The movie and music industries are warning London’s National Gallery that the museum’s digitization project is an open invitation to image piracy. “The National Gallery has been working with computer giant Hewlett-Packard for eight years on a scheme to digitise all of its 2300 paintings. The images have been captured with a digital camera that … Continue reading “Should National Gallery Be Concerned About Digital Piracy?”
The pitch is that .art instantly creates an identity aligned with the art world; you can see plainly why Apple Inc. rushed to register iphone.art and facetime.art, among 36 domain names. During the preferred access period, which launched in December, more than 2,000 domains were purchased on .art by cultural organizations, as well as tech … Continue reading “What’s All The Fuss Over The .Art Domain Name?”
When an arts center stumbles over its definition of inclusivity. Arts as a bridge between cultures? Lessons from mega-culture projects. The mega-gallery mogul. And a dogged poet who spent decades trying to get her work in The New Yorker.
Vancouver Art Gallery Moves A Step Ahead Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2014-01-09 A Wagner heir has died, at 71 Source: Slipped Disc | Published on 2014-01-09 New video: Tan Dun’s concerto for flower-pots Source: Slipped Disc | Published on 2014-01-09 Museum of Modern Art’s Folk-Art Decision: It’s a Knockdown (plus plans for Mega-Mega M… Source: CultureGrrl | Published on 2014-01-09 … Continue reading “Top Posts From AJBlogs 01-09-14”
A new exhibit at the London Portrait Gallery sheds a great deal of light on the shady world of celebrity image-making. “The show takes 10 of the most familiar faces from the photographic age, from Queen Victoria to Gandhi to Greta Garbo and Adolf Hitler, and shows how they manipulated their images in order to … Continue reading “The Camera Doesn’t Lie (It Just Spins A Bit)”
Monday September 30 GIACOMETTIS SOLD: A controversial auction of Giacometti sculptures was stopped prematurely Saturday night in Paris, after 24 of the 36 pieces were sold for $5.8 million. A Paris court had agreed to a sale of work up to that amount after the “executor of Annette Giacometti’s [the sculptor’s wife] will had persuaded … Continue reading “Visual: September 2002”
Wednesday July 31 KENNEDY CENTER HONORS: This year’s Kennedy Center Honors have been announced. Chosen are Paul McCartney and Elizabeth Taylor, conductor James Levine, actor James Earl Jones and dancer and actress Chita Rivera. “Now in their 25th year, the Honors are presented by the nation’s performing arts center as a tribute to those who … Continue reading “Issues: July 2002”
Wednesday July 31 GREATER ROLE FOR ART: The Palace Museum in Taiwan holds some of China’s great art treasures. But the museum was also a political statement, created by Chiang Kai-shek after fleeing from the mainland in 1949. But now, “with the Nationalist Party’s fall from power in Taiwan, the museum has begun to change. … Continue reading “Visual: July 2002”
Wednesday July 24 CHAIM POTOK, 73: Novelist Chaim Potok, who had been ill with cancer for some time, died at his home in Pennsylvania Tuesday. “Mr. Potok came to international prominence in 1967 with his debut novel, The Chosen (Simon & Schuster). Unlike the work of the novelists Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, which dealt … Continue reading “People: July 2002”
Sunday June 30 ATTENTION MUST BE PAID. OR MUST IT? With classical music increasingly marginalized by a music industry hellbent on profit and promotion, proponents are forced to hope against hope that a snippet of Brahms, Schubert, or Strauss imbedded in a commercial or a movie might catch the interest of some listeners, and lead … Continue reading “Music: June 2002”
