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...bright May day, and the arts wing at Gustav A. Fritsche Middle School in Milwaukee, Wis., is hopping. In a band room, 21 members of the jazz ensemble are rehearsing Soul Bossa Nova with plenty of heart and impressive intonation, in preparation for a concert downtown. In another room, woodblocks, timpani and bells are whipping up a rhythmic frenzy as the 75-member Fritsche Philharmonic Orchestra tackles Elliott Del Borgo's Aboriginal Rituals. In an art room, eighth-graders are shaping clay vessels to be baked in the school kiln. Down the hall, students are dabbing acrylic paints on canvas...
...comparison to the engaging second. The opening piece, “Smetana Fanfare,” by Czech composer Karl Husa, opened with majestic held chords, but then devolved into a monotone rhythm exercise, suggestive of an abridged version of “Mars,” from Gustav Holst’s “The Planets...
Reproductions of Gustav Klimt’s “Pear Tree”—often referred to as the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s one great painting—flap on the banners outside of the Fogg, attempting to lure visitors into the Busch-Reisinger’s unique exhibit, “‘As though my body were naught but ciphers:’ Crises of Representation in Fin-de Siècle Vienna.” The exhibit’s forty pieces are on display in a single room...
...George Gustav Heye was a whimsically self-indulgent New York City banker who plowed his millions into a massive collection of American Indian objects. He discovered his life's mission as a 23-year-old engineering graduate of Columbia University, working as a railroad-construction superintendent in Kingman, Ariz. It was 1897, a moment--after American soldiers had killed Sitting Bull, massacred hundreds at Wounded Knee and captured Geronimo--when the white conflict with Native Americans was at last almost entirely decided in the settlers' favor. Indians were beginning their final transition in the white imagination from serious competitors...
...Trashing Modern Art London's Tate Britain art gallery admitted that a cleaning woman threw out one of its exhibits, thinking it was trash. That was understandable, since the artwork in question was a transparent garbage bag filled with waste paper and cardboard - part of an installation by artist Gustav Metzger...