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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Bustin' Loose
D.C.
Commission on the Arts and Humanities' Executive Director, Lionell
Thomas released the following statement on the passing of Go-Go music
legend, Chuck Brown.
"The
DC arts community mourns the passing of music icon, Chuck Brown. Chuck
was a musical legend that helped shape the musical identity of this
city. His music touched the lives of generations of Washingtonians, and
he will forever be known as the Godfather of Go-Go. Our condolences go
out to his family and friends. May he rest in peace."
Europe's oldest rock art depicts a...
The oldest rock art ever found in Europe reveals an interest in the female form — and the type of décor that the first Europeans preferred for their living spaces.
The new discovery, uncovered at a site called Abri Castanet in France, consists mainly of circular carvings most likely meant to represent the vulva.Read more: here.
Peter Plagens on Art and Age
As you get older, in the art world as elsewhere, you"re confronted with some choices about how to conduct yourself. You can, for instance, stay locked in the style you strutted when you were younger and hipperthat is, continuing to wear a ponytail and tight cowboy shirts with mother-of-pearl buttons long after you"ve gone bald on top and acquired a gut. Or you can try to keep up with today"s younger people by copying their fashions: Shave your head, wear small, expensive blue Italian sunglasses and a shiny suit over a black T-shirt and try to blend in with the 30something critics and curators. Or you can just give up altogether on trying to wax contemporaryand wear bow ties, tweed jackets with elbow patches, and take your proud place as a naysayer who thinks that this time the art world really has gone to hell in a hand basket.Read the whole thing here.
I find myself thinking about this stuff lately because I"m now almost 70 an age I seem to have reached suddenly, and quite unjustly, overnight.
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