The Virtual Arts – Have It Your Way?
C-NET came away from this month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas pronouncing that virtual reality is going to displace traditional porn. … Why should you care? Because virtual reality and its cousin “augmented” reality are getting heavy investment far beyond the porn industry, … and a new generation of immersive viewer-controlled experience is about to take off. …read more
AJBlog: Diacritical Published 2016-01-26
Engaging Early Music
I recently had the opportunity to meet with leaders of several arts groups in Seattle. One was Gus Denhard, executive director of Seattle’s Early Music Guild. In the course of the conversation, he told me … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2016-01-26
Frank Collett, RIP
Producer Dick Bank reports that pianist Frank Collett died of liver failure yesterday in Pasadena, California. Collett was 74. He led his own trio and in the course of his career worked with Louis Armstrong, … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-01-26
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Indonesia To Get Its First International Modern Art Museum
“The private institution will be called the Museum MACAN, for Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara, an Indonesian term for archipelago. It is being built and financed by the Indonesian businessman and collector Haryanto Adikoesoemo.”
Another NY Gallery Blocked From Facebook After Posting Artist Photo
For the second time since his eponymous Bushwick gallery opened, Christopher Stout logged onto Facebook to find that his account had been frozen. The gallerist, whose interest lies in “subversive art,” had posted an image of Lisa Levy, who plans to sit naked on top of a toilet for two straight days in order to call out “the bullshit trendy art dialogue” that she says is plaguing the art world.
How We Did Shakespeare In Sign Language: A Deaf Theatre Company At The Globe
Paula Garfield, director of Deafinitely Theatre: “Rehearsing was a painful, slow process. We began with a two-week translation stage: it’s not about simply doing it word for word. … Even translating the title into BSL was difficult. I began with the signs for ‘love’, ‘work’ and ‘loss’ – but that doesn’t really make it clear.”