I have lashed myself to the mast and plugged my ears so that I cannot be tempted by the booting-up siren song of the computer this week. As I mentioned at the end of this post, I’m taking off today and tomorrow for the first two nights of Passover, and then intend to resist blogging for the rest of this holiday week, unless five readers let me know, by clicking my “Donate” button before Wednesday, that they want me back.
Here, I’ll make it easy for you. This works:
So far, my warm thanks go out to CultureGrrl Donor 119 from Atlanta. That’s One.
To make up for my absence, I posted twice yesterday. Breaking news (Pritzker Prize; two museum-director deaths) caused me to break my usual practice of taking off for the weekend. Barring a benefactors’ miracle, though, I will not brake for breaking news this week.
You can pass a little time while I chew the matzos by viewing the archived webcast, now online, from last Friday’s meeting of the National Council on the Arts. Don’t miss the comment by ArtsJournal blogger Terry Teachout about what artists are going to need to do more of, going forward.
We can only hope that the spelling, beneath the video screen, of “Rocco Landman,” the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, will be corrected by the time you view that webcast. (Two letters, as of this writing, are missing.)
If you’re really desperate for things to do online while I’m munching macaroons, you can watch Marina staring down her acolytes at MoMA. (It’s pretty clear from watching this drama that the ban on photography is being honored in the breach.) Or you can refresh the Barnes construction webcam every 15 minutes. True CultureGrrl devotees can revisit the Top Two CultureGrrl Videos (or even all 26 of them).
That’s all, she wrote.