Do Opera And Art Museums Mix? An Experiment
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-07-02
Jeremy Denk Responds re The Classical Style
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-07-01
The middlebrow minstrel
AJBlog: About Last Night | Published 2014-07-01
Do You Know the Way to Cy Près? What’s Wrong with Corcoran’s Court Petition
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-07-01
Back To Koons: More Food For Thought
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-07-01
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“The increase of 22% is a shade less than the 27% full year gain made last year when annual B.O. rose to $3.6 billion, though the first half has regularly been slower than the second semester.”
“Overall, 33 organisations have been removed from the Arts Council’s roster and three quarters of the 670 organisations have had their funding frozen. The ENO has had its annual grant cut from £17.2m in 2014/15 to £12.4m in the next financial year.”
“I could arguably say I wrote that, though what’s different about that and real composing is that I didn’t have a blank page and have to come up with something out of nothing.”
“To make something, you have to be a deep-sea diver. You can have fear at the beginning, but then ultimately when curiosity takes over — at least this happens for me — then my fear goes away little by little because I get really interested in what I’ve discovered. We’re the R & D branch of the world, doing research and development all the time just to make an artwork. Making an artwork itself is a political statement in the world that we’re living in.”
“The acquisition could provide Hachette more leverage in its negotiations with Amazon because it will give the company control over more attractive books.”
“Do I have the right to write about a firefight in Falluja, if I wasn’t there? Does it demonstrate respect and admiration for the soldiers, and show evidence of their importance in our culture? Or does it insult those who risked their lives, if I take literary possession of that experience?”
