“The big message here is that whoever that founding donor is, unless they’re willing to put enormous endowments behind their vision, their organizations won’t survive if they don’t invite other people in.”
Tag: 03.27.15
Google Is Adding A Mission – Documenting Street Art Before It Disappears
“Offering the best the street art world has to offer, the Google collection is an obvious boon for fans of the medium and benefits artists by giving them worldwide exposure. But cataloging, quantifying and curating run contrary to the street art ethos adhered to by artists whose ephemeral messages admonish and amuse people around the world.”
Hilary Mantel’s Notes On How Actors Should Play The Characters Of ‘Wolf Hall’
For Anne Boleyn: “In your lifetime you are the focus of every lurid story that the imagination of Europe can dream up. From the moment you enter public consciousness, you carry the projections of everyone who is afraid of sex or ashamed of it. You will never be loved by the English people.”
Would A Telepathy Machine Help Us – Or Should We Work On Empathy Instead?
“A telepathy machine, if it could ever be built, would undoubtedly have wonderful applications. It could allow people who are immobilised by a stroke or neurological disease to communicate, or create incredible opportunities for artists to collaborate. But it seems unlikely that it could broadcast world peace.”
Museums And Galleries Shutter As Yemen’s Political Unrest Turns To War
“Yemen’s artists, with photography a prominent art form that has produced several significant female photographers, were still working and producing interesting art, curators say. But ‘it is quite a challenge to be an artist in the country.'”
A Planned Skyscraper In The Alps Elicits Furious Response
“The outsize nature of the structure in the town of just 1,000 permanent residents is matched by the prices tourists will pay: according to The Telegraph, rooms at 7132, as the proposed hotel is called, will run from $1,000 to $24,000 per night.”
Will The Tate Give Back A Possibly Looted Constable?
“Tate Gallery says ‘new information’ has emerged over a John Constable painting in its collection thought to have been stolen by the Nazis. It has asked for a review of a recommendation that it should return the work to the heirs of the original owner.”
L.A. Actors Definitely At Odds With Each Other Over Equity’s 99-Seat Theatre Plan
Equity “surveyed its L.A. actors about ‘being a working theater professional in Los Angeles and what it’s like to be an Equity member,’ followed by focus groups and a town hall where members overwhelmingly spoke in favor of reforming, but not eliminating, the longstanding 99-seat plan.”
Seriously, Ballet, What Is Your Deal With Dancers Who Aren’t White?
“Dancers of color are again supplicants at the gate, begging to be accepted in an art form that literally can’t see us and so will not let us in.”
Carey Perloff: The Big Challenges For American Theatre
She’s disturbed by the way “many large-scale institutional theaters today have become roadhouses to incubate commercial productions headed for Broadway,” alarmed at the “relative paucity of female voices rising to the top of our profession” and frustrated that funding sources are so heavily focused on new-play development that there is “virtually no support for the training of actors” and not all that much for new approaches to the classics.