“Lhota threatened the museum’s financing from the city, raised the specter of evicting it from its home in Prospect Heights and declared that, when assessing what art should be displayed to the public, the sensibility that really mattered to him was that of his 8-year-old daughter, Kathryn.”
Tag: 03.27.13
Danish Artist Found Guilty Of Infringing Copyright In Porn Collage
“Von Hornsleth said the collage was his artistic reaction to Stockmann’s article and claimed freedom of expression. He wanted to reply to her in his own language and the pornographic work showed how critics ‘fuck’ others in the sense that they criticise them, he said. Kabré described the collage as ‘a personal attack motivated by revenge.'”
Search For Stolen Stradivarius Ends In Disappointment
“Following an Interpol alert, Bulgarian police last month seized a violin which they believed to be the stolen instrument made by the Italian artisan in 1696.”
San Francisco’s Fine Arts Museums Finally Settle On Director
“The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have named Colin Bailey as their new director. Bailey, who most recently served as the deputy director and chief curator at the Frick Collection in New York, will head the De Young Museum and the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.”
Peabody Awards 2013 To Game Change, Doctor Who, 60 Minutes, Louis CK, Girls
Among other honorees for the best in electronic media – in addition to the usual New York Times, NPR, CBS and HBO – are local coverage of the Newtown, CT massacre; Michael Apted’s Up series of films; Lorne Michaels; Marina Abramovic; and SCOTUSblog.
Maybe It’s Not That The French Are Unhappy
“It it may well be that the French are only less likely to call themselves happy – and what’s unclear is whether the gloomy or skeptical turns of phrase that they use to describe their states of mind correlate to their actual states of mind. It may be the language of happiness that eludes the French rather than the underlying condition.”
Marcel Duchamp, Chess Master
“He achieved the status of chess master and, with the help of tactician Vitaly Halberstadt, even wrote a book on, yes, endgame strategy. It got a title similar to the names of his gnomic artworks: Opposition and Sister Squares are Reconciled. Retroactively, at least, his newfound passion conferred a depth and intensity of thought upon all those throwaway Dadaist sculptures.”
Lessons In Social Marketing From The Book Of Mormon
“It would be easy merely to dismiss the [very mixed bag of] reviews as an irrelevance, but they were utilised as another consciousness-raising weapon in the Mormon armoury while the real work was being done by Twitter and Facebook missionaries who have been advocating on the show’s behalf for months.”
March Madness For Urbanists
The Atlantic Cities has launched the Urbanist Toolkit Bracket Challenge, a tournament wherein readers vote for their favorite city planning tools. In the opening Round of 32 (with regional brackets called “Sidewalk Ballet”, “Le Corbusier” and “Ed Koch”), streetcars defeated bus rapid transit, food trucks faced down pop-up parks, and car share services saw off redesigned highway interchanges.
Solving The Orchestra Crisis (First, Stop Overpaying Everyone!)
“Both the musicians and the management of our major orchestras are overpaid. … Over the past 30 years they have demanded higher and higher paychecks while ticket sales and recording revenues have continued to drop dramatically. There is no business in the world that can sustain a negative revenue model like that.” (Emphasis in original.)