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...During the folk boom, each Odetta gig, in coffeehouse or concert hall, was a master class of work songs, folk songs, church songs, and an eloquent tutorial in raw American history. Identifiable from the first syllable, her voice fused the thrill of gospel, the techniques of art song - the wisdom that subtlety sometimes trumps volume - and the desperate wail of blues. If a line could be drawn from Bessie Smith to Janis Joplin, from Mahalia Jackson to Maria Callas, it would have to go through Odetta...
This from a legislative body that has raised money-wasting to an art form. It wasn't too long ago that members of Congress often mistook corporate aircraft for the Congressional Airline. "Hitching" a ride on corporate jets was such a regular event, and so abused a privilege, that eventually the solons had to stop themselves. There was nothing to stop Senator John McCain from using his wife's jet to make dozens of campaign stops this year, contravening but not breaking election laws because he, or at least Mrs. McC, "owned" the aircraft through a family company. (Read...
...don’t think I would still be working for magazines if I didn’t believe you could break through and do things that were really wonderful. But, that being said, magazines are working with other people, and there’s an editor and an art director. If you want to do pure work, you should do books. That’s where the pure work...
...MIAMI Art Basel This fair has become a major event for art-world players who want to view what's new, including works like The Beatles (below) by Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov...
...Acho more than a decade ago, blamed the news media, wealth Peruvians and the Catholic Church for perpetuating the annual ritual. "I wouldn't care if I were the only one here, someone has to stand up and say enough," he said. "This is not a sport or art. It is cruelty...