Spoetry is email spam poetry. “In an unedited, authorless spoem (spam poem) ‘aardvarks sweat in gibbon rucksacks’ and ‘freight trains rejoice toothpicks, merrily’. Reminiscent of Ezra Pound, or William Burroughs’ cut-ups, spoetry transcends its mundane commercial aim and becomes, yes, art.”
Tag: 03.07.06
Auction Houses Say Buyers Pay New UK Levy
Sotheby’s and Christie’s say auction buyers will have to pay a new UK levy on the resale of art. “The artists’ resale royalties are paid on a sliding scale, based on the hammer price, and are capped at 12,500 euros ($14,904) for any individual item sold. Works costing less than 1,000 euros are excluded.”
Washington Ballet Labor Accord
Washington Ballet and its dancers have reached an agreement on a new contarct…
Producers Looking For New NY Venue For “Rachel Corrie”
London’s Royal Court Theatre is considering other opportunities to stage “My Name is Rachel Corrie” in New York after New York Theater Workshop canceled a planned production because of political concerns. “Royal Court’s statement took issue with the workshop’s assertion that the planned production of “Rachel Corrie” was not definite, saying that press releases had been finalized, previews set, budgets approved, flights booked and tickets listed for sale.”
Rewriting Art History
There’s a new “revised version of ‘Janson’s History of Art,’ a doorstopper first published in 1962 that has been a classroom hit ever since Horst Woldemar Janson wrote it while working at New York University. For a generation of baby boomers, it defined what was what and who was who in art. But in recent years it has lost its perch as the best-selling art survey and has been criticized for becoming a scholarly chestnut. So its publisher recruited six scholars from around the country and told them to rewrite as much as they wanted, to cast a critical eye on every reproduction, chapter heading and sacred cow.”