EDIT: I knew I should have read yesterday’s Fine Art section of the Times before the Performing Arts. All this interest in Bassano was undoubtedly sparked by Carol Vogel’s “Inside Art” column, in which Keith Christiansen tells the story about trustee Mark Fisch buying the painting for the Museum that would have been indiscreet [...]
Entries from February 2009
February 27, 2009
Last chance — Calder Jewelry at the Metropolitan
This delicious little exhibition closes Sunday, March 1. The rings, pins, necklaces, and uncategorizable breastplate-collars are full of the economy and wit and the organic forms-in-motion of Alexander Calder’s Circus and his stabiles and mobiles. He uses brass and steel and precious metals, but also broken plates and fragments of a red car reflector, [...]
February 26, 2009
Township Typography
Township Typography | Super Duper Industries | Shane Durrant | +27 83 460 3015.
Hand-painted shop signs from South Africa. Check out the fab lettering on Onas Hair Beauty.
February 19, 2009
Sweden’s Shakespeare?
Received an intriguing invitation from a singing friend (good singer, too): a concert of music and poetry by Carl Michael Bellman, 18C Swedish poet and composer. Brett says:
This concert introduces the life and music of Carl Michael Bellman, the most influential poet of all time in Sweden. Bellman was not only a poet and [...]
February 18, 2009
At the corner of Trad and Zorn
The New York shape-note gang has been invited to lead a Sacred Harp demo at John Zorn’s downtown venue, The Stone, on Friday night; it’ll be followed by a performance by local trad-based new-music guy Sam Amidon. 8:00 at the Stone, Avenue C & 2nd Street. I’m interested to see what kind of [...]
February 16, 2009
Last chance — Art & Love in Renaissance Italy at the Metropolitan
Absolutely the last day! The Met’s open today (Mon Feb 16), dash over NOW if you haven’t seen this show. The Presidents would be proud. (Okay, I made that part up.)
It’s a big show with a lot of stuff, not a stream of acknowledged masterworks, reflecting the domestic, family, and sensual lives [...]
February 15, 2009
Language Log » Musical protolanguage: Darwin’s theory of language evolution revisited
Language Log » Musical protolanguage: Darwin’s theory of language evolution revisited.
Via Language Log and in honor of Darwin Day, W. Tecumseh Fitch shines a new light on Darwin’s concept of the evolution of language.
And a response by Derek Bickerton, here.
February 11, 2009
Hilliard correction
It was pointed out to me that the Hilliard Ens. concert on Sunday 2/15 at the Cloisters is at 3:00, not at 4:00, as initially posted on Coming Attractions. Sorry to mislead, it’s corrected now. (Also added a new event for this Saturday, Vox Vocal Ensemble at St. Mary the Virgin.)
February 10, 2009
updates and regrets
Coming Attractions updated with half a dozen fresh music-before-1700 (mostly) events. For later Baroque and ff, see polyphony.com (sidebar) for even more. The regrets are all the concerts I’ve been to & failed to report on. Maybe one day.
February 3, 2009
Orlando Consort at the Metropolitan Museum
The vocal quartet Orlando Consort will perform a concert in connection with the Art & Love in Renaissance Italy exhibition — I guess it will be about love in Renaissance Italy, hmm. Next Tuesday, Feb. 10, at the Metropolitan Museum, not Opera, at 8:00. I can’t find a complete program, just a note that [...]
