“New York City Ballet fans accustomed to sitting in the lofty fourth ring of the David H. Koch Theater are a hardy band of passionate balletomanes, and they’re angry that the company has decided to stop selling most of the low-priced nosebleed tickets.”
Tag: 06.23.11
Ai Weiwei Released On ‘Bail’
“Chinese legal authorities released the dissident artist Ai Weiwei on Wednesday after a three-month detention, apparently ending a prosecution that had become a focal point of criticism of China’s eroding human rights record.”
Disconnect: Have Our Arts Institutions Fallen In To A Moral Gap?
“Perhaps it’s not too romantic to suggest that art, and the institutions that advance it, should, among other things, engage our better moral senses and our common trials and aspirations, or risk irrelevance.”
Are We Ghettoizing Our Cultural History?
“With any prospective Latino museum set to sit alongside the National Museum of the American Indian and a scheduled African-American museum, the story of the American people will be segregated into separate buildings, each devoted to a particular ethnic category. Is there not a danger that American history is being fragmented into self-contained ghettos?”
Donated Picasso Raises Millions For Research
“The University of Sydney, which was given the 1935 painting Jeune Fille Endormie, by an anonymous donor, will use the money for specialist research chairs in its still under-construction multidisciplinary research centre.”
Have We Raised A “Lost” Generation Of Artists?
“A feedback loop has formed; art is turned into a fixed shell game, moving the same pieces around a limited board. All this work is highly competent, extremely informed, and supremely cerebral. But it ends up part of some mannered International School of Silly Art.”
New Generation Of Self-Published Authors Hit Big With E-Books
Apart from their material, the key to success has been learning how best to market their material, including “piggy-backing” on the success of other similar e-books, as well as cross-promoting within their own two novels.
Should We All Be Enhanced By Computers? (Careful What You Wish For)
“The debate between repair and enhancement is long-standing in medicine (and sports, and education, and genetics), though it gets louder and more complicated as technology advances.”