http://www.artsjournal.com/people.shtml Copyright 2008 Fri, 16 May 2008 08:12:01 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "Work in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Nate Lippens, a freelance critic, is being examined after one of his art reviews was discovered to have striking similarities to criticism published two years earlier in Art in America magazine."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/seattle_art_cri.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/seattle_art_cri.shtml people Thu, 15 May 2008 18:49:43 -0800 "The director of a Thailand museum who was indicted as part of a federal investigation into looted antiquities has been found dead at the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac -- apparently from natural causes."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/indicted_museum.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/indicted_museum.shtml people Thu, 15 May 2008 06:36:55 -0800 "The conductor is as far removed from pipe-and-slippers reflection on the past as you could imagine. That past has been illustrious, and last week was acknowledged with an award for Male Artist of the Year by the Classical Brit Awards."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/conductor_colin.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/conductor_colin.shtml people Wed, 14 May 2008 18:42:26 -0800 "He was one of those people--quick as a comedian, deft and knowing--who seem to be effortlessly inventive, spinning off ideas and techniques like droplets of water from a lawn sprinkler, and there is hardly an artist working today who doesn't owe him something. To Rauschenberg, almost anything could be art, and art could be almost anything."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/remembering_rob_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/remembering_rob_1.shtml people Wed, 14 May 2008 18:28:52 -0800 "Rauschenberg's art was instrumental in reintroducing representational imagery into common usage. Until then, avant-garde art on both sides of the Atlantic was most closely identified with pure abstraction, which the general public regarded with skepticism."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/what_rauschenbe.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/what_rauschenbe.shtml people Wed, 14 May 2008 18:00:16 -0800 "Beginning in the early to mid-1950s, Mr. Rauschenberg extended the vocabulary of painting, which had been more or less fixed since the Middle Ages, by combining pigment with real objects such as stuffed birds, fabrics and household appliances, and photographs reproduced from newspapers... He'll be remembered as a genuine trailblazer, someone who opened up several pathways beyond abstract expressionism that many artists continue to follow."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/why_rauschenber.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/why_rauschenber.shtml people Wed, 14 May 2008 06:38:24 -0800 Robert Rauschenberg was far more than just the creator of his famous Combines. "The truly great Rauschenbergs that really get me excited, and that may have the most leverage on our cutting edge, were made before the Combines came to be."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/a_rauschenberg.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/a_rauschenberg.shtml people Wed, 14 May 2008 06:26:32 -0800 "A painter, photographer, printmaker, choreographer, onstage performer, set designer and, in later years, even a composer, Mr. Rauschenberg defied the traditional idea that an artist stick to one medium or style. He pushed, prodded and sometimes reconceived all the mediums in which he worked."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/robert_rauschen.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/robert_rauschen.shtml people Tue, 13 May 2008 10:51:19 -0800 "This is such an interesting time of life, being this age. Because you literally can find yourself thinking one minute about dance steps and the next about where you'd like your ashes spread. And not abstractly, in either case."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/bill_irwin_a_cl.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/bill_irwin_a_cl.shtml people Sun, 11 May 2008 19:34:12 -0800 "Will Rachel Whiteread, unshowy as she is, be the Britartist who stands the test of time? Whiteread was always regarded as the serious-minded one among the Britart pack. While the work of Damien Hirst, the Chapman brothers, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas screamed for attention, Whiteread's tended to whisper - despite its scale. It also caused huge controversy."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/britarts_best.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/britarts_best.shtml people Sun, 11 May 2008 10:16:46 -0800 "Craig Boyko was already famous in that semi-famous Canadian literary way even before his debut, a collection of stories called Blackouts, was published this year to universal acclaim. Actually, make that Canadian acclaim: Boyko's agent is still looking for a U.S. deal, always a tough sell, but especially so for a book of stories by a novice from Canada."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/the_next_great_8.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/the_next_great_8.shtml people Sun, 11 May 2008 10:08:17 -0800 Cartoonist Lynda Barry isn't nearly as visible as she once was, but at a two-day workshop in Pittsburgh this month, her philosophy of life and art was on full display. "It involves using a random word, like "cars" or "breasts," to summon a memory in unexpected, filmic detail; writing about it by hand for a set time period; and then not reading it or talking about it for at least a week."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/the_barry_metho.