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...It’s very interesting to look at creativity, both musical and artistic, within these newly formed African communities in North America,” Shelemay said. Shreffler, the Ditson professor of music, said she plans to complete a book to be titled, “New Music, Avant-Garde, and Politics in the Early Cold War (1945-63).” “With teaching it’s hard to have continuous time to concentrate,” Shreffler said. “You like to have periods when you can focus on teaching and periods...
...Budapest in 1948. "My parents took me to the Louvre and the Mus?e d'Art Moderne," he recalls, "and I just fell in love with art." After Paris they settled in Sydney, where Kaldor would eventually take over the family textile business. But it was among the international avant-garde that he felt most at home. In 1969, Kaldor invited then-unknown conceptualists Christo and Jeanne-Claude to Australia, where they veiled 2.4 km of cliff just south of Sydney in 93,000 sq. m of synthetic cloth, the first of their public "wrappings." And in a dozen commissions since...
...Whatever their motivations, green artists are often on the cutting edge of social issues and avant-garde art. According to Moore, these projects are doing exactly what art should do—making a profound impact on society...
...thunderous in their denouncement of such conformity, but they are its ideologues. Design Hotels-a group whose 142 member properties probably corner the world market in white furniture and puzzling chrome ornaments-compiles the raving apologia of academics and designers in its own, biannual journal (sample: "Hotels of the avant-garde are rapidly becoming the starting points for experiences of reality that allow orientation in a world that is both falling apart and coming together"). Thames & Hudson publishes the Hip Hotels series, an anthology of vacuity, as well as the StyleCity collection of travel guides. To enter the latter...
...Rutan notes that the risk of dying on early planes was one in 6,000. Today, it's one in several million. He's not going to fly until he's sure today's spaceships are as safe as early planes, he says. "This isn't something for crazy avant-garde adventurers. This is not an Everest climb. I don't think Richard Branson would be comfortable thinking this is a long shot because he is already selling tickets...