Alan Davey “said that ACE would focus on strategic touring, international import and export of work, the body’s relationship with its regularly funded organisations and the way the arts council makes funding decisions. The last of these priorities will encompass a new form of peer review and self-assessment.”
Tag: 04.30.08
Does Technology That Becomes Obsolete Devalue Art Created With It?
“How will audiences of the future view art created with technologies of the past? To explore this and other delicate issues, more than 300 conservators, artists, curators and art historians gathered at the Getty Center for a three-day ‘Object in Transition’ conference earlier this year. Aimed at getting a grip on art in flux, attendees discussed new media.”
Art Basel Artistic Director Quits
“No reason was given for Cay Sophie Rabinowitz’s departure. She was not available for comment. In an interview with The Art Newspaper earlier this year, she spoke of her plans to focus the fairs back onto the artists, saying that ‘it’s important for us to acknowledge that they are the centre of everything Art Basel does’.”
Fewer Critics, More Reviews
On the web, everyone’s a critic. So while there are fewer and fer critics employed at newspapers nd traditional publications, the number of reviews is growing…
Fictional Account (Based On…)
Just who are the real-life writers who might be portrayed in the book All the Sad Young Literary Men? The book describes writers in the 1990s, and the game is on to spot the real world versions…
German Police Find Stolen South American Antiquities Worth $100 Million
“When German police searched a warehouse in the southern city of Munich they discovered an incredible treasure trove: Packed inside crates and cardboard boxes were over 1,000 Latin American antique pieces of art, thought to be worth more than $100 million.”
Activists Fight NYU Over Planned Theatre Demolition
New York University wants to demolish the historic Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village as part of its expansion. Community leaders and scholars “say the building, where Eugene O’Neill’s plays were first produced, is an important site in American theater history.”
Miley Cyrus, Venus And The Real Visual Exploitation
“Before Leibovitz, Cyrus was regularly photographed on red carpets dressed as a 35-year-old in sequins and chiffon with heavy makeup, hair extensions, fuck-me shoes, and occasionally a segment of baby breast escaping at an ill-cut armhole. Otherwise she dresses as a schoolgirl in long socks, very short skirts and the same hanks of rather gluey-looking hair. These publicity shots are far cheaper and far nastier in implication than the Leibovitz image, which has class.”
What’s So Creative When Everybody’s “Creative”?
“Businesses hold creative-thinking seminars, universities teach creative writing, ministers makes speeches puffing our ‘creative industries’. Even the splodges and squiggles that children daub in primary school are deemed creative. One could even say that the idea of creativity has become thoroughly debased.”
Fears For Rome’s Glamorous Film Fest With Election Of New Mayor
“Some of Italy’s cultural stars are already bemoaning the end of a golden age following the election of the rightist candidate Gianni Alemanno as Mayor of Rome, which has placed a question mark over the future of the city’s lavish film festival.”