“The U.S. government’s lack of a proper infrastructure to adequately support the arts is matched by many philanthropic institutions that are often reluctant to support projects and activities beyond their own communities or outside U.S. borders.”
The Top 10 Artists Lost To The World Because Of World War I
London Needs More ‘Pop-Up’ Theatre – But It’s Hard To Come By In The West End
Ballet: Suddenly, It’s The Workout Of The Fashion World
Algorithm “Mutates” Art
“The algorithm mutates the image in different ways: chopping it in half, overlaying it on another image or randomly altering it. The resulting images are either culled or kept depending on how closely they adhere to the user’s initial stylistic choices, and the process repeats. The person can stop the process at any time and select an image they like, or let it keep running.”
A History Of Literary Censorship
“A more legitimate literary objection to censorship is its implicit portrayal of a reader as the sort of person who jumps off a cliff when asked. Notions such as “obscenity” or “abasement before the west” make literary language a tool of subversion and ascribe to the novelist the hypnotist’s capacity for making a previously obedient or prudish member of the public throw stones or unzip.”
Prado Museum: Just To Clarify – We’ve Know For A Long Time About Our Missing Art Works
“The only new element presented in the audit undertaken by the Tribunal de Cuentas in 2012 is the that fact 41 works have been located, the whereabouts of which had been unknown since 1978 when the first report by the Fiscalía General de Reino was published on the situation of works from the collection of the Museo del Prado on deposit with other institutions.”
Protesting Performers Have Been Interrupting French Festival This Summer
NYC Mayor Fires Eight Board Members Of Queens Library System
“The board members were removed after they voted in April against firing Thomas W. Galante, director of the Queens library system, who has been under investigation for using money earmarked for library improvements for renovations to his personal office and for steering contracts for the work to a friend.”
Head Of Big New Arts Center In Beverly Hills Out After First Season
“The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, which only recently completed its inaugural season, confirmed Thursday that Executive Director Lou Moore has left the fledgling arts organization. Moore, who spent more than a decade raising money to construct the new center and then led its 2013 opening and first season, left the organization on Tuesday.”
Andy Serkis, Star Of A Movie Medium That’s Anti-Star By Its Very Nature
“Serkis, whose resume includes playing some of the least likely critical favorites of all time – Gollum, King Kong, and Godzilla – seems like an ideal spokesman for motion-capture if it wants high-brow cred. … [Yet] the singular focus on him in some ways clashes with the collaborative, chameleonic spirit of motion-capture, a field that has a long and glorious tradition of eschewing thespian concerns entirely.”
Angel Corella: “I Have A Lot Of Plans” For Pennsylvania Ballet
They include “closely coaching the dancers, touring more, giving outdoor public performances, organizing outreach programs with schools, and bringing in new choreographers. He listed Christopher Wheeldon, Wayne McGregor, Justin Peck, and Liam Scarlett as possibilities. He also wants to reassure his dancers and artistic staff.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.24.14
Big Questions Re: Museum of African Art’s New Dream
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Celebrating the Power of SLAKE
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Koons, Whitney, Wynn and My “Greater Fool” Theory of Trophy Art
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-07-24
Managing expectations
AJBlog: Sandow | Published 2014-07-24
Survivor stories
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What is Creative Placemaking?
AJBlog: Field Notes | Published 2014-07-25
When Manhattan Became The Capital Of The World (In The 1920s)
“Beginning with the reconstruction of Park Avenue in the early 1920s, Midtown became a destination neighborhood for the city’s ultrarich, eager to abandon their stand-alone Fifth Avenue palaces in favor of contemporary “mansions in the sky.” Alongside the real estate boom came a decadent new night life and a host of more serious cultural diversions, all of them fueled, in Miller’s telling, by a steady supply of ambition, energy and illicit booze.”
TV Edges Out Movies At This Year’s Comic-Con
New York City Is Introducing A New ID Card (And It Wants Cultural Groups To Help)
“To broaden the appeal of a card that will be available to all New Yorkers early next year but is designed to help those who do not have a driver’s license or other official identification, the administration has asked some of the city’s most prominent cultural institutions to offer benefits, like memberships or discounted tickets, to cardholders.”
British Government Backs Down On Cuts To Music Education
“This is undoubtedly good news. That extra £17 million (the government says £18 million, but no-one quite understands their arithmetic), means the total amount spread around the music hubs will rise to £75 million. This will reverse the decline of recent years, which has been steep.”
80s Band Duran Duran Sues Its Own Fan Club
How Popular Culture Of The 1920s Became Obsessed With King Tut
“The tomb’s discovery, at the start of the Roaring Twenties, followed the global upheavals of World War One. Mass media was able to bring news of objects being carried out of the tomb to a wider audience, faster than ever before. America, in particular, became obsessed by “King Tut” – as he became known. Even US President Herbert Hoover used the name for his pet dog.”
