“The vault was conceived as the heart of the $140-million museum. It allows the Broad to store or exhibit 99% of its nearly 2,000-object collection on-site, where it’s all surprisingly accessible to the staff. That’s a game-changer logistically for the museum, as planning exhibits and lending works to other institutions will be far easier, giving the collection more international play.”
Tag: 08.09.15
Being An Irish Writer Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be
Anne Enright, who’s up for a second Booker Prize right now and is the first-ever laureate for Irish fiction: “Writers are never telling wonderful stories about Ireland, they’re telling interesting stories about Ireland, and Ireland doesn’t necessarily appreciate that. So for me to be accepted, for a female voice – with all the anxiety there is about the female voice in Ireland – for that somehow to dissolve, and this symbolic thing of the laureateship, is just lovely.”
The New CEO Of The Pittsburgh Symphony Has To Confront Attendance And Budget Issues
“Pittsburgh Symphony projects it will run another million-dollar-plus budget deficit this season, and has seen ticket sales fall to 50 percent for the classical subscription series and to 54 percent for the Pops. The symphony’s last balanced budgets were for the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons, before the financial sector meltdown.”
Benedict Cumberbatch Pleads With His Fans To Stop Filming ‘Hamlet’
“The Sherlock actor made his debut as Hamlet at the Barbican last week but found the distraction of red lights in the audience so ‘mortifying’ that he stepped outside the stage door after the show to ask the waiting throng for their help.”
‘To Me, They Are Art World Royalty’ – The Guerrilla Girls, 30 Years On
“After three decades as masked crusaders for gender and racial equality in the art world – and increasingly, everywhere else – the Guerrilla Girls have lately been enjoying a victory lap. … What follows is an oral history of the Guerrilla Girls and their big-footed leaps across the cultural world, recounted by the Girls themselves, their art-world contemporaries and younger artists they inspired, as well as curators, dealers and museum directors who were witness to their insurrection.”