Is CultureGrrl "a new model in cultural coverage"?Maybe. Perhaps not. But this continuing work-in-progress (or lack thereof) is Number 46 of 109 projects vying for that designation (and the generous first prize) at the National Summit on Arts Journalism.If you would like to see my self-praising pitch to the competition's jurors, go here. If nothing else, it will tell you how I … [Read more...] about CultureGrrl Competes: The Future of Arts Journalism?
Archives for August 2009
NEA Video: “Rocco Landesman Greets the Nation” (and Peoria)
A one-minute video (above) of the National Endowment for the Arts' new chairman is now posted on the agency's website, along with the transcript. Here's what he says:Hello, I am Rocco Landesman. I am honored to serve the country in my new role as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. The Arts Endowment is dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts, both new and … [Read more...] about NEA Video: “Rocco Landesman Greets the Nation” (and Peoria)
News Flash: Don Bacigalupi Named Director of Crystal Bridges Museum
Don Bacigalupi, new director of Crystal Bridges Museum[UPDATE: My interview with Bacigalupi is here.]Don Bacigalupi, director of the Toledo Museum of Art, has just been named director of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, succeeding Bob Workman, who resigned in March. Bacigalupi, who assumes his post in late October, is a specialist in post-World War … [Read more...] about News Flash: Don Bacigalupi Named Director of Crystal Bridges Museum
Lee’s List: What CultureGrrl is Reading Today
Send a micro-donation of $1.50 my way (via my "Donate" button in the middle column), and I'll shoot you my latest links: Culture Wars revival; fractional gifts (two links); "Afghanistan's" unsung hero; endowment spending (or lack thereof).There's been a lull on the macro-donation front, because you're all at the pool or the beach. When you get back, please remember that for $5 … [Read more...] about Lee’s List: What CultureGrrl is Reading Today
News Flash: Deborah Gribbon Named Cleveland Museum’s Interim Director
Deborah Gribbon It's taken almost five years, but Deborah Gribbon, who in 2004 resigned her position as director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, over conflicts with the Getty Trust's then president, Barry Munitz, will soon have a new museum gig---interim director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, succeeding Timothy Rub, who will assume the directorship of the … [Read more...] about News Flash: Deborah Gribbon Named Cleveland Museum’s Interim Director
Elgin’s Shaky Grounds: How Firm Was the Firman?
The Italian-language version of Elgin's firman, owned by the British MuseumDuring his recent conversation with Tate director Nicholas Serota at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Neil MacGregor, the British Museum's director, said this about Lord Elgin's removal from Athens to England of the Parthenon Marbles:There's no question it was legal because you … [Read more...] about Elgin’s Shaky Grounds: How Firm Was the Firman?
“Julie & Julia” & CultureGrrl: The Donation Connection
The real Julie and Eric Powell, taking a break from cooking, blogging, movie premieres (and editing)At last, a hit movie about blogging!I was thoroughly enjoying the entire "Julie & Julia" movie---the parts about the down-to-earth (and sometimes downtrodden) food blogger, Julie Powell, just as much as those about the celebrated progenitor of all those television cooking … [Read more...] about “Julie & Julia” & CultureGrrl: The Donation Connection
The Landesman Watch: NY Times Triple-Links to CultureGrrl
You've gotta click the "Read more" jump link on the NY Times' ArtsBeat blog page (10:17 a.m. entry) to find me, but Dave Itzkoff today links thrice to CultureGrrl, in his post on Rock-the-Boat Rocco (my new nickname for Landesman, not theirs).Top billing in Dave's blog item, With First Interview, New NEA Chairman Stirs the Online Pot, deservedly goes to today's Bloomberg … [Read more...] about The Landesman Watch: NY Times Triple-Links to CultureGrrl
Mr. Landesman Goes to Peoria: Invitation Accepted? (apology pending?) UPDATED TWICE
East Peoria High School, home of the Eastlight Theatre (to which Landesman was invited)Yesterday I suggested that Rocco Landesman, the new and sometimes impolitic chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, would do well to accept the the invitation from the office of Peoria's Congressman, Aaron Schock, to visit that town and repair hurt feelings.Now comes word that … [Read more...] about Mr. Landesman Goes to Peoria: Invitation Accepted? (apology pending?) UPDATED TWICE
Lee’s List: What CultureGrrl is Reading Today
Send a micro-donation of $1.50 my way (via my "Donate" button in the middle column), and I'll shoot you my latest links: auction house half-year results (two links), Opoku vs. de Montebello; Wolgin Prize; NJ's billboard art.Speaking of CultureGrrl Donors...COMING SOON: My tangential connection with the first major motion picture centered on blogging! … [Read more...] about Lee’s List: What CultureGrrl is Reading Today
How Will NEA’s Landesman Play in Peoria? Congressman’s Spokesperson (and readers) Speak Out
Aaron Schock, freshman Republican Congressman from PeoriaRocco Landesman, the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, virtually guaranteed that there would be backlash against his plans for that agency by shooting from the lip before he had located his Washington office's paper clips. Sometimes the best management style (especially as a government bureaucrat) … [Read more...] about How Will NEA’s Landesman Play in Peoria? Congressman’s Spokesperson (and readers) Speak Out
Nouvel’s World: 1,250-Foot-High Glass Tower “Not a Huge Building”
Jean Nouvel at NY City Planning Commission's MoMA/Hines hearing"Three minutes for ME?" lamented Jean Nouvel, when the speaker's cut-off bell had tolled for him at the NY City Planning Commission's recent hearing on the proposed MoMA/Hines tower. [Previous CultureGrrl posts on that hearing are here and here.]The French architect had just flown in to lend his Pritzker … [Read more...] about Nouvel’s World: 1,250-Foot-High Glass Tower “Not a Huge Building”
The Rocco Landesman Show: A Mixed Review
Rocco LandesmanEven a federal agency, in rolling out news of great interest to the entire nation's arts community, has a NY Times-first policy. The official announcement of Rocco Landesman's confirmation as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts states:Mr. Landesman will not be available immediately for media interviews [emphasis added]. However, those interested in … [Read more...] about The Rocco Landesman Show: A Mixed Review
Twitter Dependency: Addicts in Painful Blather Withdrawal
The signature image on Twitter of "artdetective," my enablerI'm an ambivalent tweeter. I started because several people said that if you blog, you gotta tweet. The young(er) Bloomberg reporter who successfully convinced me to try it (during our chat at the Met's "Afghanistan" preview) wrote back approvingly that I'd soon become addicted. Mercifully, that hasn't happened. The … [Read more...] about Twitter Dependency: Addicts in Painful Blather Withdrawal
Lee’s List: What CultureGrrl is Reading Today
Send a micro-donation of $1.50 my way (via my "Donate" button in the middle column), and I'll shoot you my latest links: Tennyson, Keats (for all you literary fans), Sifton (several links), MoMA/Hines (two links).Meanwhile, Canada actually did respond to yesterday's Schnorrer Shoutout: Many thanks to CultureGrrl Macro-Donors from Detroit, MI (that's pretty close) and (YES!!!) … [Read more...] about Lee’s List: What CultureGrrl is Reading Today