{"id":859,"date":"2009-07-29T00:21:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T07:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/07\/wednesday_links_4\/"},"modified":"2009-07-29T00:21:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T07:21:37","slug":"wednesday_links_4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/07\/wednesday_links_4.html","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Charlie Finch<\/b> on the charmed trio, all now demised, of Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham and John Cage:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe last of a great triumvirate, Merce Cunningham, died over the<br \/>\nweekend. I&#8217;m the least dance-savvy person around, but it&#8217;s fair to say<br \/>\nthat not a day has passed in my art existence without contemplating<br \/>\nCage, Rauschenberg and Cunningham. What they possessed like the Three<br \/>\nGraces passing a chalice was an unstinting awareness of the world<br \/>\naround them and its positive possibilities.<br \/>\nWhen the garbage truck loads up at 4 in the morning, Cage turns<br \/>\nirritation into music. When HBO posters pile up under a construction,<br \/>\nRauschenberg calls. When a hundred young folks stare down at their<br \/>\niPods, forgetting how to walk, Cunningham does a stutter step.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artnet.com\/magazineus\/features\/finch\/merce-cunningham7-27-09.asp\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/evalake.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/kept-man.html\">Eva Lake<\/a><\/b>, in reviewing Jami Attenberg&#8217;s novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kept-Man-Jami-Attenberg\/dp\/1594489521\"><i>A Kept Man<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In<br \/>\njust about every novel about artists I have read, dealers are made out<br \/>\nto be vulgar or dumb, but I have found this to rarely be the case in<br \/>\nthe real world. It leads me to believe that the writers did not know<br \/>\nany &#8211; or just liked easy, cheap shots.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>D.K. Row<\/b> calls Portland&#8217;s art economy &#8220;frail and nearly bedridden&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/art\/index.ssf\/2009\/07\/analysis_scrutinizing_portland_1.html\">here<\/a>), a description that rings true across the country. These are desperate times, Mrs. Lovett. <i>Bad At Sports<\/i> offers brief analysis of the recessionary impact on galleries with upbeat news from LA, <a href=\"http:\/\/badatsports.com\/2009\/recessionary-impact-on-art-galleries-coast-to-coast\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Doug Britt<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/ent\/arts\/theater\/6546051.html\">reports<\/a> on New York&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artadia.org\/\">Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue<\/a>. It&#8217;s a nonprofit that offers grants to artists who live in five cities &#8211; Houston, San Francisco,<br \/>\nChicago, Boston and Atlanta &#8211; in the hopes of providing a national support network<br \/>\nfor artists who don&#8217;t live in NY or LA.<\/p>\n<p>I<br \/>\nemailed the group to congratulate it on its generosity and ask, Why not<br \/>\nSeattle? Didn&#8217;t hear back. Atlanta makes sense. If the program&#8217;s going<br \/>\nto be nationwide, it needs a Southern city. Houston and Chicago are<br \/>\nobvious, and I&#8217;m fine with San Francisco. That leaves Boston. Boston<br \/>\ninstead of Seattle or Philly or Portland, Oregon? Somebody in the grant<br \/>\noffice is not paying attention. <br \/><b><br \/>Sue the bastards:<\/b> Rose Art Museum board members take Brandeis University to court. (Story everywhere, especially good at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artfagcity.com\/2009\/07\/28\/rose-art-museum-board-sues-brandeis-university\/\">Art Fag City<\/a>. More on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/man\/2009\/07\/rose_board_sues_brandeis_mass.html\">MAN<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Art for the heat wave<\/b> &#8211; Jeppe Hein&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mKnO3HPeuEs&amp;feature=related\"><i>Appearing Rooms<\/i><\/a>. His ice cube is currently melting at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westernbridge.org\/\">Western Bridge<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Finch on the charmed trio, all now demised, of Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham and John Cage: The last of a great triumvirate, Merce Cunningham, died over the weekend. I&#8217;m the least dance-savvy person around, but it&#8217;s fair to say that not a day has passed in my art existence without contemplating Cage, Rauschenberg and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}