“A rigging crew was completing the installation of “Sequence” on a recently poured concrete slab behind the museum. A giant crane, hired by the riggers, stretched several stories above the buildings’ roofline. Placement and assembly of the 235-ton piece had gone smoothly, taking only about three days.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Kickstarter Can Get Your Art Funded – If You Put In Major Time
“Kickstarter has been around online for just over two years, and various artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers and designers have used the site to raise more than $75 million for 10,626 ‘creative projects,’ to use Kickstarter’s preferred term.”
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra Could Rise Again
Syracuse University has big plans to help revive the bankrupt Symphony — but the plans are so secret that even many musicians haven’t heard of them.
Words Are Just Words — Until Someone Takes Them Seriously
“We all love a good conspiracy theory – right up to the moment when someone kills in its name – and this is the reason why satire is sometimes potentially dangerous.”
Stealing Goya’s Duke of Wellington Was No Thomas Crown Affair
“When in July 1965 a 61-year-old retired truck driver announced at West End Central police station that he had stolen the Goya, it was hard for the police to take Kempton Bunton seriously.”
Boredom Isn’t So Boring –Â And Might Save Our Lives
“Perhaps boredom is designed to encourage people to adapt their behavior and to protect them from social toxins, just as its first cousin disgust is designed, biologically speaking, to cause people to adapt their behavior to real physical toxins.”
Time For Destruction: Artist Creates Record-Breaking Clock for Burning Man
“Elsewhere, some of the nation’s pre-eminent scientists were preparing the lasers that will form the hour, minute and second hands. The green, red and blue laser lights will be emitted from a steel tower and will sweep horizontally above guests.” And at the end of the Burning Man festival, it will all be destroyed.
All A Game: Identifying 200,000 Old Photos For Fun & Status
“This isn’t crowd-sourcing as we know it. Instead, an added element has been introduced: gaming. Using a series of incentives, from leader board-style status-enhancers to virtual rewards, Magnum hopes to make the tagging process more fun, and, as a result, more popular.”
Kiefer’s Labyrinth: Documentary of An Artist’s Monumental Work
German artist Anselm Kiefer invited Sophie Fiennes to document a massive, weird artwork. Fiennes “wandered the grounds, navigating tunnels illuminated with skylights or single bulbs, discovering a crypt and an amphitheater and a patch of land scattered with concrete towers inspired by the biblical story of Lilith that resemble modern ruins.”
To Glimmerglass, With Boots On: Francesca Zambello Takes The Stage
“As the new general director of Glimmerglass, Zambello is certainly performing. Her role is a mix of stage director and den mother, at once warm and a little bossy, almost aggressively trying to make everyone feel at home.”