Out and About: Frank Gehry’s Paper Bag Building; Digitized Music, Old and New
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Alex Ross and Norman Lebrecht examine digitized music manuscripts from the Morgan Library.
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A couple of Israelis have recorded a song entirely using iPhone apps — and it’s a hit.
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A forthcoming biography of J.D. Salinger and Henry Kissinger’s “On China” are among The Daily Beast’s most anticipated books of 2011.
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Is Frank Gehry’s design for the University of Technology, Sydney, a colossal mistake?
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Ari Y. Kleman traces the history of one of Israel’s most popular folk songs.
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Kevin Spacey talks about playing Jack Abramoff in “Casino Jack” (reviewed on The Arty Semite here).
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Sasha Abramsky remembers his grandfather, Chimen, a self-taught polymath who became a hub of British post-war intellectual culture.
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Art critic, novelist, and Jackson Pollock biographer B.H. Friedman has died, as has beloved singer-songwriter Debbie Friedman.
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Abraham Inc., whose first album, “Tweet Tweet,” I wrote about here, has released their first music video:
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