“The New York-based Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has committed up to $10 million, and the J. Paul Getty Trust of Los Angeles has pledged $3 million to the federally mediated deal, … , which would protect the city-owned DIA from having to sell its treasures while easing cuts to city pensioners in Detroit’s bankruptcy.”
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€100,000 Impac Dublin Literary Award Goes To South American For First Time
“Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez today emerged as the 2014 winner with the third of his novels to appear in English, The Sound of Things Falling, translated by Canadian Anne McLean.”
Crowdfunding For Stage Projects In Britain Is Catching On Fast
The number of donors increased by nearly 700% between the beginning of 2014 and the end of March; the amount pledged rose at a similar rate over the period – and then doubled from that in April.
Tony Committee Drops Sound Design Award; Sound Designers Make Noise
“Sound designers working on Broadway and at theaters nationwide erupted in outrage after a committee that oversees the Tony Awards decided Wednesday to eliminate future awards for best sound design of a play and of a musical.”
Now Everyone Can Sample, And Other Grammy Category And Rule Tweaks
The primary change is that “samples and interpolations of previously written songs [will] be allowed in all Grammy Award songwriting categories, including song of the year. … Previously, samples or interpolations were allowed in only the Best Rap Song category.”
An App That Makes You Dance, With Real Choreography
“Bounden works like this: two players hold the phone from opposite ends and guide a cursor through a sort of maze on the screen while music plays; the shape of the maze forces the players to twist, spin, and loop around and under each other, as in a dance. The underlying choreography was developed by Ernst Meisner of the Dutch National Ballet, and the app contains videos of company members performing the finished dances.”
If You’re Going To Forge An Artist’s Work, Spell His Name Right In The Signature
One of the paintings that Knoedler & Company sold as a Jackson Pollock was signed “Pollok”. “The gallery’s former president, Ann Freedman, insisted that she and her colleagues had had no reason to think that any of the paintings were counterfeit.”
The Sniffy, Scandalized Letter That Sealed the UK Government’s Ban of ‘Ulysses’
“In this 1922 letter, the British Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Archibald Bodkin, issued an official opinion on James Joyce’s book Ulysses: ‘In my opinion, there is more, and a great deal more than mere vulgarity or coarseness, there is a great deal of unmitigated filth and obscenity.'”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.12.14
Museum-Going: Getting Even More Virtual
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-06-13
Christopher Rouse: New music for existential terror
AJBlog: Condemned to Music | Published 2014-06-13
Frick Expansion Bonus: Opening the Upstairs Rooms
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-06-12
David Harding: The World’s First Town Artist
AJBlog: Aesthetic Grounds | Published 2014-06-12
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Sarah Brightman to Pay $52 Million To Be First Singer In Space
British singer Sarah Brightman is scheduled to begin training this year for a 2015 flight to the International Space Station where she hopes to become the first professional musician to sing from space, according to the company arranging the trip.