Two weeks, at Balse.

Igor Stravinsky permanently relocated to LA in 1940. The previous year, lost his daughter, wife, and mother. Stayed in LA for the next 23 years, died 6 April 1971 in NY, buried in Venezia. Stravinsky at LA Phil

Aaron Copland, Clarinet by the magical Boris Allakhverdyan - LA PHIL

Flying through time and space. Photos essay reporting from Nov 2023, Marrakech, Sahara, Morocco by Yohei Abe released.

ClassicAsobi continues his NY concert 2023/2024 season, checkout his postings on Tannhäuser, Franz Welser-Möst and Bartok.

Snow Strippers, the Detroit duo.

then there is coucou, another big recent favorite.

Now study Das Rheingold and gotta love Snow Strippers and ALIEN art centre.

thus spoke Zarathustra.

till next time.

Charles A. Balse

Words of Wisdom

from AKADEMIE X - LESSONS IN ART + LIFE

Tutor: Katharina Grosse
Lesson: The Artist as a Link Among other Links

how I see the world: I do not see borders - not between foreground or background, nor between the visible and the invisible. I do not perceive the world through its recognizable forms, but through its possible appearances. I see the world as it is - as illusion.
I realized that thinking is performative and therefore thoughts project space. I change the world by thinking about it in different ways and by giving space to these thoughts. Therefore I can actively create past, present and future and let them happen at the same time.

Tutor: Dan Graham

Lesson: Art Schools at Their Best and Worst

BEST

WORST

The emphasis, since the 1980s, on making art as a specialist professional ‘career’ rather than as a passionate experiment.
The obsession with the artist as a future ‘art star’.
The obsession with making an academic rationale for art, a good example being the overuse of the world ‘problematize’.
Teaching only the contemporary art that is found in the art magazines in the library.