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Inside sources reveal that downtown gallery Corporate Canvas is closing. Couldn’t pay their bills, apparently. Too bad—that was a really nice space, and kind of a bellwether for the south of Market area. We’ve been to a bunch for events, for Fourth Friday Gallery nights.
Apropos of a conversation our very sophisticated wine group took up last night about race, in which both overt racism and deeper-down race fear sublimated into other parts of our lives figured prominently, the Sunday NY Times has a really well-written short history of race in the arts—and of race as itself a kind of […]
Duke U. postmodernist luminary and literary critic Stanley Fish has a blog at NY Times, and has started a great conversation about the “use” of the humanities with his posting Will the Humanities Save Us? and its follow-up yesterday, The Uses of the Humanities, Part Two. Great discussion about “art for art’s sake”, the instrumental […]
Rachel and I talk about the problem of the Cameron Museum.
We went last night and it was perfectly pleasant. The evening was a trifecta—some of the work was great; afterwards, we got burritos at the funky and incomparable Flaming Amy’s, then stopped by Harris Teater’s on the way home for a twelver of Amstel Light […]
My Wilmington magazine profile of Ruth Funk, head of the Alliance for a Regional Concert Hall (archwilmington.org), looks like it was just published.
Ruth Funk just laughs dismissively when her husband Frank says she is the world’s foremost authority on performance halls. But she may be. As she describes what a larger, high-quality venue would bring […]