“Notwithstanding [Los Angeles Mayor Antonio] Villaraigosa’s hopes of moving in ‘the other direction,’ it appears that the flow of money from the municipal treasury to the city’s $9.6-million-a-year Department of Cultural Affairs will continue to ebb.” The “city government spent $7.99 per capita on the arts in 2009, compared with New York’s $18.52.”
Tag: 01.06.10
Kenneth Noland, Leading Color Field Painter, Is Dead At 85
“[He] found his way toward geometric forms that served as vessels for vibrant washes of color stained into the canvas. In successive series of paintings, he introduced subtle changes into geometric forms that evolved from circles, chevrons, stripes and diamonds and back again to the circle late in his career.”
Defying Ban, Swiss Man Erects Minaret
“In November, Switzerland voted to ban the construction of new minarets, the towerlike structures that adorn mosques. A week or so later, in an apparent act of defiance, a new minaret unexpectedly sprang up here.”