ArtsJournal: Daily Arts Newstag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//52013-05-19T19:29:36ZMovable Type 3.33Frank Lloyd Wright Homes Are Splendid - Unless You Live In Onetag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340672013-05-19T19:27:46Z2013-05-19T19:29:36Z"It's often tricky to renovate an architectural treasure while preserving Wright's innovations, such as radiant-floor heating, carports, built-in furniture and soaring clerestory windows. Meanwhile, permanent easements held by the Wright conservancy on 16 private Wright residences limit exterior alterations."... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
"It's often tricky to renovate an architectural treasure while preserving Wright's innovations, such as radiant-floor heating, carports, built-in furniture and soaring clerestory windows. Meanwhile, permanent easements held by the Wright conservancy on 16 private Wright residences limit exterior alterations."
The Wall Street Journal 05/16/13
The Ring Machine Goes Bye-Bye, And (Almost) Everyone Says Good Riddancetag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340662013-05-19T19:23:59Z2013-05-19T19:27:09Z"Mr. Gelb suggested that the machine had become a scapegoat. 'One of the reasons the "Ring" has been criticized so much is people disagree with his approach, not the machine,' he said, referring to Mr. Lepage. 'The machine is a victim, not entirely innocent.'"... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
"Mr. Gelb suggested that the machine had become a scapegoat. 'One of the reasons the "Ring" has been criticized so much is people disagree with his approach, not the machine,' he said, referring to Mr. Lepage. 'The machine is a victim, not entirely innocent.'"
The New York Times 05/17/13
Will People Ever Pay For Music Again? [VIDEO]tag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340652013-05-19T19:18:49Z2013-05-19T19:20:54Z"Palmer believes we shouldn't fight the fact that digital content is freely shareable -- and suggests that artists can and should be directly supported by fans."... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
"Palmer believes we shouldn't fight the fact that digital content is freely shareable -- and suggests that artists can and should be directly supported by fans."
NPR 05/17/13
William Miles, 82, Who Brought Black History To The Big (And Small) Screentag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340642013-05-19T19:14:38Z2013-05-19T19:15:58Z"Mr. Miles was part historical sleuth, part preservationist, part bard. His films, which combined archival footage, still photographs and fresh interviews, were triumphs of curiosity and persistence in unearthing lost material about forgotten subjects."... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
"Mr. Miles was part historical sleuth, part preservationist, part bard. His films, which combined archival footage, still photographs and fresh interviews, were triumphs of curiosity and persistence in unearthing lost material about forgotten subjects."
The New York Times 05/18/13
Reveling In Luxury - And Sometimes In The Puritan Comeuppance It Can Bringtag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340632013-05-19T19:10:54Z2013-05-19T19:12:37Z"Much as we may enjoy the spectacle of money, we usually prefer it to be accompanied by sentimental lessons about how there are more important things. We like cautionary tales about the dangers of greed and reassuring distinctions about the sources and uses of wealth."... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
"Much as we may enjoy the spectacle of money, we usually prefer it to be accompanied by sentimental lessons about how there are more important things. We like cautionary tales about the dangers of greed and reassuring distinctions about the sources and uses of wealth."
The New York Times 05/18/13
Eurovision Winner: Denmarktag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340622013-05-19T19:07:27Z2013-05-19T19:09:22ZAnd the biggest loser? Ireland.... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
And the biggest loser? Ireland.
BBC 05/18/13
Sony Pictures Looks Pretty, But The Cracks Are Starting To Showtag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340612013-05-19T19:03:54Z2013-05-19T19:07:08ZIts stars are aging, its profit margins are lower than the other studios - and now an activist investor wants to spin off the entertainment businesses. Tune in this week to see what happens next.... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
Its stars are aging, its profit margins are lower than the other studios - and now an activist investor wants to spin off the entertainment businesses. Tune in this week to see what happens next.
The New York Times 05/18/13
Why Is Gray's 'Elegy' Such A Powerful Meditation On Death?tag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340602013-05-19T18:28:46Z2013-05-19T18:30:36Z"A recent edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations draws from 15 stanzas and reproduces 13 of them whole."... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
"A recent edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations draws from 15 stanzas and reproduces 13 of them whole."
The Wall Street Journal 05/17/13
What Will Big Data Do For, And To, All Of Us? tag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340592013-05-19T18:15:21Z2013-05-19T18:28:13Z"All cops carry smartphones and tablet computers to access the web-based prediction program while on patrol. They are encouraged to spend time in the marked zones whenever possible. Clark can tell many stories about how his officers have caught burglars and thieves red-handed in the predicted zones."... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
"All cops carry smartphones and tablet computers to access the web-based prediction program while on patrol. They are encouraged to spend time in the marked zones whenever possible. Clark can tell many stories about how his officers have caught burglars and thieves red-handed in the predicted zones."
