2019: In downtown Monterey, California, Cooper Molera Adobe is bringing history back to life. Wander through the orchard and Cooper Adobe, free of charge, to see changing exhibits on the stories of this remarkable property—and of historic Monterey—from the time when Monterey was the capital of Mexico’s largest province through today. Stroll from the Tuesday night Farmer’s Market on Alvarado Street to Cooper Molera’s welcoming grounds and gardens. See the only historic barns within the city limits of Monterey, and start planning your own event in the Barns at Cooper Molera. And, coming soon, enjoy creative, seasonally inspired cuisine at the Alta Bakery and Cafe, as well as at Cella Restaurant, both successful examples of adaptive reuse projects for historic adobe structures. Read more, see pictures, and find information on visitation at https://savingplaces.org/places/cooper-molera-adobe#.XbroH5pKjCA
vicissitude (plural vicissitudes) noun Regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange. Synonym: ups and downs (informal) (often in the plural) A change, especially in one's life or fortunes. quotations ▼
A choreopoem is a form of dramatic expression that combines poetry, dance, music, and song. The term was first coined in 1975 by American writer Ntozake Shange in a description of her work, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Shange's attempt to depart from traditional western poetry and storytelling resulted in a new art form that doesn't contain specific plot elements or characters, but instead focuses on creating an emotional response from the audience. In Shange’s work, nontraditional spelling and vernacular are aspects of this genre that differ from traditional American literature. She emphasizes the importance of movement and nonverbal communication throughout the choreopoem so that it is able to function as a theatrical piece rather than being limited to poetry or dance. The "XX Chromosome Genome Project" by S. Ann Johnson is a contemporary example of a choreopoem. It combines poetry, song and dance to illuminate the commonalities and differences between women of various cultures. In this choreopoem, Johnson writes about eight women in search of self-acceptance and liberation. These colorfully dressed women, who are named after flavors of foods, represent international cultures around the world through music, spoken word, and movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choreopoem
Big Data vs. Big Dada: Writing Poetry on Demand at a New Orleans Tech Convention by Benjamin Aleshire I’m a poet. I was hired by an intermediary, a “boutique” event-management company, which produces over four thousand events per year on every continent. They tapped me to assemble a dream-team of local poets, to spontaneously compose verse on typewriters for conference attendees—a service for which they would remunerate us handsomely. Making a living as a poet-for-hire with a typewriter has been a tradition in New Orleans for decades, though usually I ply my trade plein-air—setting up a folding table on Royal Street in the French Quarter. Read extensive article at https://lithub.com/big-data-vs-big-dada-writing-poetry-on-demand-at-a-new-orleans-tech-convention/
John Ruskin, a Wreath of Emotion by Verlyn Klinkenborg Looking back nearly forty years, I find that I once wrote the following words: “The nineteenth century was rich in presiding intellects… but after the publication of the first volume of Modern Painters in 1843, it had only one nervous system, and that was Ruskin’s.” At the time, I was a doctoral candidate in English literature at Princeton and a curatorial assistant at the Pierpont Morgan Library, writing catalog entries for an exhibition of the library’s British literary manuscripts. The sentence I’ve quoted represents the summit of my Ruskin knowledge for the next forty years until I reread Praeterita, his late, incomplete autobiography—“this too dimly explicit narrative,” he called it—with a student at Yale last month in this, the two hundredth year since John Ruskin was born. Read more and see pictures at https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/11/05/john-ruskin-a-wreath-of-emotion/ “Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin” is at the Yale Center for British Art through December 8, 2019.
Probably the most famous painter you never heard of, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770), was one of the last of the Old Masters of European painting. His eye-popping, colour-drenched frescos depicting fantastical scenes were painted onto walls and ceilings across Italy during the 1700s, crowning the palaces of grateful princes and kings as far away as Spain and Germany. He even had two shades of colour posthumously named after of him, too—Tiepolo Red and Tiepolo Pink—by none other than early 20th-century French novelist Marcel Proust. Read more and see pictures at https://www.paulmccartney.com/news-blogs/news/paintings-on-the-wall-tiepolo
Apple has restored a cultural, historic, and civic icon in the heart of the nation’s capital to serve as its newest retail store. With the recent launch of Apple Carnegie Library, the tech giant has opened its most extensively renovated retail space to date in Washington, D.C. Foster + Partners led the $30 million, two-year renovation of the historic Carnegie Library, a 1903 Beaux-Arts building in D.C.’s Mount Vernon Square. The new store aligns closely with Apple‘s rebranding of its retail spaces as “town squares” rather than stores, often located in historic and iconic sites and buildings, and intended to be used for more than just selling phones and computers. Apple Carnegie is the 13th such location to try to deliver on that concept. The Carnegie Library was the District’s first public library and first desegregated public building and served as D.C.’s central library until 1970. It then sat as a party rental space until the D.C. Historical Society garnered a rent-free 99-year lease with the city in 1999. The society launched a City Museum of Washington, D.C., in the building in 2003, but it closed just one year later. Since then, the library building has been targeted for a range of never-built proposals, including as a music museum and an international spy museum. Apple Carnegie Library also includes new programming for several acres of Mount Vernon Square, an urban park in the heart of downtown D.C. that the library is sited on. The plaza in front of the southern entrance will be dedicated to public concerts and events. Meanwhile, the grand staircase leads visitors to the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., which will remain as the building’s long-term tenant. In the basement, the Carnegie Gallery is dedicated to educating the public about the history of the building through archival materials and photographs. Sukjong Hong May 14, 2019 https://archpaper.com/2019/05/apple-carnegie-library-washington-dc/#gallery-0-slide-0
See also http://www.dchistory.org/exhibits/digital/carnegiehistory/
Many Japanese women are fighting for the right to wear eyeglasses to work, a new front in the growing movement that demands an end to the prescriptive beauty standards faced by female employees. The hashtag “glasses ban” started trending on Twitter on November 6, 2019 after Nippon TV aired a story about companies that require female employees to wear contact lenses instead of glasses. One post decrying such policies racked up almost 25,000 retweets. One Twitter user said she was told by her previous employer that glasses didn’t appeal to customers, while another said she was compelled to endure the pain of wearing contact lenses while recovering from an eye infection. “The emphasis on appearance is often on young women and wanting them to look feminine,” Banri Yanagi, a 40-year-old sales associate at a life insurer in Tokyo, said in an interview. “It’s strange to allow men to wear glasses but not women.” Kurumi Mori
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/national/social-issues/women-glasses-japan-twitter/#.Xcbe_jNKjCA
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2180 November 11, 2019
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