“The vast majority of people don’t even enter art’s primary economy, the buying and selling of art, but they interact consistently with art’s secondary economy, the viewing economy. We don’t pay for art; we pay for the right to see it. And mostly, we pay very little.”
Tag: 07.15.08
Art Of Death (Of Course, It’s The Boomers’ Turn)
“The death-care industry remains such a strong bastion of quiet conformity partly because the reformers of the baby-boom generation haven’t started dying yet. The boomers have insisted on variety and individuality at every threshold of their lives: sex, marriage, parenthood. In their wide demographic wake. But the boomers are myopic reformers. Generally speaking, they have only just begun to think about death, so have only just begun to pressure cemeteries and funeral homes for change.”
Literary Style In A Tattoo
People whose body art is inspired by their favourite novel, poem or song are posting pictures on their tattoos on number of new blogs and websites devoted to the trend.
Why Artists Shouldn’t Explain
“No serious art is easy to interpret. Nor is there ever a single valid interpretation of art. If art is good, there are many things to be said about it and much that will remain unsayable.”
Pauline Kael’s Trash Revolution
“Kael, whose critical reputation was in its early stages, used Bonnie and Clyde as the opening shot in what turned out to be a war against middlebrow, middle-class, middle-of-the-road taste.She announced no less than a revolution in taste that she sensed in the air. Movie audiences, she said, were going beyond ‘good taste,’ moving into a period of greater freedom and openness.”
Glass Houses Abound In Columbus
One of the reasons cited by the Columbus Symphony’s executive director in proposing the dismissal of music director Junichi Hirokami is that the conductor “hasn’t put down roots in central Ohio.” But several of the musicians are pointing out that the executive director himself stays in a Columbus hotel room after two years on the job, and lives in Boston with his family.
Columbus Symphony Musicians Reject Board Proposals
Columbus Symphony musicians have rejected a contract offer from the symphony board that would have cut salaries and caused the firing of Music Director Junichi Hirokami.
Peter Martins Inducted Into Dance Hall Of Fame
“Mr. Martins, a former principal dancer with the company, joins nearly 40 other members of the Dance Hall of Fame, including George Balanchine, his mentor and a founder of the New York City Ballet.”
Brooklyn Museum Puts The Fakes Out Front
“While most major museums have some fakes in their collections, few like to advertise the fact. But in an unusual move, the Brooklyn Museum is planning an exhibition for 2009 that will call attention to a group of forgeries among its collection of Coptic sculptures.”
Romeo & Juliet Without Sympathy
“Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose. But if they’re going to give us an alternative version of a story, they have to justify it by the originality and conviction of what they bring to it. The big question is why the ultra-intelligent Mark Morris put so much effort into a story for which he obviously has so little sympathy?”