Der Spiegel 05/17/13
Interactive TV: Wonderful - But What About The Robot Overlords?tag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340582013-05-19T18:11:28Z2013-05-19T18:14:10Z"The new smart TVs, like the smartphones and tablets that have shaped them, are meant to seem like devoted servants, concerned with our welfare, eager to anticipate our needs -- happy to collect and digest information we are, or imagine we are, too busy to collect and digest ourselves. It is all a bit flattering."... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
"The new smart TVs, like the smartphones and tablets that have shaped them, are meant to seem like devoted servants, concerned with our welfare, eager to anticipate our needs -- happy to collect and digest information we are, or imagine we are, too busy to collect and digest ourselves. It is all a bit flattering."
Los Angeles Times 05/17/13
Why Is Ballet Leadership Still Dominated By Men?tag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340572013-05-19T18:06:50Z2013-05-19T18:11:13Z"Of the girls who grow up to become top dancers, few have actually graduated into the upper levels of leadership. Right now, the biggest U.S. ballet companies are run by men -- with one exception."... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
"Of the girls who grow up to become top dancers, few have actually graduated into the upper levels of leadership. Right now, the biggest U.S. ballet companies are run by men -- with one exception."
Miami Herald 05/19/13
25 Years On, Does Prozac Harm Or Inspire Creativity?tag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340562013-05-19T18:03:39Z2013-05-19T18:06:04Z"The worry for artists is that in banishing their black dogs they are also dousing the flames of inspiration, blunting the edge of their genius."... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
"The worry for artists is that in banishing their black dogs they are also dousing the flames of inspiration, blunting the edge of their genius."
The Observer (UK) 05/18/13
What, Exactly, Is Going On With The Andy Warhol Foundation?tag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340552013-05-19T17:53:36Z2013-05-19T19:31:23ZIn short: A board authenticating pieces of art it had previously declared fakes, lawsuits, countersuits, and possible reasons for the Foundation's decision to sell all of its Warhols.... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
In short: A board authenticating pieces of art it had previously declared fakes, lawsuits, countersuits, and possible reasons for the Foundation's decision to sell all of its Warhols.
The New York Review of Books 06/20/13
Was Artist Josef Beuys A Serial Liar Who Loved Totalitarian Ideas? tag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340542013-05-19T17:40:16Z2013-05-19T17:42:57ZBeuys "was obsessed with Steiner's occultism and his racial theories -- and with the abstruse ideas of a Germanic soul, a German spirit and a special mission for the German people."... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
Beuys "was obsessed with Steiner's occultism and his racial theories -- and with the abstruse ideas of a Germanic soul, a German spirit and a special mission for the German people."
Der Spiegel 05/17/13
The Kennedy Center Changes Its Award Process - Somewhattag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340532013-05-19T17:38:15Z2013-05-19T17:39:54Z "You still have the same three white males who are going to make that decision. If you keep doing the same thing, you're going to get pretty near the same outcome."... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
"You still have the same three white males who are going to make that decision. If you keep doing the same thing, you're going to get pretty near the same outcome."
Los Angeles Times 05/17/13
Scalpers Will Be Happy To Get You A Ticket To The BBC Proms - For A (Large) Feetag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340522013-05-19T17:34:26Z2013-05-19T17:37:26Z"Families and music lovers are missing out on a British institution just so that a few individuals can make a fortune. The government needs to use the upcoming consumer rights bill to take action on touting and put the fans first."... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
"Families and music lovers are missing out on a British institution just so that a few individuals can make a fortune. The government needs to use the upcoming consumer rights bill to take action on touting and put the fans first."
The Observer (UK) 05/18/13
Intellectual Foodie Parody Performance Art, By Michael Pollantag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340512013-05-19T17:30:29Z2013-05-19T17:34:12Z"What he has decided to do with this broad and influential platform is to turn inward, describing his thought process as he labors over wood fires and onions or as he lobbies for the approval of his bread-baking mentor with a 'crumb shot' of his homemade sourdough."... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
"What he has decided to do with this broad and influential platform is to turn inward, describing his thought process as he labors over wood fires and onions or as he lobbies for the approval of his bread-baking mentor with a 'crumb shot' of his homemade sourdough."
