After all, at this point the most widely-seen Dada artwork is on the Swiss 50-franc bill. On the contrary, argues Swissinfo, the legacy of Dada is everywhere. (And it’s the first worldwide movement to originate in Switzerland since Calvinism.)
Facebook Takes Down Philly Museum Of Art Image For ‘Suggestive Content’
“The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s International Pop exhibition starts on February 24th. To promote it, an Art Museum staffer posted the image above – Belgian artist Evelyne Axell’s 1964 painting Ice Cream – on Facebook. … Per the Art Museum, it was removed from the site for ‘containing excessive amounts of skin or suggestive content.'”
London Gets Twice As Much Arts Funding As Rest Of England: Report
“[That’s] despite accounting for just a third of the country’s cultural offering. … The report also reveals that the average funding per London organisation is £2.1 million, compared with £495,000 for organisations outside the city.”
Peter Oundjian Will Step Down From Toronto Symphony In Two Years
TSO music director since 2004, Oundjian said he hopes to be named to an emeritus position on his departure.
Apple Revolutionized The Music Business. So Why Didn’t It Figure Out TV?
“So how did the company that seismically shook the music industry, rethought the smartphone, and pioneered the tablet blow it with the television set? The reasons are complex but essentially involve a combination of hubris, impenetrable legal agreements, bad timing, and a television industry that identified Apple as public enemy No. 1.”
Michelangelo Had Terrible Arthritis In His Hands – And Kept On Painting
Recently published research “suggests that Michelangelo Buonarroti suffered from osteoarthritis for the last 15 years of his life. Miraculously, though the researchers claim that this was why the Renaissance master could not write his own letters toward the end of his life, it did not affect his art practice, which remained prolific up to the week of his death.”
Behind The Scenes, Using Instagram, At City Ballet
“Viewing the creation of The Most Incredible Thing on Mr. Peck’s and Mr. Dzama’s Instagram feeds offers a new way of engaging with dance and contemporary art. I began to wonder how much more they and the dancers are asked to account for themselves and their work in fixed forms. Documenting ballet has always been a tricky proposition. By translating dance into writings, interviews, recordings, and critical essays, you understand how ephemeral the medium is.”
Picasso’s Daughter Says She Did *Not* Sell Disputed Sculpture To Two Different Owners
“Maya Widmaier Picasso, who is the artist’s daughter with his French mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter, issued a statement through her lawyer Thaddeus Stauber on Friday saying she sold a 1931 plaster bust of her mother, ‘Bust of a Woman,’ to a New York dealer, Larry Gagosian, in May. The dealer subsequently sold it to Mr. Black for roughly $106 million, a record-high price for any Picasso sculpture.”
Why Is A Major Portland Museum Closing And Being Absorbed Into A College?
“Mills considers everything that has happened as the result of the museum’s original 2007 move into the Pearl District from its home on Southwest Corbett. That move wasn’t just geographic; it changed the culture of the museum (which had been known as Contemporary Crafts Gallery) as it raised its visibility and quality of exhibitions. And it was far more expensive. ‘I don’t think they ever recovered,’ Mills said.”
Redefining ‘Gallery’ For 2016
“When it opens in mid-March, there will be no other commercial gallery like it in Los Angeles, New York or, for that matter, the rest of the Americas.”
How Did This Chicago Theatre Go From Playing To 60 People In A Bookstore To Getting A $28 Million Complex?
“An interesting paradox: The fewer seats you have in a theater, the less money you can bring in at the box office, but the more you can connect with your audience, and your audience includes your best donors. No arts organization can fund a building of this scale from ticket sales. It can from donors.”
Football Teams Aren’t The Only Ones Facing Off Today
“The losing theatres will incorporate an element of the winning team into the scenic design of an upcoming production; the staff of the losing theatre must wear the winning team’s colors to work the following Monday and post evidence on social media; and the defeated theatres must decorate their main box offices with a stuffed version of the winning team’s mascot.”
The Washington Ballet’s Artistic Director Will Step Down In June
“He has decided to spend more time in the studio, making new ballets and working with dancers, he said. ‘Over the last few years, many of my works have been performed outside the Washington Ballet, and I’ve been turning down projects,’ he said.”
Samuel French Tries To Shut Down A Seattle Play An Hour Before Curtain
“The one-person play, created and performed by Erin Pike and written by Courtney Meaker consists entirely of dialogue from the female characters that appear in the 10 most-frequently-produced Amercian plays during the 2014—2015 season.”
If It’s So Hard To Authenticate A Rothko, Then…
In an art market governed largely by pretense and money, does a masterpiece have any intrinsic value?
Actor Dies In Stage Hanging Gone Wrong
Raphael Schumacher “was performing in an experimental theater production in the courtyard of Pisa’s Teatro Lux when a member of the audience noticed that the rope around his neck was too tight. The actor’s head was covered at the time, but the spectator — a female medical graduate — saw him trembling and realized something was wrong.”
Yemenis, Like Syrians, Struggle To Save Art And Architecture From War’s Destruction
“Air strikes by a Saudi Arabia-led coalition and attacks by fundamentalist groups linked to Al Qaeda and ISIS have caused widespread destruction to Yemen’s heritage, losses that have been under-reported compared with the destruction wreaked by extremists in Syria and northern Iraq. The latest casualty is the National Museum in the city of Taiz, which was badly damaged when shelled by Houthis militants on Sunday.”
Why ‘Hamilton’ Is The Musical For The Age Of Obama
Just as Camelot was the emblematic show of JFK’s day (“about the idealism and glamour of courtly power, and also about its fragility”) and South Pacific was of the Truman-Eisenhower era (“about what America was going to do and be after the Americans had won their terrible war”), argues Adam Gopnik, Hamilton captures both the changes and the contradictions in the U.S. during this President’s term.