The Boston College show features about 170 Jackson Pollocks, including paintings, drawings, photographs, and letters. But the most interest will be generated by two dozen paintings which may or may not be by the 20th Century master. “Studied by scientists and argued over by art historians, the paint-spattered pictures will be on view for the first time.”
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The Phantom Audiences Of San Antonio
A recent study in San Antonio found that 775,431 current San Antonio Area Households are likely to be performing arts attenders. “That’s unbelievably fabulous news because it means that purveyors of dance, theater and music can draw patrons from about 100,000 more households than actually exist in the eight-county San Antonio metropolitan area.”
Fires Threaten Ancient Greek Olympics Site
“New blazes broke out faster than others could be brought under control, and through the night, more fires started. Desperate residents appealed through television stations for help from a firefighting service already stretched to the limit and many blamed authorities for leaving them defenseless.”
Musicians Struggle In Post-Katrina New Orleans
“Many musicians, like other New Orleanians, are struggling with life since Hurricane Katrina struck nearly two years ago. Many venues that offered live music have not reopened or offer the stage as often.”
Boston Performing Arts Center Under Investigation
Boston’s Citi Center has been mired in difficult financial troubles. Now “the attorney general’s office is looking into practices at the Citi Performing Arts Center in light of recent Globe reports on the nonprofit organization’s spending.”
Herbie Hancock At 67
“Musicians study his solos like scripture, and many of his songs, among them ‘Maiden Voyage’ and ‘Dolphin Dance,’ have entered the bloodstream of jazz.”
Where Did Toronto’s Dance Audience Go?
What has happened to the dance audience in Toronto? Mark Hammond, director of programming at the Hummingbird Centre, puts it bluntly: “There isn’t one.” Harbourfront dance programmer Jeanne Holmes is more optimistic. “There’s an ebb and flow in dance,” she says. “I think we’re at the bottom of an ebb.”
Pop – Politics-Deficient
“Does anyone go to Pop for the politics any more? In love with ad-mass culture and all things American, Pop’s biggest shocks were to do with presenting both as a new kind of art, not issuing dark warnings to the President.”
Art Deco Capital (It’s Shanghai)
“Shanghai, home to more skyscrapers than New York and a population of 20 million swept into an endless sprawl of suburbs, is not a city one tends to associate with Art Deco. Yet the 1930s was Shanghai’s first great decade of economic boom, and both the Western bankers who ran the city and the new Chinese middle classes wanted to associate only with the new.”
Music After Katrina
“Two years after Katrina, the landscape of New Orleans music, like the landscape of the city itself, is radically different. Where the scene was dominated by party tunes and decades-old standards, where some of the most popular local acts could count on weekly gigs without having to stretch too much, now there’s something deeper.”