The Smart Set 05/16/13
Shut Up, Big Theatres: Summer Is For The Fringe (Or The Beach)tag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340502013-05-19T17:28:44Z2013-05-19T17:30:15Z"Some smaller theaters are heeding the sage words of the old-time baseball player 'Wee Willie'Keeler, whose advice to batters was 'Hit 'em where they ain't.'''... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
"Some smaller theaters are heeding the sage words of the old-time baseball player 'Wee Willie'Keeler, whose advice to batters was 'Hit 'em where they ain't.'''
The Boston Globe 05/18/13
The Making Of An Audiobooktag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340492013-05-19T17:23:50Z2013-05-19T17:27:10Z"If professional voice actors can flop, some amateurs can be surprisingly good."... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
"If professional voice actors can flop, some amateurs can be surprisingly good."
The New York Times 05/17/13
Can The Cliburn Competition Survive Van Cliburn's Death?tag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340482013-05-19T17:16:59Z2013-05-19T17:20:01Z"For at least the past decade, criticisms have dogged the Cliburn. One common complaint is that few widely embraced performers have emerged from it."... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
"For at least the past decade, criticisms have dogged the Cliburn. One common complaint is that few widely embraced performers have emerged from it."
The New York Times (Texas Monthly) 05/18/13
MoMA's Thirst To Destroy The Folk Art Museum Is Territorialtag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340472013-05-19T17:13:57Z2013-05-19T17:16:15Z"Williams and Tsien's physically small (a mere forty feet wide and eighty-five feet high) but architecturally powerful incursion into MoMA's presumed turf has long been known to be a thorn in the side of Glenn D. Lowry, the Modern's director since 1995."... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/
"Williams and Tsien's physically small (a mere forty feet wide and eighty-five feet high) but architecturally powerful incursion into MoMA's presumed turf has long been known to be a thorn in the side of Glenn D. Lowry, the Modern's director since 1995."
The New York Review of Books 05/23/13
Blockbusters Lining Up To Be Flopstag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340462013-05-17T21:22:56Z2013-05-17T21:24:00Z"Of the expensive action and animated movies, we've never had a summer where more than nine did well, and often it's fewer. This summer you've got 17 blockbusters coming out between May and July, 19 if you add August. Is this going to be by far the biggest summer box office in history? Maybe, if they're all great movies, but it's not likely."... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical
"Of the expensive action and animated movies, we've never had a summer where more than nine did well, and often it's fewer. This summer you've got 17 blockbusters coming out between May and July, 19 if you add August. Is this going to be by far the biggest summer box office in history? Maybe, if they're all great movies, but it's not likely."
The New York Times 05/17/13
Cairo - In Need Of Artistic Revitalizationtag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340452013-05-17T17:46:40Z2013-05-17T17:48:28Z"It's a city of a lot of things hidden and because of neglect and a general feeling of apathy over the last 50 years of military rule and dictatorship and oppression and a general feeling of not valuing your own self as individuals and also of society," he says. "So the city is abandoned."... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical
"It's a city of a lot of things hidden and because of neglect and a general feeling of apathy over the last 50 years of military rule and dictatorship and oppression and a general feeling of not valuing your own self as individuals and also of society," he says. "So the city is abandoned."
NPR 05/16/13
Why Is China Copying Western Icons, Towns, Cities?tag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340442013-05-17T17:44:52Z2013-05-17T17:45:43ZHallstatt, Austria, is in China. So is the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, Christ the Redeemer, and a soon-to-be-completed Manhattan. There are others, too, and it's all part of this weird (at least to us Westerners, or this one Westerner who is writing this) proliferation of what are being called "copy towns."... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical
Hallstatt, Austria, is in China. So is the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, Christ the Redeemer, and a soon-to-be-completed Manhattan. There are others, too, and it's all part of this weird (at least to us Westerners, or this one Westerner who is writing this) proliferation of what are being called "copy towns."
Pacific Standard 05/16/13
Raid On Prominent Manhattan Gallerytag:www.artsjournal.com,2013:/artsjournal1//5.1340432013-05-17T17:43:20Z2013-05-17T17:44:07Z"As newspaper photographers gathered around, agents hauled away computers and boxes of documents as part of a sweeping investigation involving the gallery's owner, Hillel Nahmad, 34, who is known as Helly and is accused along with several others of playing leadership roles in a $100 million gambling and money-laundering network with connections to Russian organized-crime figures."... ArtsJournalhttp://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical
"As newspaper photographers gathered around, agents hauled away computers and boxes of documents as part of a sweeping investigation involving the gallery's owner, Hillel Nahmad, 34, who is known as Helly and is accused along with several others of playing leadership roles in a $100 million gambling and money-laundering network with connections to Russian organized-crime figures."
The New York Times 05/17/13