Tag: 08.01.18

Does The American Museum World Take Too Hard A Line On Deaccessioning?

The case of the Berkshire Museum “raises an existential question for museums as a whole: should an institution be allowed to die on the vine to preserve collections? … Are we as a field saying that museums are ethically bound to continue ‘business as usual’ and never change their missions?” Bob Beatty surveys the dilemma and lays out a possible solution.

Russian Court Orders Artwork Depicting Putin Destroyed

“The condemned work, entitled 9 Stages in the Decomposition of the Leader, is a print of nine time-lapse digital images showing an official portrait of the Russian president over a seed box, with each image documenting the disintegration of Putin’s portrait as grass grows through. … [This] may be the first recent case of Russian authorities ordering the destruction of a specific work of art.”

What You Should, And Should Definitely Not, Do At Your Local Library

Recataloging a book is a bad plan: “One time a guy did this with an InterLibrary Loan book he’d checked out. He sent an email to me about it and also one to the lending library. In that email he included a picture of the new ‘tag’ he’d applied to the spine, in which he’d written the call number with a fine-point sharpie. Don’t fucking do this. We went to school for it; you didn’t.”

How An Illustrator Feels When The Movie Studio Forces A Change On Her Book Cover

The Hate U Give book cover illustrator Debra Cartwright on what happened when the studio took over: “So much money was thrown behind the movie, and so much marketing was thrown behind it, and it’s just like, you can tell who Hollywood is pushing to be in the limelight, and everybody knows it has a lot to do with appearance, but it also is still being driven a bit by colorism. Not a bit. It is.”

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Author Turned Down Buckets Of Money – Twice – To Get The Movie Version He Wanted Made

Kevin Kwan’s satirical rom-com novel sold over a million copies in more than 20 languages, and the studios promptly came calling. First, he sold the rights for $1, in exchange for the right to keep some control over the development process and keep Hollywood from whitewashing the Asians out of it. Then Netflix offered an eight-figure package that included complete artistic control for Kwan and director Jon Chu. They turned it down in favor of Warner Bros., just for the chance to get an all-Asian cast on the big screen in a major Hollywood production.

Casting Directors Share Secrets Of The Trade

“As a new award seeks to give casting directors overdue recognition for their key role in shaping productions – not to mention actors’ careers – leading practitioners in the job tell Nick Clark what they believe makes a good casting director, how they started their careers, and what actors can do at auditions to impress them.”

Charles Hamlen, Beloved Classical Music Manager Who Founded AIDS Charity Classical Action, Dead At 75

“[His] rise to the zenith of the classical music world — as a co-founder of IMG Artists, which represented many of the biggest stars in the field — was improbable, as he was the first to admit. He was a high school French teacher and playing piano on the side when he moved to New York in 1977 to try to make it as an artists’ manager.”