Says one longtime local, “We’re lucky the world discovered Marfa, but the week your [assessed] property values get sextupled is not the best time to get people to admit it.”
Tag: 08.11.14
Corcoran Gallery Fires Leader Of “Save The Corcoran” Group
Jayme McLellan, an adjunct instructor at the Corcoran, had been engaged to teach her usual class in professional practices for artists this fall. Last week “she was notified that the class was canceled and her employment terminated. … The problem: McLellan is the co-founder of Save the Corcoran” – the group that filed suit to stop the planned dissolution/division of the Corcoran between the National Gallery and GWU.”
Carlos Acosta Plans To Settle In Cuba, Start His Own Dance Company
The Royal Ballet star “told the Communist Party newspaper Granma for a Monday article that he’d like to form a small company along neoclassical and contemporary lines” following his retirement from the ballet stage at the end of the 2015-16 season.
China’s “Sex And The City” (Chairman Mao Would Be Horrified)
The Tiny Times film franchise “is a wholesale celebration of conspicuous consumption … a cross between Sex and the City and The Devil Wears Prada.” The series has greatly irked “those who think individualism and materialism have gone too far in China.” It has also pulled in $200 million so far.
University of Chicago Whitewashes Commissioned Mural, Artists Claim Censorship
This past spring, the Montreal-based collective En Masse, as part of a University invited residency program, worked with local youth to create a large piece on the side wall of an empty muffler shop on the South Side. Then, thanks to some very bad luck, the community turned against the piece – and so the arguments began.
Street Dance Reborn And Revved Up
Alastair Macaulay visits a competition in the form called Detroit Jit. (includes video)
A Brief History Of Inappropriately Invoking George Orwell
“In view of Amazon’s hilarious misappropriation of an Orwell quote in its ongoing battle with Hachette, it might be more fun to take a look at a few of the many times in recent memory when Orwell’s memory has been used and abused … but watch out for Big Brother.”
This Is The Most Controversial Show In Edinburgh
“South Africa’s fearless theatre-maker Brett Bailey has made a career out of tackling the most difficult aspects of race. His new show” – titled Exhibit B – “features black people in cages, in reference to real 19th-century human zoos – and even some of the performers are uneasy about it ”
Benedict Cumberbatch In “Hamlet” Is Hottest Theatre Ticket Of All Time
That’s what the ticket website Viagogo reports. “In the hours following the release of tickets, the popularity of [the 12-week run at the Barbican next summer] also appeared to outstrip demand for major music tours, registering 214% more ticket searches than Beyoncé & Jay Z’s On the Run tour.”
Rome’s Maxxi Museum Removes Sculpture After Accusations Of Child Pornography
The fiberglass work by British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman, titled Piggyback, depicts two nude girls, one with a penis sticking out of her mouth.