“Her portrait sold for £17m but Sue Tilley,” known as artist Lucien Freud’s muse, “says the tabloids are only interested in getting her to strip… ‘Just because I took my clothes off for Lucian Freud, that doesn’t mean I’m a nudist or a floozy or whatever.'”
Tag: 04.18.08
An Ecstatic Addition To Manhattan’s Skyline?
Architect Jean Nouvel’s design “for a condo and hotel resting on three floors of new galleries for the Museum of Modern Art is an ecstatic reproach to Manhattan’s regularity. It would be to the skyline what Broadway is to the street grid: an indispensable violation and a zagging flourish.”
Can Web Video Make The Leap To TV?
“Despite the buzz surrounding online shorts, it’s telling how little drawn from that well percolates into fully formed TV programs. And for now, anyway, without making that leap, much of what’s on the Web still qualifies as a hobby — mini head-trips for office slackers and those too cheap to buy quality weed.”
WTC “Freedom Tower” Plans Found In Street Garbage Can
Two sets of confidential blueprints for the planned Freedom Tower, which is set to rise at Ground Zero, were carelessly dumped in a city garbage can on the corner of West Houston and Sullivan streets, The Post has learned.
The Endangered Record Store
“Some 3,100 record stores around the country have closed since 2003, according to the Almighty Institute of Music Retail, a market research firm. And that’s not just the big boxes like the 89 Tower Records outlets that closed at the end of 2006; nearly half were independent shops. In Manhattan and Brooklyn at least 80 stores have shut down in the last five years.”
Honolulu Symphony On Verge Of Collapse
The troubled Honolulu Symphony is seven weeks behind in paying its musicians and staff. And “with just weeks left in the symphony’s 2007-08 season, officials say the century-old institution needs $1.5 million to $2 million to pull itself out of debt.”
Deutsche Staatsoper’s Leadership Crisis Explodes
Open warfare has exploded in the hallowed halls of the Deutsche Staatsoper Unter den Linden.
The Sad Sad Shape Of Writing About Art Today
“From the late 19th century to just after World War II, writing about modern art was clear. It had to be. Today, when curators and critics can count on a large audience willing to embrace new art simply because it is new, they don’t have to try as hard.” The result? Sludgy writing that is a pleasure for no one and is purposely obscure.