“The Creative Economy,” and Malcolm Cowley
Source: CultureCrash | Published on 2014-02-12
Will Venice Get An Islamic Art Museum? Free?
Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2014-02-13
Flying with Broken Wings
Source: Dancebeat | Published on 2014-02-13
Under the Influence: Pawel Althamer’s States of Consciousness at New Museum (with video)
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“Chu has led the Kansas City’s Kauffman Center since 2006. She was an executive at the Kauffman Fund for Kansas City from 2004 to 2006, and VP of external relations for Union Station Kansas City from 2002 to 2004. She also has degrees in visual arts, piano performance and music education.”
“We’re at an excitingly early stage in working out how to best produce and provide news in a social world. There are lots of business models that might work; there are also editorial models that look like they work until they don’t. But if you look at the news business as a whole, rather than at individual companies, it’s almost impossible not to be incredibly optimistic.”
“This is a book that cries out like one of his maudlin ditties to be edited. But were an editor to start, there would be no stopping. It is a heavy tome, utterly devoid of insight, warmth, wisdom or likeability,” writes Gill.
The new revelation “follows a wave of damning revelations about the influence of super-wealthy political interests over public broadcasting. Thanks to collusion with PBS executives, those monied interests are increasingly permitted to launder their ideological and self-serving messages through the seeming objectivity of public television.”
“I’m curious to know what would happen if an organization advertised the fact that it pays its artists and collaborators fees that are respectful of the artist’s work. To me, it would demonstrate a deeper commitment to the arts than any mission statement ever could.”
“In the last decade, dance on TV has become popular, sometimes wildly so. Dancing With the Stars launched in 2004 and is one of Nielsen’s highest-rated primetime programs. So You Think You Can Dance (2005) has had rating ups and downs but its contestants are generally exceptional and it has a strong fan base.”
“I think theatre has realised somewhat belatedly that it can no longer provide adequate competition for kids watching videos or computer games. It has to get the liveness back, and that is the only think it trades on.”
Today, opera is routinely styled as the antithesis of everyday life. The clash of opera (assumed to be “posh”) with “ordinary people” is a formula wheeled out repeatedly in reality TV series such as From Pop Star to Opera Star and Maestro at the Opera.
“Hollywood is the closest thing the business world has to a Roman Empire: a largely self-sustaining, self-contained industry, reigning supreme over most premium content in most media channels. And like Rome, the entertainment business has plenty of enemies who’d love to watch it burn. They probably won’t get their wish.”
Here’s what three hypothetical artists of different sizes might be pulling down for each album they make, based on musician interviews and industry gossip.
“In the medieval world, news was usually exchanged amid the babble of the marketplace or the tavern, where truth competed with rumour, mishearing and misunderstanding. In some respects, it is to that world that we seem to be returning.”
Despite astonishment and outrage to the ghostwriting scandal, music credited to Mamoru Samuragochi is surging in sales. “Hiroshima” was No. 1 in classical CD sales in the latest Oricon weekly ranking and surged to No. 27 overall in Japan, selling more than 2,000 copies over the past week. His label has said it will stop sales.
“In a context hugely dominated by specialization, the generalist gets very strange opportunities. There are very few people left to connect the dots. Being a laymen with curiosity, which both of them often are, becomes a virtue.”
“It seems that people who use their smartphones while watching their favorite shows are only doing so to distract themselves during commercials — not good for advertisers — though they do often look up websites related to the show.”
“Hollywood still isn’t reflecting the nation’s diversity in its entertainment products, and that omission is costing the industry considerable amounts in lost revenues.”
“Simply put, nobody wants to pay prices in the middle anymore… So the arts have figured out how to play the upmarket game. But what about the other end? Where is the Dollar Tree of the arts?”
“The Amazons and Netflixes of the world are starting to look more like traditional networks with their own unique, increasingly robust programming lineups, while continuing to charge full stream ahead into a future where television gets delivered via the Internet.”
“Poetry is dead by capitalism’s standards—it is not an obvious moneymaking venture, despite traceable employment and readings’ payoffs via the academy—and that emboldens some folks limited by capitalist blinders to herald poetry’s last breath.”
And why YouTube and Hulu are more like the Mongols and Manchus than like the Vandals and Visigoths.
Surely the anti-Lindsay Lohan, STB, who has died at age 85, was a creature of Hollywood who survived being the most famous preschooler on the planet to become a well-adjusted, successful, meltdown-free adult. “If she emerged unscarred, it’s not for the film industry’s lack of trying.” How did she do it?
“Neuroscientists may have figured out what’s behind a visual trick that puzzled Galileo Galilei and stumped many others for centuries. The answer to this trompe l’oeil also could explain why Mom and Dad always warned that it’s bad to read in dim light.”
Lyn Gardner has what’s probably the best answer.
It seems unnecessary in hindsight, but in 1942 and ’43, after Pearl Harbor and the bombing of Britain, air attacks on the U.S. mainland seemed like a real danger. Here are the (considerable) steps some art institutions took to protect their holdings.
“I am 26 years old so I dress for 26. I can dress in long skirts when I am 40. Anyway I have many different styles, I don’t only wear short. I don’t understand why I have to explain this,”
Director Eléonore Pourriat uploaded her five-year-old short film Oppressed Majority (Majorité Opprimée) to YouTube last week. It’s been viewed 2.3 million times so far.
“After asking why everyone in their house was so glum, [his young daughter] said: ‘The violin? Why are we still talking about the violin? That was five days ago.'”
Currently the chief conductor of the Zurich Opera House and the Orchestre National de France, and frequently considered a frontrunner for a major post in the U.S., Gatti is suffering from inflamed shoulder tendons.
That’s what a newly-translated 3,700-year-old cuneiform tablet says. (There are even instructions for building one.)
To be more specific, they’ll be made of fungus and corn stalks. They’ll be at MoMA’s P.S. 1 outpost this summer.
