“Hokusai’s print was becoming more familiar just as the word tsunami was working its way into the English language … and the word and image soon became linked.”
Add ‘Sells A Lot More Comics’ To The Reasons For Making Superheroes Female
“The first five new Thor books are currently selling more copies than the last five Thor books from 2012 by close to 20,000 copies per month, not including digital copies.”
Amerian Museums Band Together To Protect Giant Land Art
“Michael Heizer has spent the past 43 years constructing this massive land art project, which will be one of the biggest sculptures in the world once complete. City, which is located in the Nevada Desert, measures more than a mile-and-a-half in length and a quarter-mile in width, and comprises a complex of enormous geometric mounds and sculptures.”
A (Female) Bach Scholar Takes Down The Anna-Magdalena-Wrote-The-Cello-Suites Theory For Good
Ruth Tatlow: “My decision to undertake this analysis of Written by Mrs Bach was not taken lightly. I had to weigh up the pain of writing critically about the well-meant research effort of an acquaintance, against the temporary relief but longer-term discomfort of remaining silent. I offer this analysis in the hope that it might help clarify some of the confusions and defuse some of the widely-felt frustrations.” (pdf)
A Rothschild Is Selling Two Rembrandts For €150M, Causing Controversy In France
The portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit were acquired in 1877 by Baron Gustave de Rothschild. Eric de Rothschild is putting them on the market, and the French government has granted an export license – making some art lovers in the country furious at both of them.
Arts In England Face ‘Serious And Irreversible Damage,’ Says Arts Index
“The Arts Index, which has been updated to include figures from 2012/13 and 2013/14, is described as a ‘health check’ on the arts in England and is measured by 20 indicators including financial inputs and outputs, and community and participation levels.”
‘Washeteria’ – Off-Off-Broadway Royalty Take Children’s Theater Through The Spin Cycle
This “theatrical installation” at a laundromat in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, “is the first for families ever produced by Soho Rep, the venerable downtown institution that has won 18 Obie Awards over the past decade.”
Using A “Musical Glove” To Help Stroke Victims Rewire Their Brains
“The glove is outfitted with tiny sensors that track the user’s hand movements. Patients use it to play a Guitar Hero-style game that involves pinching and gripping notes on the screen of a tablet.”
It’s Getting More And More Difficult To Tell What Plagiarism Is In Music
“Music works in a different way than the courts work. The arts are often about breaking rules and the courts are about maintaining rules.”
“Faith-Based” Movies Go Indie – And Some Of Them Are Really Good
Alissa Wilkinson: “As the chief film critic at one of the oldest and most widely read evangelical publications in the world, Christianity Today, I’ve come to realize there is both widespread category confusion in the industry about what constitutes a faith-based audience and ignorance about a burgeoning religious movement in independent cinema.”
NY City Ballet To Offer Seven World Premieres Next Season
Two of them will be by the company’s current it-boy, Justin Peck; one will be by another NYCB member, Troy Schumacher, with another by San Francisco Ballet corps dancer Myles Thatcher, a protégé of choreographer Alexei Ratmansky.
Three Women’s Lives Become One Of Iran’s Most Celebrated Stage Dramas
“None has a name, but their [well-known] identities emerge from the tales they tell. Each narrates a monologue, never acknowledging the others. But they have common memories – of childhood, of war – and when their stories cross, one stops and another picks up the thread. They cook as they speak, each in her own kitchen corner, chopping, cutting, mixing … This is Hamhavaie (acclimatising), … which is now being prepared for Europe and possibly the United States.”
Britain Increases Tax Breaks For High-End TV Drama
“As part of the Budget, [Chancellor of the Exchequer George] Osborne revealed that productions where expenditure for pre-production, principal photography and post-production accounted for upwards of 10% of the production budget would be eligible for relief. The previous threshold was 25%.”
Sylvie Guillem To Receive Special Olivier Award
“The classical and contemporary dancer will be presented with a special award at the London ceremony on 12 April. In her 33 year career, Guillem has danced all the leading roles of the classical repertoire with companies including The Royal Ballet and Kirov.”
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Deadly Attack On Tunisian Museum
“Eight people were killed as they got off a bus to visit the museum, according to an Interior Ministry spokesman; 10 more were taken hostage and then killed. State television reported that a Tunisian museum guard who was injured in the attack and died later of his wounds.”
Gabriele Finaldi Named Head Of London’s National Gallery
“The 49-year-old is currently deputy director for collections and research at the Prado museum in Madrid. Finaldi was a curator at the National from 1992 to 2002, where he was responsible for the later paintings in the Italian and Spanish collections.”
This American Culture – A Mean Anti-Elitist Streak
When did “difficulty” become suspect in American culture, widely derided as anti-democratic and contemptuously dismissed as evidence of so-called elitism? If a work of art isn’t somehow immediately “understood” or “accessible” by and to large numbers of people, it is often ridiculed as “esoteric,” “obtuse,” or even somehow un-American.
Islamist Extremists And The Destruction Of History
Jon Lee Anderson: “All around the Middle East, archeological treasures of the ancient world have been stripped of their original glory – often, of what some call graven images. ISIS’s fanatics do so hatefully, as if to spite all others, but they are not the only perpetrators. Muslim extremists have long sought to destroy the physical evidence that any other faith worth valuing existed before their own.”