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/the_barry_metho.shtml people Sun, 11 May 2008 09:43:50 -0800 Acclaimed soprano Frances Yeend, a regular on New York stages in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s has died aged 92. "Her last performance with the Met was in 1963, as Gutrune in Wagner's Götterdämmerung... Most recently Ms. Yeend was an emeritus faculty member of West Virginia University in Morgantown."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/soprano_francis.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/soprano_francis.shtml people Thu, 08 May 2008 06:22:52 -0800 "Who is buried in Friedrich Schiller's tomb? Several people, apparently, but none of them the famous poet and playwright, according to new research. After two years of painstaking DNA research, experts have determined that none of the remains billed as those of Schiller belong to the German writer."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/schiller_remain.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/schiller_remain.shtml people Thu, 08 May 2008 06:11:52 -0800 "Victor F. Christ-Janer, a member of a group of influential architects who built Modernist homes and offices in New Canaan, Conn., died on March 24 at the home he designed for himself there. He was 92."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/modernist_archi.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/modernist_archi.shtml people Thu, 08 May 2008 05:21:28 -0800 "France is making a fuss this week over Richard Serra, the 68-year-old American bantamweight who fashions elegant, gargantuan art out of steel... But the sheer scale of Mr. Serra's work has always created difficulties, to which Paris has found two creative solutions..."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/finding_room_fo.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/finding_room_fo.shtml people Wed, 07 May 2008 05:35:47 -0800 "Among the allegations: Drabinsky and Gottlieb directed staff to inflate earnings, income and assets, allowing the company to maintain its share price. Suppliers were induced to issue invoices with false dates. Accounting software was changed to foil auditors."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/the_livent_frau.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/the_livent_frau.shtml people Tue, 06 May 2008 15:41:23 -0800 Spacey had previously criticised the reality shows as a "13-week promotion for a musical." Lloyd Webber is currently on the judging panel for I'd Do Anything which sees hopefuls compete for a role in the musical version of Oliver Twist.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/kevin_spacey_ap.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/kevin_spacey_ap.shtml people Mon, 05 May 2008 17:48:16 -0800 Bocelli has admitted that at times he sold his talent short. He said: I regret being forced by circumstances to do things that were very profitable, but occupied a lot of time I could have dedicated to more artistically satisfying work."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/andrea_bocelli_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/andrea_bocelli_1.shtml people Mon, 05 May 2008 17:16:01 -0800 "Sir Salman Rushdie has confessed how he emerged a better person after being under a fatwa that saw him live a life in virtual seclusion for almost a decade."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/rushdie_death_t.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/rushdie_death_t.shtml people Mon, 05 May 2008 05:59:54 -0800 Alice Walker's daughter has talked about what a terrible mother Walker was. "Walker is furious with Rebecca for making such sentiments public, and mother and daughter are estranged with little hope of reconciliation."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/alice_walker_to.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/alice_walker_to.shtml people Sun, 04 May 2008 11:01:12 -0800 "Much of the music of America's past, its dances and marches and dirges, was played simultaneously. But Brant's ingenious use of the location and carefully engineered counterpoint allowed the ear to accommodate the various musical strands. Music not meant to get along did."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/remember_compos.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/remember_compos.shtml people Thu, 01 May 2008 17:44:22 -0800 Lyttelton will leave an enormous gap not just in British cultural life as a whole but in the lives of many millions of listeners,'' BBC Director-General Mark Thompson said in a statement today. ``One of the towering figures of British jazz, he excelled too as a writer, cartoonist, humorist and, of course, as a broadcaster.''... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/broadcaster_hum.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/broadcaster_hum.shtml people Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:57:18 -0800 A composer of hundreds of works, many featuring enormous and unique ensembles such as 80 trombones, Brant was one of last surviving members of the original generation of early 20th century American maverick composers.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/composer_henry.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/composer_henry.shtml people Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:09:07 -0800 "An archive of Mallory's personal papers, recently bought by Harvard University, was shown exclusively to The Sunday Times on Friday. It contains a devastating portrait of Mailer's sexual decline from world-class lothario to malfunctioning lover."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/a_less_flatteri.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/a_less_flatteri.shtml people Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:11:19 -0800