At The New Museum: Make Your Own Exhibition Art
Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2013-12-18
Archives for December 17, 2013
China’s New Mega-Collectors
“They joust with one another at auction houses, where the fevered bidding has driven up prices to the point that some jades, ceramics, calligraphy and paintings now fetch huge sums. In 2011, for instance, a Ming dynasty vase sold for $140 million at an auction in Macau.”
Rethinking How We Design For The Coast In The Age Of SuperStorms
“It’s emblematic of how coastal design is moving away from costly, large-scale walls and sea barriers that only work until overtaken by inexorable sea level rise.”
Some New Models For Producing/Paying For Soundtracks
“With video content proliferating, new models for supplying background music are taking root, with many trying to bring down the cost and avoid the complicated royalty-payment rules.”
A New Industry In Reviving Dead Literary Characters
“The incentive for publishers and the estates of dead authors is clear: keeping the brand alive expands the number of titles from which revenue can be gained, while fuelling interest in the original works. But what impact do literary franchises have on the industry’s appetite for new talent?”
289 Movies Are Eligible For Oscar’s Best Picture
“To be considered, films must open in a commercial cinema in Los Angeles County by midnight on 31 December and run for at least seven consecutive days.”
If We Get Too Good Will We Lose Our Ability To Fail?
“Certainly the promise of continual human progress and improvement is alluring. But there is a danger there, too — that in this more perfect future, failure will become obsolete.”
Author Hired To Write Stieg Larsson Sequel
“The head of publishing at Norstedts, Eva Gedin, told The Associated Press the book will be an original work that includes nothing from the fourth book in the series that Larsson began writing but hadn’t finished when he died.”
Sundance Festival Makes A Play For Theatre (Did You Even Know They Did Theatre?)
“Sundance’s growing influence on theater comes after two decades of gradually increasing the number of labs and workshops it holds each year and broadening its search for the next great, risk-taking playwright.”
Want To Know What America Is Thinking? Let’s Go To The Google 2013 Search Rankings
What’s especially revealing are Americans’ searches that begin with “what is” and “how to.”
The Future Of Trying To Be A Musician
“It’s becoming much more difficult to be a reclusive artist and make a living. The system has become weirdly Darwinian. But you need to look at the larger picture: the record industry did create a safe space for shy artists like PJ Harvey or Cat Power, but artists always had to market themselves.”
Why Is Canada’s Largest Opera Company So Nervous About New Opera?
“Imagine the Art Gallery of Ontario going 19 years without a single showing of any new Canadian art. It would be hard to think of a rationale for that scenario, although the COC, which receives about $4.5-million annually in public funding, is always quick to say that new work is too expensive and risky for regular consumption. But does that really need to be true, for the biggest opera company in the country?”
Art In 2013 – Only For The Wealthy?
“Art and critical thinking, yes. Art and enchantment, for certain. Without both, or without either, art and its encircling vocation of criticism risk irrelevance. A bigger problem is the culture of prohibitions we seem to be engendering against creativity.”
The Hopi Nation Gets A Secret Santa For Its Sacred Objects
This foundation (you’ve heard of it) joined anonymously in bidding for a group of sacred Hopi artifacts being auctioned in Paris – with the aim of returning them to their creators’ descendants.
Was Helen Mirren’s Evening Standard Award Rigged?
Three of the five outside jurors for the prestigious London theatre honours have quit – the first mass resignation in the event’s half-century history. Matt Trueman explains what the ballyhoo is all about.
Juror: “‘My Jaw Dropped When Helen Mirren Won The Award”
“There is scandal in theatreland following the resignation of three judges from the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Charles Spencer, one of the resigning judges, reveals what really happened and why he quit.”
British Library Puts A Million Images On Flickr For Public Use
“In an inspired gesture to encourage digital crowdsourcing, the British Library has uploaded one million scans from 17th- to 19th-century books to Flickr for public domain use.”
Novelist Hugh Nissenson, 80
“[His] books were immersive journeys that often explored religion, particularly Judaism, often to high praise by reviewers. They were not strong sellers, however, and throughout his life Mr. Nissenson struggled with depression … But he never stopped writing.”
New Zealand Gives More Tax Breaks For Avatar Sequels
Kiwi taxpayers will cover 25% of the cost for three new films.
Is This The Choreographers’ App We Never Dared Hope For?
Meet Jeff Whiting, choreographer/director and creator of Stage Write, “an app which makes documenting stage blocking and choreography a fast, fluid, clinical and permanent affair.”
Toe Care Secrets Of The Royal Ballet
You might be appalled – or impressed – at the materials these dancers repurpose for use in their ballet slippers.
Ireland Creates A Fiction Laureate Position
“Now that it’s exiting from the foreign bailout program, Ireland is making a new investment: in fiction. The country’s Arts Council has announced that it is creating a Laureate for Irish Fiction, ‘to promote Irish literature nationally and internationally and to encourage the public to engage with high-quality Irish fiction’.”
Connecticut School Production Of Rent Is Back On
Every so often, a student campaign works.
Meet The World’s Oldest Working Actor
“Romanian actor Radu Beligan has been declared the world’s oldest active actor at age 95.”