Tuesday, May 2
What Does It mean When Wrong Is Used More Than Right?
Ancient English cliches and expressions are being mangled by the culture of cut and paste and the spread of unchecked writing on the internet. According to the Oxford English Corpus, a database of a billion words, dozens of traditional phrases are now more commonly misspelled than rendered correctly in written English."
The Guardian (UK)
05/01/06
Posted: 05/01/2006 6:50 pm
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Provenance And Scholarship Do A Dance
The study of old artifacts is becoming problematic when it comes to looking at objects. "On one side are archaeologists and other experts who say that most objects without a clear record of ownership or site of origin were looted, and that the publication of such material aggrandizes collectors and encourages the illicit trade. On the other side are those who argue that ignoring such works may be even more damaging to scholarship than the destruction caused by looting."
The New York Times
05/02/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 7:37 am
An "Anti-Meier Committee Forms In Rome
To his admirers, architect Richard Meier has "the most consistent portfolio of any architect alive; to his detractors, the most repetitive. You can identify one of his buildings in an instant, yet they tend to go with everything. Currently, Meier finds himself at the centre of an almighty controversy. His new Ara Pacis Museum is the first significant structure to go up in Rome's historic centre since Mussolini's time, and as such it has attracted a great deal of attention, mostly negative."
The Guardian (UK)
05/01/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 5:50 am
Time Warp - A Seattle Museum Takes A Giant Leap
Charles and Emma Frye were Seattle collectors with reactionary Old World taste in painting. They left behind a flawed collection with a seriously large $92 million endowment, and now the institution's new handlers have jumped both feet into the 21st Century with advnturous shows. "What is the frye's core audience thinking? In a twinkling, rip van winkle became a wide-awake laboratory of contemporary experiment. Put another way, the frye time-traveled from a stuffy 19th century to a progressive 21st, without stopping, even to refuel, in the 20th."
visual codec
05/06
Posted: 05/01/2006 6:47 pm
Tate Modern Does A Rehang To Tell A Different Story
"I don't envy the curators at Tate Modern, whose job it is to present art from 80 or 100 years ago next to the art of today. It's hard to juxtapose the very new with the overfamiliar - hard to set the violent originality of Léger alongside the tired formulae of Gary Hume or Fiona Rae. And yet that is what the museum does."
The Guardian (UK)
05/01/06
Posted: 05/01/2006 6:46 pm
Metal Detectors And Archaeologists Make Truce
"While amateur users of metal detectors have made some of the most spectacular archaeological finds of recent years, many archaeologists have regarded them as little better than hobby looters. Now, after months of negotiation, the two sides are set to announce a code of conduct. The code, which will be launched at the British Museum today, has been agreed by all the main metal detector clubs, landowners, archaeologists, museums, archaeological societies and English Heritage."
The Guardian (UK)
05/01/06
Posted: 05/01/2006 5:55 pm
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Canadian Opera Company Tests Its New Building
"The COC isn't interested in monuments so much as a building that can flatter the company's talents, nurture its growth, and give pleasure to performers and audiences. In that sense, attending these concerts (including a school matinee on Wednesday) was like witnessing the first meetings of the parties to an arranged marriage. You knew it would be made to work. The question was: how, and how well?"
The Globe & Mail (Canada)
04/29/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 6:45 am
Davis: Voigt's Voice Is Different After Weight Loss
Peter G. Davis detects a change in Deborah Voigt's voice since she lost weight. "A change has also come over Voigt?s voice lately, though it?s hard to tell if it?s from weight loss or normal aging?controversy still rages over whether Maria Callas?s drastic diets contributed to her rapid vocal decline."
New York Magazine
05/01/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 6:41 am
Rap - Just About The Money?
"Many of the performers at the three-day Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival in Hartford, Connecticut, were critical of the way that US rap - which is by far the best-selling - appears concerned mostly with money, drugs and sex, and has little to do with its roots in the angry political expression of groups like Public Enemy or KRS One."
BBC
05/01/06
Posted: 05/01/2006 8:10 pm
Time To Bash "Last Night Of The Proms" Again
"The Last Night has never been just about the music; in fact, it's mostly about everything but the pieces the BBC Symphony Orchestra gamely tries to play through a chorus of klaxons, whistles, and toe-curling audience participation. The first half of the Last Night is traditionally a conventional concert in miniature, a minor inconvenience tolerated by the audience in the hall before the bombastic beanfeast of the second half. It's the rituals of that second half that have defined a sense of British - or rather, English - patriotism that often curdles into jingoism, with tub-thumping renditions of Jerusalem, Land of Hope and Glory, and Rule, Britannia."
The Guardian (UK)
05/01/06
Posted: 05/01/2006 5:53 pm
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Scottish Arts Get Funding Boost
"They will share the £2.1 million funding increase in 2007-8 - a rise of almost 14 per cent - bringing Executive spending on them up to a total of more than £22 million. The extra cash will be shared between Scottish Ballet, Scottish Opera, the Royal National Scottish Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the National Theatre for Scotland."
The Scotsman
05/01/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 8:07 am
How Do Arts Organizations Get The Word Out?
