Some of the questions NY’s monuments committee considered: “If monuments have the power to write history, who, in any given case, is wielding that power? Was the history true when written, and has that truth changed over time? Does the history serve positive or negative ends? Promote inclusion or divisiveness? If monuments are, like history, intrinsically complex, not easily defined as ‘right’ or ‘wrong,’ is complexity alone enough to justify a contested monument’s continuing presence?”
Tag: 01.12.18
Who’s In Charge Of The Seats At The Royal Albert Hall?
Some of the seats are owned by private people, who can resell them for a profit. And those seatholders? Make up the majority of the council that runs the charity that runs the hall. Now, “A row over the governance of the Royal Albert Hall will be referred to tribunal, it has been confirmed, after the venue was reported to the UK’s top law officer.”
The Question Returns: Are These Paintings Modiglianis Or Not?
Not for the first time, some of the many works attributed to the artist are very much under scrutiny, and “an art expert has written a report, leaked by the Italian news media, for state prosecutors that says a third of the works in a popular Modigliani exhibition last year in Genoa, Italy, are fakes.” (That’s right: One THIRD.)
Robert Caro Teams With Carnegie Hall For A Festival Examining The 1960s
We associate the ’60s with the counterculture and protests against government. But that was also when the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, so often under attack in recent years, were established.
Richmond’s New Institute For Contemporary Art Loses Its Director Three Months Before Opening
Lisa Freiman came from the Indianapolis Museum of Art (where she was the top curator for contemporary work) 4½ years ago as the first director of the museum at the city’s Virginia Commonwealth University. She gave no reason for her departure other than wanting to return to her scholarly work (she’s staying on at the university as a faculty member).