“The greatest impact of trees was in the realm of taxonomy, as visual representations of abstract religious and scientific concepts. Religion illuminated the way, with 13th-century scribes drawing trees to show relationships between scriptural texts, to aid memory and encourage exegesis – the practice of critical interpretation of texts common in monasteries.”
Paralyzed by Pluralism? Millennials: We’re Not Apathetic, We’re Undecided!
Zachary Fine: “Unlike those adults who encountered pluralism with their beliefs close at hand, we entered the world when truth-claims and qualitative judgments were already on trial and seemingly interchangeable. As a result, we continue to struggle when it comes to decisively avowing our most basic convictions.”
Peter Sellars Remembers Gerard Mortier
“None of us who knew and worked with Gerard will ever be the same. His visionary, always practical, and constantly generous presence enlivened each conversation, each rehearsal, each project. Perhaps more amazingly, many of Gerard’s rivals, critics, and adversaries will never be the same either.”
Some Independent Bookstores Are Doing Well. Why?
“If you are feeling low about the fate of the bookstore, just step through the door of Type Books on Queen Street West. Despite competition from ebooks and the giant bookselling chains, this brilliant little chocolate box for bibliophiles is thriving. Its sales are good. Its customers are loyal. The smart, friendly, learned people who work there are far from giving up the ghost.”
Maryland Raids Arts Fund To Give Tax Credits To Film Producers (“House Of Cards”)
“To secure the extra funding, the General Assembly authorized state economic developers to dip into a $2.5 million pot of money called the Special Fund for the Preservation of Cultural Arts. It was created in 2009 to support arts organizations.”
Museums And Music, Theatre, Dance – It’s Gotta Happen
“You simply cannot understand the contemporary art world without considering performance. Nor can you appreciate the history of modern music without acknowledging its support from the art world.”
Hollywood Is Built On Unpaid Internships. Will This Lawsuit Change All That?
“Uncompensated minions are as central to the movie business as private jets, splashy premieres and $200 lunches. But the Hollywood tradition is under assault.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.06.14
Delaware Art Museum’s Deaccession Debacle: The Impotence of AAMD
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-04-07
All Rock-Music Edition: Dean Wareham, and the Poptimists
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-04-06
The Talking Cure, Part III (productive talk)
AJBlog: We The Audience | Published 2014-04-06
AJBlog: We The Audience | Published 2014-04-06
Video: San Diego Opera chief gets hooted at final premiere
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-06
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Broadway Shows Getting A Second Life, In Smaller Concerts
“The new wrinkle comes with the chance to do shows in a nightclub setting, where cult shows and rock musicals play more effectively and where a few hundred — not a few thousand — seats need to be filled.”
If The Doors Of Film Directing Won’t Open For Women, Girls Will Knock Them Down
“We want to encourage more young women to pick up the camera so we have greater diversity in what we’re watching. Girls lack confidence to pick up a camera because they think they need to be technical but a director is just someone who has a story to tell and can tell it clearly.”
Taking American Art To The American People
“We’re hoping this puts American art on the minds of every single American on their way to school or work and becomes part of the daily conversation.”
De Blasio Picks Queens Museum Director As New York’s Next Cultural-Affairs Commissioner
Tom Finkelpearl “served under Mayor David Dinkins and Mayor Rudy Giuliani as director of New York City’s Percent for Art program, which supports artwork in city-funded construction projects. Later, as deputy director of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, Queens, he helped broker the merger of P.S.1 and the Museum of Modern Art.”
Mickey Rooney, Legendary Actor And Box Office Smash, Dies At 93
“As adept at comedy as drama and an excellent singer and dancer, Rooney was regarded as the consummate entertainer. During a prolific career on stage and screen that spanned eight decades (‘I’ve been working all my life, but it seems longer,’ he once said), he was nominated for four Academy Awards.”
A New Internship Lawsuit – This One Against Hollywood
“Uncompensated minions are as central to the movie business as private jets, splashy premieres and $200 lunches. But the Hollywood tradition is under assault.”
Yes, Young Adult Books *Are* Filled With Dangerous Ideas
“You were always under scrutiny, not just by God but by the eyes of the community which functioned as its own form of Secret Service. That you could meet communal judgment with defiance seemed radical.”