Oh, To Be Young And Creative... As people live longer, the age when they are at their greatest creativity has gone up a bit. But the length of time people are extraordinarily creative hasn't increased. So why is that? Tech central Station 06/01/05
Posted: 06/02/2005 10:19 pm
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Greek Curator On Trial For Offending Church A Greek curator is on truial for offending the Eastern Orthodox church last year when he "organised a major modern art exhibition in Greece as part of a series of cultural events leading up to the Olympics. The case against him stems from a painting by Belgian artist Thierry de Cordier, which shows a penis next to a Christian cross." If found guilty he could go to jail for five years. BBC 06/03/05
Posted: 06/03/2005 6:27 am
Davidson: Hope For Ground Zero Justin Davidson admits that conventional wisdom says the Ground Zero rebuilding process is a mess. But. "Yes, much of what is happening downtown is lamentable, secretive, unpredictable and slow. But nearly four years after the attacks we have a plan that, for all its flaws, represents a workable compromise. We should keep prodding it toward reality." Newsday 06/01/05
Posted: 06/02/2005 10:06 pm
Art Of The Fake Faking contemporary art is more common, but “with Old Master paintings, it’s just about over. Forgery is much more difficult because we have so many tools to discover them. (See article page 106.) It’s impossible to imagine a Picasso painting coming out of the woodwork that nobody has ever seen. It’s inconceivable that someone would get away with it.” ARTnews 06/05
Posted: 06/02/2005 9:18 pm
Court: Met Can Expand A New York Court has struck down a neighborhood group's challenge to a major expansion by the Metropolitan Museum. "The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court ruled 5-0 that the community group's court petition to block construction on environmental grounds was time-barred - more than two years late. The court said the group should have acted within four months." Newsday 06/02/05
Posted: 06/02/2005 4:22 pm
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LACMA Gives New Music The Boot The LA County Museum of Art is dropping the residencies of two of LA's most important contemporary music groups. The California EAR Unit and Xtet — as well the annual Rosalinde Gilbert Concerts, which cover a broader repertory, are being cut loose. "We're going to concentrate on programs that enhance the core mission of an art museum, which is to present the visual arts to the public." Los Angeles Times 06/03/05
Posted: 06/03/2005 7:45 am
Missing Eos Why did the adventurous orchestra Eos fold after 10 years? Conductor Jonathan Sheffer ponders the question: "Ironically, Eos's decline during the past year happened against the backdrop of the rise of Red {an orchestra} in Cleveland, now entering its fourth season. The opposite trajectory of these two groups perfectly manifested all that was problematic with Eos, and all that is right with Red. With only my programming ideas in common, Red and Eos, each in its own way, embody all the challenges and rewards facing the smaller, more iconoclastic arts groups in America." NewMusicBox 06/02/05
Posted: 06/02/2005 11:52 pm
The Mozart Effect (But Why?) What is it with our enduring fascination with Mozart? "As we near the 250th anniversary of his birth, Mozart still presides as the patron saint of modern child prodigies—and as a talismanic figure in the more mundane realm of bound-for-the-top organization kids, too." Slate 06/01/05
Posted: 06/02/2005 10:16 pm
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Art In The 'Burbs Suburban communities across the US are getting into community art projects. "Some of those forms aim for the sublime. Some are utilitarian. And some are all about community pride and boosterism." St. Paul Pioneer-Press 06/03/05
Posted: 06/03/2005 8:44 am
Art - Entertainment Or Investment A New York curator says art is facing a crisis. "It's a dismal time. Young artists in my city are very upset about being suborned by commerce, on an international scale now. Art has just been lassooed to serve the purposes of the larger society, which are totally commercial. It must be said some artists are glad enough to collaborate." Sydney Morning Herald 06/03/05
Posted: 06/02/2005 11:39 pm
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Pavarotti Extends String Of Cancellations Pavarotti has canceled a Three Tenors performance in Mexico because of laryngitis. "Pavarotti recently cancelled a Dublin performance because of a throat infection and has postponed two UK concerts to have neck surgery. The 69-year-old opera star is currently on an extensive farewell tour." BBC 06/03/05
Posted: 06/03/2005 6:30 am
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A Season For Tonys This year's Broadway season featured "a bevy of big men on campus, a dearth of decent old musicals, and $768 million in sales. A big chunk of that figure came from shows that opened in the spring, and the Tonys should follow suit, with productions like "Monty Python's Spamalot," "Doubt, A Parable" and "The Light in the Piazza" all favored to win multiple awards. Indeed, most on Broadway predict a remarkably democratic distribution of Tonys, though a few old-timers sense the possibility of a big "Spamalot" sweep." The New York Times 06/03/05
