“After being asked why he thought there were no women among five new conductors in Norway: Men, he explained, ‘often have less sexual energy and can focus more on the music. A sweet girl on the podium can make one’s thoughts drift towards something else’.”
Tag: 08.30.13
Rise Of The New Super-Galleries
“Thanks to a resurgent global-art market, some of the world’s top dealers are feeling flush and fueling a new gallery building boom–transforming factories, roller rinks and airplane hangars into showrooms for contemporary art. As a result, some of the most highly anticipated shows of the season are set to open in galleries, not museums.”
The Global Movie Business – What Audiences Are Seeing Where
The international movie business is big business. Here’s where.
Chimp Wins $10,000 Art Prize
“Brent, 37, created a delicate, vibrantly coloured work featuring daubs of violet, blue and yellow on paper. The entries were judged by noted primate researcher and conservationist, Jane Goodall.”
Poet Seamus Heaney, 74
At the close of his Nobel address he spoke of “poetry’s power to do the thing which always is and always will be to poetry’s credit”
Musicians Say MinnOrch Management Offer Isn’t New
“The orchestra’s management … requested that the musicians vote on the proposal] by Sept. 9. Later in the day, the musicians responded with a statement that said: ‘The offer management presented is the same offer the musicians unanimously rejected a few weeks ago.'”
Australian Artist Matt Doust Dies In L.A. From Epileptic Seizure
The 29-year-old, considered one of Australia’s best young artists, was in California to prepare for his first solo show in the U.S.
Get Ready For All The Spider-Man Disaster Dish
Glen Berger’s upcoming tell-all book “chronicles the ugly slide of the once close creators, the director Julie Taymor and the composers Bono and the Edge, of U2, into a morass of betrayals, lawsuits, and petty slaps, like a producer’s yanking Ms. Taymor’s tickets for the show’s opening night.”
Is “The Sharing Economy” Just A Mirage?
“The success of the sharing economy depends on the degree to which a culture of using versus owning triumphs over the deeply ingrained consumerist notion of our stuff as an extension of ourselves. While the first generation of digital natives may feel comfortable sharing every aspect of their online lives, it’s hard tell to whether they’ll be anywhere near as comfortable sharing their possessions offline.”
Art Museum On English Seashore Tops One Million Visitors, Tripling Pre-Construction Estimates
“Before the Turner opened, it was predicted that about 300,000 people would walk through its doors in just over two years.”