Few could have foreseen a battalion of flannel-clad Seattleites, backed by an upstart zine-turned-label, becoming one of the biggest pop-music disrupters of a generation. Nor could one have predicted that, 30 years later, you could access almost every record ever made from a telephone-computer-camera in your pocket.
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Gala Dalí, Chief Marketing Officer Of Salvador Dalí, Inc.
“The idea is that while Dalí was the face of the enterprise, Gala propelled it. Dalí certainly recognised her contribution, signing some of his paintings ‘Gala Salvador Dalí’ … Can Gala, having produced no art that we know of, really be considered an artist? Perhaps not. But this exhibition does show how much Salvador Dalí – and his art – depended on her forceful personality, for better or worse.”
These Arts Funders Tried To Incorporate Love Into Their Program. How Did They Go About It, And Did It Work?
F. Javier Torres and Leila Tamari, who ran ArtPlace America’s National Creative Placemaking Fund: “[We] wondered to ourselves, well, what does love look like in grantmaking? We think it begins by remembering that behind each proposal, set of guidelines and evaluation criteria is a human being — the people who do the work. And, to incorporate love, you need to find ways to share power, be transparent, and prioritize relationships. In some cases, we succeeded, and in others, we missed the target completely.”
Four-Year, €4 Million Project To Promote Performing Artists With Disabilities
The project, called “Europe Beyond Access” and involving partners from the UK, Greece, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Serbia, aims to “break the glass ceiling” and bring disabled artists into the mainstream of theater and dance.
Of Course Language Shapes How We Think. But Does It Change Our Sense Of Time?
Lera Boroditsky, of Stanford University, has amassed interesting data on the effects of how we speak of things, such as that people who speak languages that use the same word for a pair of colours need more time to distinguish between them than ones who have a separate word for each – but they can distinguish between them. Mandarin speakers conceptualise time vertically while English speakers conceptualise it horizontally – but each language could use the other metaphor; it has the words for it.
Is The 8 P.M. Curtain Time Becoming A Thing Of The Past?
It’s certainly not disappearing entirely (yet), but concert presenters, theaters, and opera companies have been experimenting with alternatives. Peter Dobrin looks at what organizations are trying – and what their patrons have been telling them about why they should be trying it.
Ten Forgotten Picassos Resurface At Tehran Museum
While preparing a major exhibition of Western works in the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, guest curator Mattijs Visser found ten works by Picasso in addition to the two the museum had registered. He thinks more surprises may come to light in the collection as he continues work on the show, which opens next February.
The Newseum, Where They Honor News, Had A Fake News T-Shirt In Its Gift Shop Until People Complained
The Newseum, which also sells MAGA and FBI hats to make money, had a T-shirt reading “You Are Very Fake News” in its physical and online gift shops. “‘I think it’s obviously intended as a joke,’ Robert MacNeil, an author and a Newseum trustee emeritus, said Friday. ‘I don’t think it’s a great joke.'”
Local Funding For The Arts Is Down In UK
According to figures released by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, authorities across England have allocated a total of £392 million on culture and heritage for 2018/19, compared to £400 million for the previous year. The statistics claim that revenue expenditure by local authorities has tumbled more than £100 million since 2011/12, when it was £501 million. Local authorities include county and district councils, as well as metropolitan authorities such as city councils and London boroughs.
Most Literature Is Filled With Struggle. And This Is Good For Us?
“Generalization is treacherous, but let’s posit that at the center of most modern storytelling, in particular most literary storytelling, lies the struggling self, or selves, individuals seeking some kind of definition or stability in a world that appears hostile to such aspirations: life is precarious, tumultuous, fickle, and the self seeks in vain, or manages only with great effort, to put together a personal narrative that is, even briefly, satisfying.”