Arts news

• The Literary Jimmy Carter

  30-12-2024 20:02 via nytimes.com
  Publishing 32 books over the course of his life, he wasn’t simply prolific, as far as former presidents go. His output also displayed an extraordinary range that included historical fiction, poetry and meditations on the meaning of faith and the splendor of nature. There was even a coffee-table book on woodworking. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• What Caused Deterioration Of Maria Callas’ Voice?

  30-12-2024 19:31 via theconversation.com
  
  In recent years, a study quantified the audible differences between her recordings of Tosca and Nabucco, a decade apart. They found that she had become increasingly sharp, irregular and unstable. What prompted the demise of this iconic voice has been a subject of hot debate in the operatic world. – The Conversation
  
  Read more

• Why Teachers Are Leaving The Profession

  30-12-2024 19:15 via compactmag.com
  
  Individual teachers, school boards, and think tanks are attempting to find ways to improve teachers’ working conditions so as to combat burnout, proposing a variety of measures ranging from increasing pay and benefits to offering coverage for mental health care. But such measures fail to address the deeper problem. – Compact Magazine
  
  Read more

• How History Has Become “Post-Literate”

  30-12-2024 18:44 via compactmag.com
  
   It is now difficult to imagine the mass of general readers—assuming they exist—being reached even by a historian of genius. Historiography is becoming stuck. – Compact Magazine
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• ‘A Renaissance man’: Jimmy Carter remembered for contributions to arts

  30-12-2024 18:40
  
  Musicians and actors pay tribute to three-time Grammy-winning former US president, who died on Sunday aged 100Jimmy Carter will likely be remembered for his contributions to the arts – beyond being a three-time Grammy winner – more than any other US president, and one who is nominated again in 2025 for an audiobook, Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration.Carter, who died on Sunday aged 100, was well-known for his association with musicians, particularly the Allman Brothers
  
  Read more

• How Shen Yun Dance Made $266 Million

  30-12-2024 18:32 via nytimes.com
  By the end of last year, tax records show, it had more than a quarter of a billion dollars, stockpiling wealth at a pace that would be extraordinary for any company, let alone a nonprofit dance group from Orange County, N.Y. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Jimmy Carter On Arts And Culture:

  30-12-2024 18:15 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  “We have no ministry of culture in this country, and I hope we never will. No matter how democratic a government may be, no matter how responsive to the wishes of its people, it can never be government’s role to define exactly what is good, or true or beautiful.” – The Art Newspaper
  
  Read more

• Charles Dolan, Media Pioneer, HBO Founder, 98

  30-12-2024 17:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Charles Dolan was one of the cable TV industry’s most aggressive operators and marketers. He created the nation’s first urban cable television network, Manhattan Cable, in the 1960s. He introduced feature-length, commercial-free movies on cable with his Home Box Office, for subscribers who paid extra to receive it. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Killed birds, rotting sculpture and a PM’s execution: the Pakistani artists who defied a dictator

  30-12-2024 17:34
  
  A dazzling exhibition of Pakistan’s art and architecture – some of it never before loaned outside the country – shows how the repressive 11-year regime of Zia-ul-Haq triggered an extraordinary resistanceThe 11-year religious dictatorship of General Zia-ul-Haq profoundly shaped the art of Pakistan. After the general’s successful coup in 1977, his regime ushered in martial law, trampled on women’s rights, enforced strict censorship and placed draconian restrictions on
  
  Read more

• 2024 Was Supposed To Be Break Dancing’s Breakout Year. It Didn’t Happen

  30-12-2024 17:32 via nytimes.com
  
  “We’re making the same mistakes in our culture. We’re allowing the appropriation, the exportation. We’re trying to fix it for everybody else except for ourselves.” – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• The Pianos Nobody Wants

  30-12-2024 17:15 via cbc.ca
  
  “I would say that the era for old uprights is coming to a close. The inevitability is that one day, those pianos will be gone… The ones that have musical value — yeah, I’m sad about those.” – CBC
  
  Read more

• Some Of The Most Borrowed Books Of 2024

  30-12-2024 17:00 via npr.org
  
  But even the most borrowed books only represent a sliver: “When you actually look at what people read in New York City, it wasn’t like 20% of our audience were only reading these books. It’s only 1%. There is still interest in a broad range of subject areas.” – NPR
  
  Read more

• The Baltimore Small Stage Coalition Emerges From The Pandemic As A Strength

  30-12-2024 16:30 via baltimoremagazine.com
  
  “Their first round of collective auditions took place last January and drew representatives from about 20 statewide companies. The auditions made it possible for casting directors to see actors from across the region and be introduced to talent outside of their organization’s existing roster.” – Baltimore Magazine
  
  Read more

• One Way To Remember Every Day Of Your Life

  30-12-2024 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
   “It occurred to me that if I really did want to remember a few gems about each passing day, why not simply write them down?” – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Despite A Year-Ending Surge, Hollywood Box Office Receipts Are Down From Last Year

  30-12-2024 15:45 via msn.com
  Bad, yes, but on the other hand, no one thought the industry could even partially recover from the first half of the year’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Story and The Fall Guy bombs, so things … might be looking up? – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
  Read more

