The acquisition, Neil MacGregor said, “will allow all visitors to the museum to reflect on this significant moment in the history of Europe, a great migration which may change the way we understand our continent.
Tag: 12.18.15
We Need To Calm The Heck Down About So-Called Spoilers
“Why does the enjoyment of spoiler freaks hold more social value than those who want to enjoy talking about an experience? Indeed, we build community in discussion. Keeping mum builds nothing.”
Unqualified Ballet Teachers Aren’t Just A Problem; They’re A Danger To Young Bones
“It’s not just relatively advanced techniques like pointe work that can cause problems, the academy warns – but forcing ‘turnout’, where dancers splay out their feet and open their hips, can also cause damage.”
The Rehabilitation Of One Of Los Angeles’ Most Contested Pieces Of Public Art
“‘He wanted to invent a new theory that would interweave color and music through the technology of the Triforium,’ said Leslie Young, one of the artist’s two daughters who spoke recently at the fundraising event. ‘As part of his fantastical plan, my father proposed that laser beams would shoot skyward from the three concrete pillars, tapping out Los Angeles in Morse code,’ said Cecily Young, Joseph Young’s other daughter.”
London ‘Garden Bridge’ Idea Hits Some Serious Bumps
“The fairy lights of a Christmas market twinkled through the windows while tourists shuffled along the south bank clutching cups of mulled wine, oblivious to the heated debate going on inside the chamber. The mayor had been summoned, along with the head of Transport for London Mike Brown and its planning director Richard de Cani, to explain themselves to the Greater London Authority’s Oversight Committee over the murky genesis of the proposed garden bridge. And Boris, chief bridge booster, was getting increasingly hot under the collar.”
Why The Hartford Symphony Is On The Brink
“The symphony spent most of the year in violation of federal labor rules, failing to make offers to individual musicians as required. More broadly, management has failed to raise enough money or present enough new programming to stanch the bleeding, which is now $1.3 million a year.”
New York Has Solved Public Art (But At What Cost?)
“So what am I supposed to do when cultural forces I loathe are responsible for something like a new golden age of public art, which I always felt was important, but also maybe something like impossible?”
So What Has Happened To The Corcoran’s School Of Art?
Every once in awhile, we hear news about the fate of select pieces from the former museum’s collection, many of which have been claimed by the National Gallery of Art. But little is known about the plight of the college, its staff, faculty, and students since it was taken over by George Washington University.
Broadway Wins Tax Benefit In Just-Passed Congressional Budget
“The change, part of a broader tax-cut measure approved by the House on Thursday and the Senate on Friday, extends to live theater a tax benefit already provided to the film and television industries.”
Is The Criticism Of The Crowd Drowning Out Professional Critics?
“As the fans and the publicists conspire to drown the rest of us with information, it can become difficult to honestly experience the film on the screen. The irony here is that the bigger and busier the conversation about movies becomes, the more it tends toward consensus; it’s the paradox of the Internet where infinite information is channelled through oligopolies.”