I’ve studied great painters all my life — most of my favorites are European: Caravaggio, Picasso. When I discovered Chicano painters, I knew they were great painters because I knew what great painting was. That’s what attracted me, not: “They’re Chicano and those are my people!”
Tag: 07.27.17
Philadelphia’s Army Of Theatre Voters
Theatre Philadelphia expanded the pool of nominators this year from 60 to 70, “to ensure we had all the voices in the room — race, ethnicity, people not on the binary, the LGBTQ community. “We wanted our nominator pool,” he said, “to reflect what we want to see in our theater audiences.”
How Do The Arts Make A More Appealing Case For Funding To Philanthropists?
It is this notion of competition that has preoccupied the case for the arts for much of the past ten years, leading to a greater focus on impact and evidence of outcomes than ever before. And while the resulting improvements in measurement and evaluation are in many regards enhancing the offer the sector makes, it is an argument we can never win and which in fact misses the point.
How Data About Writing Is Changing Writing
“A few decades ago, the advent of the word processor made it easier than ever to revise on the fly; it also made it easy to dwell on one sentence ad infinitum, gilding the lily where once one would’ve advanced to the next thought. The glut of data is another mixed blessing—past a certain point, writers would do better in a state of blissful ignorance.”
Opera Versus Gay Opera Versus Opera Queens, A Pocket History
Alex Ross: The culture indicated by the phrase “opera queen” became visible in pioneering openly gay communities of the late nineteenth century, and undoubtedly existed long before that. Even so, operas on gay themes have proliferated in recent years.
How SoundCloud Became A Hotbed Of Musical Innovation
On SoundCloud, genres thrive on amorphism, defined more by a song’s uncompromising sentiment—rage, anxiety, body-rolling euphoria—than the pulse of the beat or musical composition. (A casual listener might be inclined to label “Please B Okay” as simply house music.) This has given the Berlin-based platform a unique advantage not just in breaking unknown talent but in becoming a breeding ground for experimental sounds.
How, And Why, I Taught My Computer To Compose Its Own Music
John Supko: “As Bill [Seaman] and I saw it, human creativity can be defined as making connections – governed by unpredictable, subjective forces – between seemingly unrelated bits of information. Music is particularly well suited to serve as a model for the creative process. Human composers have multiple components of information – melody, harmony, rhythm – at their fingertips. … These elements tend to implicate each other and emerge together from the composer’s imagination. Bill and I wanted to emulate this organic emergence of interrelated elements in the computer.”
Why Has Sotheby’s Share Price Hit An All-Time High?
Sotheby’s shares are up 45 percent for the year, reports Katya Kazakina of Bloomberg, outperforming the S&P 500 and marking the auction house’s highest level since the company went public in 1988.
Millions In Gov’t Funding For Emma Rice’s New Theatre Company ‘Makes A Mockery Of The Entire Arts Funding System’
“Wise Children, the company, didn’t exist until nine days before the deadline for registering a National Portfolio Organisation application [with Arts Council England]. … It may be that the company’s success provides a resounding and gratifying riposte to a ridiculous cock-up at Shakespeare’s Globe … But you have to ask: would other bold artists, who hadn’t been blessed with the oxygen of publicity, be successful with a similarly astronomical application?”
BAM Starts Its First Formal Artist Residencies – And They’re For Dance
“The Brooklyn Academy of Music, in what it says is its first formal relationship with a residency partner, will join forces with the budding Lumberyard Contemporary Performing Arts organization in upstate New York to commission and nurture three new dance works.”