The Guggenheim Is Proving That Museums Arenât Just to Be Seen
The famed institution â and others â are reaching out to audiences who cannot connect to art in typical ways.
A participant in a Mind’s Eye program at the Guggenheim Museum, in 2019. The program, which serves the blind and partially sighted, includes a sensory tour featuring the actors Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bobby Canavale and BD Wong.Credit.David Heald/Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York
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Several eminent New Yorkers were by my side on a recent visit to the Guggenheim Museum.
âFrom bottom to top, the building is like a crescendo,â the actress Maggie Gyllenhaal told me as I climbed the rotundaâs massive, spiraling walkway. Later, I ran my fingers along the bumpy edge of the footpathâs low outer wall. âThe highest overlook may be the most tactile spot in the whole space,â Ms. Gyllenhaal said.
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A forecast for fun, flashbacks and fashion is set for regional Central Queensland, when ABC’s weather presenter Jenny Woodward takes her one-woman stage show on the road.
Combining comedy, live music, video projections and a killer script with Ms Woodward’s natural wit and charm, Weathering Well is an 80-minute autobiographical theatre experience with a high probability of intriguing anecdotes and behind-the-scenes revelations.
“I’m also going to talk about hairstyles and fashion and how they’ve changed over the years and I’ve got some fairly startling photos which I am going to share,” she said.
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I recently wrote about a coming ad blitz from Gov. Murphy’s reelection campaign, which maxed out the $7.3 million it’s allowed to raise in the matching fund program for the primary but has so far not run a single ad.
OCEAN CITY â A plan for massive wind turbines off the coast received pushback at a recent Ocean City Council meeting, in which a council member questioned its impact on the local tourism economy. Â
âIâm as green as the next guy. I want green energy, OK? But I do not want to mess with a formula that has worked here for 100 years,â said Councilman Michael DeVlieger. Â
Kris Ohleth, a spokeswoman for the energy company Ãrsted, gave a presentation at the Dec. 4 council meeting, outlining the plans for Ocean Wind, a massive wind energy project planned 15 miles off the New Jersey coast, running roughly from Atlantic City to Stone Harbor. Â