip Poker As Art Installation
An alternative art space in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood has “a new exhibition called ‘I’ll Raise You One…’ in which a group of people sit in the gallery’s storefront window space and play strip poker for all to see.”
Big New Minneapolis Dance Center Abruptly Loses Its Director
“The Cowles Center in downtown Minneapolis, which opened to great fanfare in September, is losing the executive director it hired just 10 months ago. In a surprise announcement Tuesday, the center said Frank Sonntag has resigned, effective at the end of the year.”
Sketches Found For Sibelius’s Lost Eighth Symphony
“This was not supposed to be possible. Sibelius’s Seventh Symphony was completed in 1924. He worked on an Eighth, for quite some time in fact, without anything material appearing (in spite of considerable public expectation, on both sides of the Atlantic), and then in the 1940s, something happened that should have put a full stop to the matter” – a bonfire.
Post-Earthquake Project To Rescue Haitian Artworks May Be In Jeopardy
Nearly two years after the temblor that devastated southern Haiti, the art conservation center created by the Smithsonian to protect works recovered from the rubble has been handed over to the government in Port-au-Prince. Will there be enough money to keep the project going?
Who Owns The Burghers Of Calais? Nobody, It Seems
“Rodin’s The Burghers Of Calais, which is among Britain’s most important public sculptures, does not appear to have a legal owner. It stands outside the Houses of Parliament and across the road from Henry Moore’s Knife Edge Two Piece, which is similarly ownerless.”
Should Actress Be Allowed To Sue To Keep IMDB Website From Revealing Her Age?
“The Internet Movie Database has launched a blistering counterattack against the anonymous actress who sued the service for revealing her age.”
BBC And Arts Council England Create Online Arts Platform
“Arts Council England and the BBC are launching an online arts channel that will broadcast new work, documentaries and filmed performances created by cultural organisations across the country.”
Neo-Academicism, Russia’s Last 20th-Century Avant-Garde Art Movement
“Fearing modern art’s encroachment on artistic traditions,” Leningrad avant-garde leader Timur Novikov, during the 1990s, “called for a return to ancient Greco-Roman ideals of beauty and harmony. But rather than simply reproducing classical motifs, Novikov [and his fellows] … adapted them to the 20th century with new media and irreverent interpretations.”