Says ICO conductor Roberto Paternostro, “I’ve conducted for more than 25 years all over the world and I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. Everybody was so emotional – and many people came from Israel for the performance.”
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The Web’s Latest Dance Video Hit Stars A Baby Hippo
“The adorable creature has become a crowd-pleasing hit at San Diego Zoo thanks to his upside-down underwater japes. The seven-month-old calf” – named Adhama – “twists and turns in his underwater home while showing off an enviable array of flips and spins.”
Cincinnati Art Museum Finds ‘Spectacular’ Musical Instrument Collection In Its Basement
“For decades, a spectacular trove of more than 800 antique musical instruments languished – untouched, neglected and forgotten – in storage throughout the museum’s meandering undercroft. The discovery means that Cincinnati could possess one of the most important collections of non-Western musical instruments in the United States.”
The Love Letters Of Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe
“From 1915 until 1946, some 25,000 pieces of paper were exchanged between [the] two major 20th-century artists. [They] wrote each other letters – sometimes two and three a day, some of them 40 pages long.”
When Flying Saucers Landed: Remembering Space Age Design
“The Space Age left a sleekly modern mark on everything from office parks to kitchenware to kids’ TV shows like The Jetsons. Even today, if you drive around Los Angeles, you’ll see relics of Space Age architecture, including the flamboyantly futuristic Los Angeles International Airport and a nearby coffee shop called Pann’s.”
Entering Peter Zumthor’s Serpentine Pavilion
“The intensely black Serpentine pavilion is really little more than a perfectly proportioned wooden agricultural shed – you can easily imagine hens, cows and horses here – with a garden at its centre and a bench, stained Prussian blue, running all around it.”
When Ingmar Bergman Made Soap Commercials
“In 1951, [Sweden’s] film industry was in shambles and Bergman needed some cash, so he agreed to direct a series of nine commercials for the Swedish Unilever soap brand Bris. And lucky for us, fifty years later, some of these commercials have made their way to YouTube.”
Zaha Hadid’s First Major UK Building, Glasgow’s Riverside Museum, Set To Open
“Perhaps inevitably, this building has been dubbed Glasgow’s Guggenheim. Well, it’s not. This is not a building that seems to have been dropped down into an alien setting, which it then dominates; instead, Riverside blends into the climate and culture of Glasgow and its riverscape, feeling like part of its great flow of architecture and history.”
The Banksys Of Benghazi: How Libyans Caricature Gaddafi In Graffiti
“There are posters of Gaddafi pumping petrol into a winged camel, Gaddafi with the tail of a snake and a forked tongue, Gaddafi as Dracula, Gaddafi as a clown, Gaddafi being bitten by a dog, Gaddafi getting a boot in the head. The variations are countless.”
How Domesticating Animals Turned Our Ancestors Human
“Our bond with animals goes far deeper than food and companionship: it drove our ancestors to develop tools and language.”