Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato is the only contemporary art museum in Tuscany. “Over the course of 2012, the institution–located 20km north of the art-rich city of Florence–only sold 760 tickets for a total sum of €11,921, which averages out at €30 a day.”
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The Rise Of The Jazzbro (And The Danger He Poses To Jazz)
“The jazzbro is ‘utterly convinced of both the superiority of his taste and the marginalization of his ideas.’ … Unlike the hipster, [the] jazzbro doesn’t feel alienated from society or life, except aesthetically.”
What’s The Market Split Between Digital And Paper?
“There is yet more evidence that fiction sales lean more toward digital than their nonfiction counterparts. For fiction, the digital-print split hovered consistently around the 50/50 mark.”
The “Dawn” Of A Golden Age Of Comic Books
“Digital comics are not cannibalizing print sales, but are in fact expanding the market noticeably, and at a time when sales are up for the industry across the board.”
Video Games And Toys Converging
“The divide between toys and video games has, in recent years, been defined by the presence of a screen: If something had one, it was a video game. If it didn’t, it was a toy. That distinction has eroded as video game screens have extended themselves into our living rooms.”
The Museums That Never Got Built
“Some museums just aren’t meant to be. For reasons of being too complicated, expensive, or just too out there to exist, many architects’ plans for museums have been unrealized.”
Jasper Johns’s Longtime Assistant Charged With Stealing And Selling Johns’s Art
James Meyer, 51, “was arrested for stealing at least 22 works from his employer and selling them through an unnamed New York gallery for $6.5 million, falsely telling the dealer and buyers that Mr. Johns had given them to him as presents.”
How Did Mikhail Bulgakov Deal With Official Soviet Disfavor?
He asked repeatedly to be deported, even writing letters to Stalin himself. “The manoeuvre was impossible to fault. Since hundreds of officially sponsored reviews of ‘work had stated that he had no place in the Soviet Union and that he would ‘never change’, he would agree.”
Artist Ed Ruscha, Having Quit L.A. MOCA’s Board, Joins SFMoMA’s
“A year after Ed Ruscha joined three other prominent Los Angeles artists in resigning from the Museum of Contemporary Art’s board of trustees, he has signed on to the board of another major California arts institution – the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.”
V&A Museum Gets Green Light To Build Scottish Branch
“The V&A at Dundee, an affiliate of the London museum in eastern Scotland, secured planning permission this week and building work is due to start next summer. … With costs estimated at £45m, it is the most expensive gallery project ever undertaken in Scotland.”