Posted: 06/02/2005 11:16 pm
Tony Favorites Who's going to win this year's Tony awards? John Heilpern handicaps the field... New York Observer 06/01/05
Posted: 06/02/2005 9:42 pm
The Best Of The Soon-To-Be-Also-Rans It's been an unusually strong year on Broadway, according to Michael Riedel, and while not everyone's efforts on stage will be rewarded in gold next Sunday night at the Tony awards, the year has brought an embarrassment of riches in the honorable mention category... New York Post 06/02/05
Posted: 06/02/2005 6:20 am
D.C. Planning Huge Shakespeare Fest "Come January 2007, all of Washington will seem a stage and its leading cultural institutions players in an ambitious six-month citywide festival devoted entirely to the works and influence of William Shakespeare. More than 20 local, national and international organizations are scheduled to participate in the venture, called 'Shakespeare In Washington,' which will take place in various venues, including theater, dance, music and visual-art institutions from January through June 2007." Washington Times 06/02/05
Posted: 06/02/2005 5:30 am
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Regan: LA's Where The Action Is Why is super editor Judith Regan bringing her publishing house from New York to LA? "Over the last 20 years, she explains, New York has turned into a city that’s better suited to bankers, Wall Street lawyers and the superrich than it is to publishers. Artists are fleeing, creativity is dying, and the rents keep going up." LAWeekly 06/02/05
Posted: 06/02/2005 10:31 pm
New Yorker Hits DVD The New Yorker magazine is issuing its complete archive of issues on DVD. "The collection, titled "The Complete New Yorker," will consist of eight DVD's containing high-resolution digital images of every page of the 4,109 issues of the magazine from February 1925 through the 80th anniversary issue, published last February. Included on the discs will be "every cover, every piece of writing, every drawing, listing, newsbreak, poem and advertisement." The New York Times 06/02/05
Posted: 06/02/2005 10:13 pm
Hemingway House Endangered Ernest Hemingway's house outside of Havana has been listed in the US as "endangered." "The house's exposed position and the tropical hurricane climate of Cuba has left the building with serious structural problems, with experts calling it a preservation emergency". BBC 06/02/05
Posted: 06/02/2005 4:15 pm
Albanian Wins Booker International Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare wins the first Man Booker International Prize. "I am a writer from the Balkan Fringe, a part of Europe which has long been notorious exclusively for news of human wickedness. My firm hope is that European and world opinion may henceforth realise this region... can also give rise to other kinds of news and be the home of other kinds of achievement in the field of the arts, literature and civilisation." BBC 06/02/05
Posted: 06/02/2005 4:11 pm
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Entertainment-Embedded Ads "As consumers turn away from traditional advertising, tech marketers are picking up the slack by weaving lots of gadgets into the fabric of TV shows and movies. The net, video games and ad-skipping DVRs are forcing marketers to focus more attention on branded entertainment." Wired 06/03/05
Posted: 06/03/2005 6:34 am
Smithsonian Pulls Out Of Sponsoring Film "The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History has withdrawn its co-sponsorship of a showing later this month of a film that supports the theory of "intelligent design.The museum said it would not cancel the screening of the film, "The Privileged Planet," but would return the $16,000 that the Discovery Institute, an organization that promotes a skeptical view of the Darwinian theory of evolution, had paid it." The New York Times 06/03/05
Posted: 06/02/2005 11:24 pm
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Sylvie Guillem At 40 Ballet star Sylvie Guillem finds her career changing as she rounds the corner of 40. "The "Mademoiselle Non" of the 1990s (the nickname ruefully given to her by Sir Anthony Dowell) is still turning down roles, but now it's because she has a whole new game plan in view - a new language of movement, a new challenge, a new direction. And later, perhaps, a film, or directing a company, or founding a school. This is no longer a woman willing to be hired to display her accomplishments. She is making the world dance to her tune." The Independent (UK) 05/27/05
Posted: 06/02/2005 11:04 pm
Royal Ballet Catches An Updraft "No major company has had a more confusing time than London’s Royal Ballet, which has not only suffered from the usual crisis of uncertain repertory and underpowered stars but floundered badly during the disastrous, short-lived reign of Ross Stretton. Today, under the leadership of Monica Mason, one of the strongest and most intelligent of its dancers from the 60’s into the 80’s, it seems to be making a comeback—not through flashy innovations, spurious novelties and concocted celebrations but through careful husbanding of the company’s resources; through nurturing and developing dancers and respecting the past while trying to find a sensible road to the future. New York Observer 06/01/05
Posted: 06/02/2005 9:48 pm
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