“The museum of the 21st century should be based on encounters with the unfamiliar and on exchange and debate rather than only on an idea of the perfect muse…. It has to have some anchors or fixed points for orientation and stability, but it also has to be a dynamic space for ideas, conversations and debate about new and historic art within a global context.”
Tag: 05.06.10
Through Fund, Artists Are Investing In Their Future
“APT is an art investment fund with a twist–the artists contribute the works themselves, and the trust is structured to provide future income for the artists. Now in its seventh year, it has a global portfolio of 1,100 artists and a collection of more than 4,500 works, which it values at $45m.”
Williamstown Theatre Festival Taps New Artistic Director
“The WTF has chosen Jenny Gersten to succeed Nicholas Martin, who will leave the position after the upcoming 2010 summer season.” A former associate producer at Williamstown, Gersten has since worked “in New York City: She was artistic director for The Naked Angels … and currently serves as associate producer for The Public Theatre.”
Racing To Be The Biggest Spender On A Middling Picasso
“Let’s imagine, for a minute, that this picture truly was a great cultural landmark. Would Tuesday night’s record deserve celebration, even then? What would a Martian anthropologist make of a society that produces a roomful of bidders with such vast reserves of surplus cash that they can drop more than $100 million on a fancy picture — while millions of their fellow citizens have their homes repossessed?”
As Auction Record Breaks, It Feels Ho-Hum
“Two, three, four million extra? Worth it. After all, if you’re the evening’s big spender, you not only get to own an object you’ve just helped to make fantastically valuable, but your extravagance, with your name attached or not, also buys a mention in the news. You could lay out the same bucks for a hospital wing, but it wouldn’t be the same.”
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Restored To Director’s Original Form
The “original two-and-half-hour cut was barely screened beyond the gala premiere. … Distributors both in and out of the country hacked the movie to more audience-friendly lengths, and the intended Metropolis was lost to time.” Until an enterprising film historian in Buenos Aires made a find.
Is Making Adelaide Festival Annual A Good Idea?
“As the dust settles on the Premier’s announcement, which will come with increased funding of $11 million every two years, the state’s resident artists have begun questioning whether staging a festival that seeks to attract interstate visitors with big flashy international acts would make SA a better place for artists to live.”