David C. Bohnett, founder of GeoCities (remember GeoCities?), intends half of the amount to fund efforts to spread classical music through technology.
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Jane Freilicher, 90, New York School Artist Who Dared To Paint Landscapes
“She was not widely known by the general public, but her consistent, steady experimentation earned her intense acclaim throughout her life, particularly from contemporary critics and poets, many of whom were her close friends. In 1958, the poet James Schuyler termed her ‘a poet’s painter who may yet become the public’s painter” – an apt description for her entire career.”
Today’s Most Revolutionary Documentaries Are Being Made By A Group You’ve Never Heard Of
“[They] come not from a brand-name auteur or even some up-and-coming, Sundance-anointed visionary. Rather, they come from a place called the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, which sounds more like somewhere an ophthalmologist might send you than a source of great filmmaking.”
Michael C. Hall on Being Hedwig
“You get [from audience members] the stand-offish, I’m-not-gay-don’t-look-at-me-that-way vibe; you get the I’m-not-gay-but-I’m-kind-of-feeling-funny-in-a-way-that-I’m-not-entirely-uncomfortable-with vibe; you get the I’m-gay-and-I-entirely-approve-of-your-behavior vibe … And I think it’s compelling for a woman to see a man behave as a woman, and it might be liberating for her to watch a man jump off of hoods of cars in platform heels.”
Oronyms Lead To Mondegreens (How We Mis-Hear Song Lyrics)
Maria Konnikova explains the processes by which some people come to think Queen did a song called “Bohemian Rap City” and children wonder why Olive the other reindeer was mean to Rudolph.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.10.14
Excellence Is Heterogeneous
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2014-12-10
Conundrum
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2014-12-10
Menil Repurposes Sacred Space For Contemporary Art
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-12-10
Stubbornly Figurative in an Age of Abstraction: Jane Freilicher, 90, Dies
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2014-12-10
Other Matters: Risk And Playing From The Heart
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2014-12-10
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Oops! Scottish Theatre Mistakenly Sends Porn DVDs To Children
“The theatre had meant to send recordings of its summer schools for children. But the DVDs were reported to have featured explicit sexual content.”
National Endowment For The Humanities Funds Video Games
“The NEH announced $17.9 million in grants this week to support scholarship and education in the arts and letters, including the two grants of $100,000 each for online gaming projects, which are part of a new funding initiative for online cultural resources called Digital Projects for the Public.”
A Dismaying Idea Of What Theatre Is
“To say the kind of theatre performed in the West End (which is what she believed she was talking about) is one invented by white people is one thing, to say white people invented theatre ignores a whole host of other storytelling and performance traditions from Kabuki to Indian dance.”
London (Ontario) Orchestra On The Ropes
“The publicly funded group is lurching into the third major financial crisis in recent history after its biggest-ever donation recently fell apart, leaving it with a massive deficit for the 2013-14 season.”