“The ‘of-privilege’ institutions sit in an Art Burst showcase thinking ‘Do I really have to sit through another autobiographical identity politics solo show telling me things about poverty and racism that everyone in this room already agrees with and is working to solve?’ while the more diverse organizations see the funding that goes to European and contemporary work and feel alienated by what appears to an unfair elitist, Eurocentric bias.”
Tag: 02.27.13
When Star Choreographers Get Old Enough, They Can Unleash Furies
“Paul Taylor and Jirí Kylián are both airing their rebellious streak right into their advanced years. Having survived past the point of vulnerability in their careers, they are saying things that might have gotten them into trouble if they’d said them earlier.”
Top Baroque Oboist Washington McClain Dies Suddenly
After spending the 1990s in Toronto’s Tafelmusik, McClain became a professor at Indiana University’s Early Music Institute, principal oboe for period ensembles in Montreal (Ensemble Arion) and Cleveland (Apollo’s Fire), and one of the most personally beloved individuals in North America’s Baroque music community.
Is Digital Comic Book Publisher Showing The Future Of Print Publishing?
“MonkeyBrain has quickly established itself as one of the most interesting companies in the digital space not only because of its willingness to leave so much control in the hands of actual comics creators, but also its real-time exploration of what it means to publish digitally in a medium that is still finding its footing in the format.”
Museums – Coming To A Cinema Near You
“Leonardo Live,” the 100-minute cinemacast that gave a tour of the paintings in a popular London exhibit as guided by a couple of hosts and a selection of talking heads, played in almost 500 U.S. movie theaters in a one-night-only showing, selling more 100,000 tickets, according to BY Experience.
The Largest Expansion Of Community Radio In American History
“The goal is to dot the country with 100-watt transmitters, primarily in urban areas, and restore some of the diversity lost to corporate consolidation of radio.”
A Debate About Which Music Gets Celebrated
“Byrne worried about the professionalization of music – the idea that young people were being discouraged from making music for the love of it and being taught that there was a professional class of musician whose job it is to create music and a consumer class whose job it is to listen.”
Remembering The Remarkable Van Cliburn
“He had several very good years as a pianist, but he burned out, never really growing into a mature artist. He appears to have tried too hard to please, to live up to what had become the impossible expectations.”
Are The Met Opera’s Movie Simulcasts Hurting The Company’s Box Office?
“Peter Gelb has at least raised the possibility that some opera lovers feel less need to pay his (inflated) ticket prices when they can see the same production at a movie theater.”
San Francisco’s Fine Arts Museums On A Firing Binge?
Just since Thanksgiving, the Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums, which runs the DeYoung and Legion of Honor and has been without a director for 14 months, has dismissed the longtime staff photographer, the curator of European art, and both members of the exhibitions design department.