Lincoln Center announced in the fall that it was pulling the plug on the Lincoln Center Festival, the multidisciplinary summer festival it had presented since 1996. Officials said that the move was partly intended to save money, … but there was also a desire to consolidate programming: Lincoln Center Festival was in some ways essentially competing with Mostly Mozart, which had expanded its range in recent years.”
Tag: 03.05.18
Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.05.18
Anne-Sophie Mutter and André Previn: Music from the divorce that didn’t work
Anne-Sophie Mutter has long maintained supreme artistic poise in the classical violin world, but the wild card in her repertoire has often come from her ex-husband, the multi-Oscar-winning composer André Previn. … read more
AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published 2018-03-05
Misunderstood and Maligned
Poor Grant Wood. Seventy-years after his death, his work is widely known – thanks to American Gothic – but equally widely misunderstood, under-appreciated and, recalling the old insult to George W. Bush, misunderestimated. … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2018-03-04
Tainted money
[Jerry Saltz’s] is not the first, nor will it be the last, protest over donations to an art or educational institution from a questionable source. How should we think about this? … read more
AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2018-03-04
Dispatched from the Audition Room
I say to colleagues that our personal artistic opinions are not as important in considering prospective students as our expert evaluation of their potential. It may be quite difficult to make such a distinction. … read more
AJBlog: PianoMorphosis Published 2018-03-05
Update On State Funding For The Arts In The US
Pam Breaux of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies: Overall, state governments invest $357.5 million in state arts agencies; that represents about $1.08 per capita. During fiscal year 2018, legislative appropriations to state arts agencies decreased by 2.4%; yet, there are distinctions among the states. Twenty-two state arts agencies reported increases in 2018; fifteen reported flat funding, and nineteen reported decreases (50 states and 6 jurisdictions total). The most significant revenue challenge faced by state arts agencies is that they’re inextricably linked to fluctuations in state tax coffers.
Why Does Facebook Keep Banning Art Images?
If you’re Facebook, who cares about occasionally having to apologize to a random Italian arts activist, piss off an Austrian national history museum, or (worst case) pay less than $25,000 in damages to a French kindergarten teacher for being slightly too prudish?
Great Design, Norman Foster – Three People Have Been Hurt Walking Into Glass At Apple’s HQ
Actually, many more people have walked into the glass, but three people, in the first month of operation, have been hurt enough to call emergency services. “The glass has been specially treated to achieve an exact level of transparency and whiteness. The doorways reportedly have perfectly flat thresholds because ‘if engineers had to adjust their gait when entering the building, they risked distraction from their work’, according to a construction manager.”
When Aesthetics Meets Politics In A Triennial Survey, Naivete Abounds
Peter Schjeldahl: In principle, the show’s aim reflects the New Museum’s valuable policy of incubating upstart trends in contemporary art. But it comes off as willfully naïve. Nearly all the artists plainly hail from an international archipelago of art schools and hip scenes and have embarked upon normal career paths. Noting that they share political discontents, as the young tend to do, is easy. Harder, in the context, is registering their originality as creators—like bumps under an ideological blanket. But there’s insight to gain about emergent sensibilities in world art, without hustling everybody toward illusory barricades.