“The report gives new insight into this group of consistent arts attenders and participants. They are more likely to be women (57%, compared with 47% of other respondents) in the upper socio-economic group (65% compared with 43%) and to be owner-occupiers (73% compared with 57%) who live in less deprived areas (36% compared with 25%). Most of them (86%) engage with the arts three or more times a year.”
Tag: 04.29.16
Art Collectors Are Fleeing Geneva’s Scandal-Plagued Free Port
“Art collectors have begun to pull their paintings and sculptures out of Geneva’s secretive free port storage facility as the site once again finds itself under scrutiny following the identification of a $20 million Amedeo Modigliani painting in its tax-free vaults that was allegedly stolen by the Nazis.”
Why Really Bad Art Suddenly Metastisized All Over Moscow
“It was as if the city had been invaded by a horde of aliens with flamboyantly bad taste. The Moscow intelligentsia recoiled in horror.” Masha Gessen writes that “the aesthetic assault is a logical part of Moscow’s – and Russia’s – political progression.”
Auditioning For My Opera Company’s Young Artists Program? Here’s What I Am (And Am Not) Looking For
Stephen Lord, music director of Opera Theater of St. Louis talks about reviewing applications, resumes and headshots (recordings don’t help, he says); the thing that matters more than looks and size; and what’s not-negotiable in terms of voice and technique.
Mr. K-Tel Records, The Guy Who Invented The Compilation Album, Has Died
“The marketing and sales techniques pioneered in the 1960s by Philip Kives, who died on Thursday at the age of 87, might seem crude and simplistic viewed from a half-century’s distance. But they remain part of the DNA of record label marketing departments today.”
Latinx Artists Find Common Ground – In Frustration
“We’re in an age where there’s a lot of fire, there’s a lot of confrontation around identity. … We’re looking at what we’re putting (on) the table and looking at who’s accepting it and who’s not, so I think this conversation is really timely.”
The SF Chronicle Hires A Young, Local Theatre Writer To Be Its New Full-Time Critic
“All of us theatre people start just enthralled to this art form and wanting to participate in any way we can. The most visible way to do that is acting, and most of us try that first and are terrible at it. Not a few of us drop out and just become lifelong audience members, but others keep trying to hang on and do something around the theatre. I’ve always been a writer, and at first I thought playwriting would be it. But I guess I’m only good at writing in my own voice.”
What Ballet Does For Dancers In Lagos
“The troupe at Span may have started out as a group of fun loving impromptu dancers in the boroughs of Lagos but they have grown to become award-winning internationally recognized artists.”
All Of The Colors Of The World
“The collection’s crown jewel is a rich ball of mustard-y Indian Yellow. This pigment comes not from maize, nor earth, but from the dehydrated urine of a cow subsisting exclusively on mango leaves.”
Well, Turns Out Prince Had A Secret Music Vault That His Estate Has Now Drilled Into
Yes, with a literal drill. There’s so much music in the shelf-lined, formerly secret vault that “his estate could put out an album a year for the next century.”