“All these years later, the new attacks disguised as book notices strongly suggest that professional attitudes toward criticism have changed drastically. Since the advent of the Internet and the rise of review aggregators like Rotten Tomatoes, the illusion of consensus opinion now dominates the culture’s perception of criticism. Individual critics’ voices matter less than the roar of the crowd, which judges films as “fresh” or “rotten” and drowns out anyone who begs to differ.”
Tag: 03.12
What Does It Mean To Be A Modern Museum?
“In the United States, there were 46 art museums in 1905, 60 in 1910, and 387 in 1938. Today there are 3,500 art museums, more than half of them founded after 1970, and 17,000 museums of all types in total, including science museums, children’s museums, and historical houses. Attendance at American art museums is booming, rising from 22 million a year in 1962 to over 100 million in 2000, with 850 million Americans visiting museums of all varieties each year. Yet if today’s museums are successful cultural caterers with wide-ranging menus, no matter where we find them, their fare manages to taste more and more the same.”
When Movies Mattered – The 70’s
“During this golden age, a night at the movies was still an evening’s entertainment, but it was also an invitation to discuss important works of art that were shaped by, and in dialogue with, the political, social, and philosophical issues of their times.”
Are The Arts Overbuilt? Adrian Ellis Makes The Case…
“The map of the woods indicates that supply has overshot demand and failed to stimulate demand sufficiently for it to catch up.”
Micro-Funding In The Arts – Low-Stakes, High-Impact Investment
“The Awesome Foundation was founded in 2009 in Boston by a guy named Tim Hwang. He came up with the simple formula of 10 people giving $100 each that is handed out as grants on a monthly basis. It went from the one chapter in Boston to four chapters to 12 chapters. Two years later, it’s at 30 chapters.”
In Today’s Art Scene, Sculpture Rocks
“It’s the most exciting area of the art world right now for collectors and viewers alike, and there’s a simple reason for that. … It’s a really experimental age for sculpture,’ partly because of digital imaging, the addition of sound, and other innovations that offer new opportunities to be creative in three dimensions.”
The Science Of Willpower
“Willpower–the popular idea is that it’s something that you use to resist temptation and to make yourself work. But they’ve also found that this same energy is used in making decisions, simply deciding what to have for lunch, what to do at a meeting; all these things deplete the same resource. After a while, when you’ve depleted this resource, it’s a state called ego depletion.”