A conference in LA discusses what works. "Newspapers are still the dominant source of information about arts events, but e-mail is becoming increasingly important. About $30 billion was spent online in the 2005 holiday season, an increase of 30% over 2004. The average age of online users is 49, but all age groups are users. Sixty-five percent of users are women, and of them, 47% have postgraduate degrees. Household incomes of those using the Internet average $75,000."
Los Angeles Times
05/01/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 8:05 am
Board Member Boot Camp
Getting quality board members for arts organization is a problem. So one Boston program is trying to change that, training and placing business executives on the boards of local arts and cultural organizations. "Leaders in the arts community say graduates of the program have been a boon for arts and cultural organizations that are competing for a smaller pool of funds."
Boston Business Journal
04/21/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 7:44 am
Peer Pressure - The New Critical Mass
"Expert opinion in the media used to drive culture. Now, it's peer recommendations. Already, consumers can sample a broader range of critical opinion on the Internet -- some of it relevant and thoughtful, covering products that wouldn't ordinarily be reviewed by the mainstream media, and some of it biased or one-dimensional. And marketers, such as movie studios and book publishers, are trying to figure out how Internet tastemakers figure into their relationship with their customers."
Boston Globe
05/01/06
Posted: 05/01/2006 7:48 pm
A Jazz Fest That Means So Much More
Everyone's watching this year's Jazz Fest in New Orleans for signs of the city's recovery. "Music in New Orleans has always been entertaining, but never just entertainment. It held on to cultural memories, negotiated between Old and New World aesthetics, and bound together families, neighborhoods and communities. It's party music, but it's also a secular ritual. And while the city has spawned far more than its share of gifted musicians, its music was not created from the top down."
The New York Times
05/02/06
Posted: 05/01/2006 7:34 pm
N'Orleans - Rebirth Or Atlantis?
New Orleans' JazzFest is being touted as the rebirth of a great American city. "Yet as the tourists tuck in to crawfish Monica and fried turkey po?boys, you can?t help wondering what this joyous celebration at the city?s race track ? largely unscathed in the storm ? really means. Is it about the rebirth of a community through the power of music ? or could it just be the last hurrah of an environmental basket-case which the pessimists are tipping as 'America? s Atlantis', the first city to be drowned by global warming?"
The Times (UK)
05/01/06
Posted: 05/01/2006 6:22 pm
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Barry Munitz Gets A Job Back
The former Getty president is returning to California State University system as a teacher and fundraiser. "University officials announced Friday that Munitz, 64, chancellor of the 23-campus system from 1991 to 1998, will hold the title of trustee professor. Along with teaching and administrative assignments, he will help raise money for a new center, the Institute for Urban School Leadership and the Integrated Sciences Complex, which is under construction."
Los Angeles Times
04/29/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 6:31 am
Time's 100: Kiki Smith
Kiki, 52, embraces craft, the dreaded C word of the art world. In myriad materials such as glass, fiber and beads (some associated more with amateurs and craft-show practitioners than with professional artists), she has embraced a dizzyingly diverse vocabulary of the demoted, debased and despised?and she makes you like it.
Time
04/30/06
Posted: 05/01/2006 8:02 pm
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Dromgoole Takes On The Globe
Dominic Dromgoole hasn't distinguished himself as a producer of the Bard's works. And yet here he is running London's Globe Theatre. "For all his excitement, the idea of Dromgoole, 42, running the Globe is going to take some getting used to - and he's got a lot to prove. The role was previously filled by the sensitive actor Mark Rylance, who bashfully attributed the Globe's unexpected box-office success - generating an annual pre-tax profit of £1.5 million - to the ensemble effort rather than his own stellar contribution."
The Telegraph (UK)
05/01/06
Posted: 05/01/2006 7:06 pm
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Mumbai's Street Book Trade Endangered
Mumbai, India has a thriving street book-selling business. Or rather, had one. "Most of Mumbai's pavement booksellers on Veer Nariman Road between Churchgate Station and Marine Drive are now an endangered species. A municipal clean-up is getting rid of hawkers in a city-wide drive to make Mumbai more like modernising Shanghai. Last summer, the city's municipal agency evicted more than 50 of the roughly 75 pavement booksellers and carted away more than a dozen truckloads of books."
The Guardian (UK)
04/29/06
Posted: 05/02/2006 6:55 am
Bedtime Stories - Not When You're 12
"According to a a survey, parents start out reading to small children but abandon it as they grow up, to the point where just 3% of children aged 12 say they are read to every day."
The Guardian (UK)
04/29/06
Posted: 05/01/2006 6:52 pm
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No Room For Movie Critics? Au Contraire
"Everyone has always had an opinion, but now those opinions find ample display space on the Web. As for movie marketing, the dynamics haven't just changed, they've been transformed -- by the Web and TV, as well as the pervasive and pernicious use of focus groups (thank you for that, marketing consultants), and by stupendous marketing budgets, justified by the global economy, that pound every head in the cosmos with news of the latest studio release. What these writers neglect to mention, however, is the awkward issue of quality." Wall Street Journal
05/01/06
Posted: 05/01/2006 7:59 pm
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Ballet Pacifica Exodus Continues
The Southern California company is losing its troops piece by piece. "Husband and wife John Gardner and Amanda McKerrow, former dancers with American Ballet Theatre, will leave their administrative posts with the Irvine-based company when their contracts are up at the end of July."
Los Angeles Times
04/29/06
Posted: 04/30/2006 10:09 am
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