Performing arts and cities and (again) the creative class
A new study just published in the academic journal Economic Development Quarterly looks at the links between big (budget over $2 million) performing arts organizations and the change in the proportion of the metro workforce … read more
AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2015-12-27
Monday Recommendation: Mette Henriette
The mystery, melancholy and minimalist magic of Mette Henriette Martedatter Rølvåg’s music stems in part from her family origins in the Sámi, the indigenous people of northern Scandinavia. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-12-28
The Year in CultureGrrl, 2015 Edition
2015 was, for me, a high point of my CultureGrrl “career” – the only year when my dogged blogging was generously compensated, thanks to the munificent Art Writers Grant from Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation. This windfall … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-12-27
Shared Birthday: Crow, Budwig, Scofield & Dickerson
December 26th is the birth date of several notable musicians including Bill Crow (b. 1927), John Scofield (b. 1951) and Dwight Dickerson (b 1944). We wish them a happy birthday and remember Monty Budwig (1929-1992). … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-12-27
Immodest me, in Steve Cerra’s Jazz Profiles
Howard Mandel, photo by Salvatore Corso Thanks to Steve Cerra of Jazz Profiles for asking me a few questions by email, and letting me go on and on. Of course my answers are far from … read more
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz Published 2015-12-26
Smyth: Early, Late, and Best
I’ve found what I think is the best available music by Ethel Smyth: this recording of her Serenade in D (1890) and Double Concerto for Violin and Horn (1927). (Pardon the generic suffragette image on … read more
AJBlog: PostClassic Published 2015-12-23
Puerto Rican/European: Francisco Oller’s Hybrid Paintings at the Brooklyn Museum
Like the works of Archibald Motley, now featured at the Whitney Museum, the art of Puerto Rican painter Francisco Oller, subject of a concurrent retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum (to Jan. 3), inhabits two separate … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-12-23
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Tag: 12.28.15
Taiwan Opens A Major New Branch Of Its Popular National Museum
“The flagship Taipei museum boasts more than 655,000 Chinese artefacts spanning 7,000 years from the prehistoric Neolithic period to the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1911. They were removed from the Beijing Palace Museum in the 1930s by China’s Nationalist government to prevent them falling into the hands of invading Japanese troops.”
Remembering Ellsworth Kelly
” He remained to the end a resolutely independent artist, and never wavered from his vision of colorful austerity, producing art that was resistant, yet never trivial, always clean, bold and deceptively simple.”