Under Apartheid, artists were suppressed and mistreated and their art quashed. Now the enormous task of rebuilding a culture. Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer was part of the cultural resistance, and tells of her vision for a cultural rebirth. – Media Channel
Tag: 02.03.00
SCIENCE OF ART
The scientific community has discovered the arts world, investing in arts projects. The artists bring outside-the-box thinking with their projects. – New York Times
HIGH RENT DISTRICT
Seattle rents are forcing out many of the city’s artists. A new set of evictions points up a much more complicated problem than the traditional greedy-old-developer-against-helpless-artists scenario. – Seattle Post-Intelligencer
THE CODE
US Senators Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) and Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) took their plea for an entertainment industry “code of conduct” to New York Monday before a group of about 200 members of the entertainment industry. – Los Angeles Times
BLOCKBUSTERING
- It was another great year for the museum blockbuster show. Record crowds everywhere, and the number of big-time shows increased. The numbers may be great, say some, but the challenge is to broaden interest beyond the wildly popular Impressionists and antiquities shows. – New York Times
THEFT-TO-ORDER
- Police believe that the theft of a Cezanne from Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum over New Year’s was a theft-for-hire job. Such art thefts aren’t unusual. Art is easily transported and convertible to cash, and the steal-to-order trade is flourishing. – New York Times
ARTFUL ESTATE
You’re an artist and you’ve worked all your life for fame, honor and sales. And you’ve had some success, selling a few important pieces to museums and collectors. But the vast majority of your works sit in storage racks in your studio, unsold and unloved, except by you. But if you die tomorrow, the IRS could assess devastating taxes against your estate, based on the proven market value of the few pieces you’ve sold. What’s an artist to do? In Cleveland, a plan. – The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
NEVER MEANT TO BE SHOWN
“Hitler practicing his oratory in front of a bedroom mirror; the Ayatollah Khomeini being stripped by souvenir hunters at his funeral; Parisians caught in a bomb attack on the Metro” – these photos, never meant to be seen, are part of a new show in London. – London Evening Standard
HIGH RENT DISTRICT
Seattle rents are forcing out many of the city’s artists. A new set of evictions points up a much more complicated problem than the traditional greedy-old-developer-against-helpless-artists scenario. – Seattle Post-Intelligencer
THE TORONTO SYMPHONY STRIKE may be over –
– but now comes the hard part – repairing relationships, and, perhaps more important, figuring out how an already-broke orchestra is going to afford an extra $5 million management agreed to pay its players over the next four years. – CBC