• Macondo, The TV Version, Versus Colombia, The Real One

  30-12-2024 15:30 via nytimes.com
  
  This is not the fake Colombia of Disney’s Encanto: “Many on the set considered it an honor to be part of the project. Several people told me it would be the most important work they would ever do.” – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Well, Someone Had To Invent The Corridor

  30-12-2024 15:15 via theguardian.com
  “Until John Thorpe, rooms in the great houses of England used to lead on, one from another, all grouped around a central entrance hall, and while some buildings had monastery-style external covered cloisters bordering central courtyards, these were always too nippy for a northern climate.” – The Observer (UK)
  
  Read more

• Pouring champagne and ironing knickers: my day serving the matriarchy as a topless male waiter

  30-12-2024 15:00
  
  The Museum of Old and New Art in nipaluna/Hobart is allowing men into its Ladies Lounge for the first time – as long as they remove their shirts and serve its female patronsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email“Mum”, a drag mistress sporting a severe blonde bob, dresses me in a black tuxedo jacket and tie, chest and belly exposed – then puts me to work ironing knickers. Later, I’m handed a feather duster with which to polish an array of white fibreglass dicks
  
  Read more

• On Movie Endings, Great And Completely, Totally Forgettable

  30-12-2024 15:00 via slate.com
  
  At this task, Gladiator II utterly failed: “None of us could remember how the new movie ended, which was particularly hilarious because we’d all just seen the damn thing; this was a few days after it had screened for critics.” – Slate
  
  Read more

• What You See Depends On Where You Are

  30-12-2024 14:45 via wired.com
  
  Yes, of course, but physicists have reconsidered the idea – and the cool thing is that “quantum reference frames might help resolve some of the weird paradoxes that arise in quantum thought experiments.” – Wired
  
  Read more

• The Hottest Trend In Book Publishing Is Books You Can Really, Truly Judge By Their Covers

  30-12-2024 14:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “Publishers are investing in colorful patterned edges, metallic foil covers, reversible jackets, elaborate artwork on the endpapers, ribbon bookmarks and bonus content.” – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• The President-Elect, Who Once Tried To Ban TikTok, Asks The Supreme Court To Hold Off

  30-12-2024 14:15 via salon.com
  
  “TikTok faces a ban if its parent company, ByteDance, does not follow a new federal law that requires it to be sold to a non-Chinese company by Jan. 19, the day before” the presidential inauguration. – Salon
  
  Read more

• Michel Del Castillo, Who Published A Vivid, Child-Aged Account Of The Holocaust, Has Died At 91

  30-12-2024 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Holocaust scholar Richard Plant said [del Castillo’s book Tanguy] ‘begins where Anne Frank’s diary ended.’ With its graphic account of privation, suffering and death in French and German concentration camps, Mr. Plant warned, it was ‘not meant for the squeamish.’” – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor Says Acting Has Saved Her

  30-12-2024 13:45 via theguardian.com
  And by that, the Nickel Boys actor means, “If I hadn’t been able to filter my insistence on justice, and the rage that I feel because of the lack of it, through [acting work], I would have had a more dangerous life.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
  Read more

• Why Global Audiences Fell For Indian Cinema This Year

  30-12-2024 13:30 via bbc.com
  
  “As Bollywood struggled to find its footing, smaller films by Indian women that told nuanced stories made headlines in the country and across the world.” – BBC
  
  Read more

• Learning Something New From Your Kid About Your Favorite Music

  30-12-2024 13:15 via latimes.com
  
  “Watching someone you love enjoy something has a way of dispelling snobbery.” – Los Angeles Times
  
  Read more

• Just How Much Criterion Channel Does Pamela Anderson Watch?

  30-12-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “I watch every night before I go to bed. I love Godard and Fellini and Herzog and Cassavetes. And Gena Rowlands — she’s my favorite actress.” – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Pharaohs, masks and bronze age boats: six standout new museums around the world in 2025

  30-12-2024 12:00
  
  Openings across Africa and Asia offer new cultural experiences in stunning architectural surroundingsFrom a noisy, performative and unapologetically non-European Yorùbá cultural centre in Lagos, Nigeria, to the much-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, 2024 was a big year for museums opening in the developing world. A number of projects will also be inaugurated in 2025, offering an abundance of new museums to visit in 2025. Here are some of the best of them: Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• I’m obsessed with broken shells: they are marked by life, like our skin

  30-12-2024 07:00
  
  I wind my thread around their holes to create sculptures that connect with ageing and timeI have collected hundreds and hundreds of broken shells. I select them by holding them up to the sea, looking at the shape of them and deciding whether I want to work with them – and whether they will work with my thread.To me, a shell that is broken is more interesting than a shell that is perfect. A broken shell has lived a life. I can see what the sea has done to it, what has happened to it on the
  
  Read more

• Testament to Spain’s golden age to open up its secret spaces after €6m revamp

  30-12-2024 06:00
  
  Unesco-listed San Lorenzo de El Escorial was fulfilment of Philip II’s dream of raising monastery in a ‘desert’Despite perching imperiously on a mountainside near Madrid for the better part of five centuries, the royal monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial has yet to give up all its treasures – or all its secrets.Forty years after it was included on Unesco’s World Heritage list, Philip II’s austere monument to power, piety and patronage is undergoing a major
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUK1 on Twitter!