David Joyner (who used to be a software analyst for Texas Instruments): “Now Barney is about 70 pounds, and it can get over 120 degrees inside. … The head doesn’t come off. The head doesn’t swivel. There’s no facial expressions that can be made. I can only see a certain amount, because of the peripheral of Barney’s mouth. And when Barney’s mouth is closed, I can’t see anything. So what I would literally do [to prepare] is I would walk around my apartment as if I was blind.” (video)
David Wulstan, 80, Pioneer In Revival Of Tudor-Era Music
As a scholar, he reconstructed Thomas Tallis’s great Mass setting for Christmas, Missa Puer natus est, and much of the surviving music by John Sheppard, whome he saved from oblivion. As a musician, he founded the hugely influential choir The Clerkes of Oxenford, whose distinctive sound and performing style paved the way for world-famous ensembles The Tallis Scholars and The Sixteen.
Here’s What’s In The Library Of Magic In New York
The not-for-profit organization was established in 2003, “dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of magic and its allied arts.” It was started by William Kalush, who developed a love of magic from the card tricks shown to him by his father, a Marine wounded in World War II. This love of card magic turned to a love of collecting magic books, which now form a wondrous collection of over 15,000 books—some dating to over 600 years old—housed in this hidden location.
Spanish Old Masters Paintings, Forgotten In Upper Manhattan, Are Huge Hits In Madrid
“The treasures of the Hispanic Society of America – works by Goya, Velázquez and El Greco, among other masters – are not a popular tourist draw at the group’s Beaux-Arts museum in Washington Heights. But through Sept. 10, the haughty portrait of the Duchess of Alba by Goya and 200 other works from the century-old Hispanic Society are finally receiving blockbuster recognition from thousands of visitors to the Prado Museum here – along with royal accolades, an international prize and souvenir folding fans.”
Art Basel Sues Adidas For Trademark Infringement
“Art Basel and its Swiss parent company MCH are suing Adidas over limited-edition trainers that the German sportswear giant designed using the art fair’s trademark and distributed during Art Basel Miami Beach last year. It is the first time that Art Basel has filed a lawsuit in the US, according to national records.”
Going To The Movies Used To Be A Cultural Experience. It’s Losing That Resonance
“Going to the movies” is a Proustian madeleine, a series of pencil marks on a doorjamb, a solution to crises ranging from heartbreak to parental exhaustion, a way of being separate but together, present yet adrift. It’s also something people don’t do as often as they once did.
Baltimore Symphony Reaches New Contract Agreement With Players Three Months Early
Like the agreement reached last year, the new one, which begins Sept. 11 and runs until Sept. 9, 2018, includes a pay raise. Minimum weekly scale will rise from $1,560 to $1,591.20.
Can You Measure Arts Engagement? New Academic Paper Says Not Really
The paper states that using indicators and benchmarks to assess cultural activities, “which exhibit no obvious capacity for scalar measurement”, is a “political act”. The “ostensible neutrality” of this approach is, they say, “a trick of the light trying to launder responsibility for judgment in the competition for scarce resources”.
If You Give An Artist An Ellsworth Kelly Painting To Work Off Of, This Is What Can Result
Glenn Ligon took the Kelly painting “Blue Black” at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis and then pulled together a show that pulls together disparate artists in what Ligon calls “a meander.” He says, not being a curator, “I’m not bound by chronology or genre. It’s about encounters and collisions. I’m an artist, too. I have my work in juxtaposition with other work in the show. That’s a luxury I can do.”
Pope L. Wins The Whitney’s $100,000 Biennial Bucksbaum Award
It’s a pungent piece: “Pope.L staged Claim (Whitney Version), 2017, an immersive installation including 2,755 slices of bologna that, over the course of the show’s run, has cured and gradually leaked juices into basins at the bottom of the piece.”
Can You Name The Biggest Seller At Art Auctions? (It’s Not Picasso)
Zhang Daqian, a Chinese modernist painter who died in 1983, has almost $355 million in sales last year. He was a “prolific, much-traveled and much-faked artist, who himself delighted in faking Chinese masters.”
Teenage Radio Cowboy, Broadway Chorus Boy, And Powerful Broadway Producer Elliot Martin Has Died At 93
He produced plays on Broadway, off-Broadway and farther afield, and he was the first director of Los Angeles’ Center Theater Group. “He often said, though, that the pinnacle of his career was being the production stage manager in 1956 of the original Broadway production of O’Neill’s ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night,’ one of a dozen Broadway shows he stage-managed after abandoning a brief acting and singing stint in his 20s.”
Romcoms With Interracial Relationships Are Finally Hitting The Big Screen
No, it’s not new to see an interracial couple on-screen (and even in Love, Actually), but “their depictions in early cinema were rarely ‘light-hearted’ or ‘happily concluded’ – both conventions of the romcom.”
Do Superhero Movies Need Superstars In Order To Make It Big?
Gal Godot proves that’s a nope. And maybe it’s better this way: “‘When it’s Ben Affleck playing Batman, it’s hard not to look at that and see Ben Affleck.’ When you see Gadot these days, though, all you see is Diana Prince.”
Marie Cosindas, The Photographer Who Brought Color To The Gallery, Has Died At 93
She was a rebel in the days of the serious art black & white photo: “Ms. Cosindas, a painter by training, turned to photography early in her career and was immediately stymied by an unwritten law: For the medium to be true to itself, images must be black and white. Color was for advertising.”
Glass Artist Pioneer Dale Chihuly Reveals Bipolar Disorder, Fends Off Blackmail Threat
“Now 75 and still in the thrall of a decades-long career, he discussed his bipolar disorder in detail for the first time publicly in an interview with The Associated Press. He and his wife, Leslie Chihuly, said they don’t want to omit from his legacy a large part of who he is.”