Arts Alive
http://www.artsalive.ca/en/dan/dance1...
The aim of ArtsAlive.ca Dance is to enhance your enjoyment of dance by providing the background and knowledge you seek. Maybe you want to learn how to assess and critique a performance; gain greater appreciation for the elements of dance on stage and off; find out who’s who in the world of dance – all this and more is at your fingertips, through ArtsAlive.ca Dance.
The Real Thing: Contemporary Chinese
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhi...
The energy of the Chinese arts world is not contained, codified, and confined like a lot of work elsewhere; there is a plurality of practice and style, none of which can be said to represent Chinese art. Any idea of a unitary or coherent identity, for the country as much as for the art, has collapsed into an open space of possibility and opportunity.
Photography at the Bauhaus
http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/phbh...
Founded by the architect Walter Gropius (1883–1969) in 1919, the Bauhaus was a utopian haven for avant-garde artists during the period of radical change and tenuous peace in Germany after World War I. A war veteran, Gropius found his battered country badly in need of rejuvenation and believed that the collective of Bauhaus artists could play an important role in that process. Based on the concept of the medieval cooperative of artists and craftsmen combining their talents to build the great Gothic cathedrals, the progressive school of art and design sought to bring together the fine and applied arts, human ingenuity, and modern technology in order to help construct a new rational, egalitarian, and ordered society.
read more at this excellent overview from the MET as well as related articles on photography from the same period
