“At 11 p.m. [Tuesday], activists from groups including Occupy Museums and Occupy the Pipeline gathered on the street in front of the museum for a performance art-style demonstration about a natural gas pipeline that is adjacent to the $422 million building and its vast art collection. A corner of the Whitney’s building became a canvas for their slogans, projected in light over the glassed-in lobby.”
Tag: 04.15.15
Dictionary Of American Regional English, Short Of Funding, Faces Shutdown
“DARE, as the dictionary is known, has announced that it will shutter most of its operations this summer unless it can find new sources of funding to cover its roughly $525,000 annual budget. The print dictionary had been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, among other sources. More recently, the budget was covered in large part by stopgap grants from the university, which are set to run out.”
UK’s Royal Ballet Starts New Residency For Young Choreographers
“Called the Royal Ballet Young Choreographer Programme, the scheme is a year-long position in which the chosen choreographer will be mentored by Royal Ballet director Kevin O’Hare and choreographer Wayne McGregor. They will also shadow the company and create new work.”
The Chauvet Cave Art Replica Is Bogus And Ridiculous, Says Jonathan Jones
“Picture this. Visitors to the Vatican arrive in St Peter’s Square … After looking at a display on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes, they are filtered into a full-scale replica, with a ceiling that is a giant photograph of the famous artwork. Perhaps one day this may come about, as the Vatican worries about preserving its artistic treasures. But I suspect no one would be very happy to visit a substitute Sistine Chapel. What would be the point? … Why then is it considered perfectly reasonable to offer fake ice age art as a cultural attraction?”
E-Short Stories For 99 Cents, Just Like Singles From iTunes
“Vintage/Anchor Books is now experimenting with selling short stories à la carte, through its Vintage Shorts digital imprint. Throughout May, to mark Short Story Month, Vintage will release a digital short story each day for 99 cents, the price of many iTunes singles.” The range is wide, form Poe, Chekhov, and Cather to Alice Munro, Jhumpa Lahiri and Junot Diaz.
Alan Gilbert’s Manifesto On The Future Of Orchestras
“The problem has been that as orchestras are involved in more and more areas, it is often not clear why they are doing what they are doing, When it does not connect to the core of the organization, you start to wonder what the point is. This has led to an industry-wide existential soul-searching in which at least some forces have pushed back, not wanting to see their beloved old-world musical traditions altered.”
Three Major Cultural Leaders Have Stepped Down In London. They Leave A Legacy Of Achievements
Neil MacGregor at the British Museum, Nicholas Hytner at the National Theatre and Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic Theatre. “As the three men all took up their posts between 2002-4, their incumbencies have overlapped for a decade and all faced a very similar challenge: how to attract larger and broader audiences at a time when, in the case of Hytner and MacGregor, their public funding was diminishing in real terms and, for Spacey, was non-existent.”
Wallace Foundation Makes Major Investment In Building New Audiences For Arts
“The grants announced Wednesday total $10.2 million. They cover a 12- to 22-month “cycle” in which each recipient will conduct research needed to solidify a plan that might involve different kinds of performances, taking shows to different kinds of venues, using different marketing approaches and providing educational add-ons to help audiences connect more deeply with what they’re seeing.”
Toronto Film Festival To Start Including TV Shows
It’s a sign of the surging quality of television. “Given how many filmmakers work in television, it’s certainly a natural fit from a creator standpoint.”
Defending British Dance Training: Well, Everybody Seems To Like Our Choreographers
Kevin O’Hare, artistic director of the Royal Ballet: “Look at Benjamin Millepied’s first season for the Paris Opera. He’s got Wayne McGregor, Chris Wheeldon and Liam Scarlett involved, and Arthur Pita. In Britain, we’ve got choreographers that people around the world want.”