“The tour of Germany, Armenia and Russia, announced earlier this year as a “last hurrah” for well-loved Russian principal conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, fell over after an agreement with venues in St Petersburg and Moscow on appearance fees could not be reached.”
Tag: 04.02.13
Martin Scorsese On Why We Need To Preserve Film
“I grew up with celluloid, with its particular beauty and its idiosyncrasies. But cinema has always been tied to technological development, and if we spend too much time lamenting what’s gone, then we’re going to miss the excitement of what’s happening now. But in order to experience something, and find new values in it, it’s got to be there in the first place. You have to preserve – you have to preserve it. All of it.”
Have We Lost The Art Of Protest Art?
“If it adds nothing more than a speech or a newspaper report could do, then it is not art. That we may approve of the message doesn’t make it good. It needs to expose the truth, but not one that we can see easily for ourselves.”
Glories Restored, Rijksmuseum Is Reopening After 10 Years
“Instead of fighting the building, we have embraced it and accepted its eccentricities,” said the museum’s director of collections. “This was built as a national museum, not just an art museum, and we want the public to get a sense of history, seeing the paintings, furniture and applied arts that were all conceived around the same time.”
Just How Hard Is It To Run An Arts Organization?
“The chief executive of Big Corp has to deal with shareholders, staff and customers. Arts managers have a fraction of a corporation’s turnover yet have many stakeholders: often three levels of government, multiple donors and sponsors. The level of stakeholder servicing can seem grossly disproportionate to the sums involved.”
From Sierra Leone’s Civil War To Dance Theater Of Harlem
“No matter how much she may ever achieve, the most stunning fact of Michaela DePrince’s life will always be that it ever happened at all.”