“There’s no artist or movement here that hasn’t already had abundant exposure in museums and galleries over the years, if not the decades. As a result, whatever the Broad collection may say about the art of the recent past, the real story it tells is about art collecting in our time.”
Tag: 09.15.15
Here Are The Finalists For The 2015 Man Booker Prize
Marlon James, Tom McCarthy, Chigozie Obioma, Sunjeev Sahota, Anne Tyler and Hanya Yanagihara are the six authors shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015.
The Broad Museum’s Big LA Statement
“When it opens on September 20, the Broad will become the city’s second richest museum behind the Getty—its endowment of $200 million is more than the endowments of the neighboring Museum of Contemporary Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art—as well as the latest edition to the developing downtown arts district. Commissioned by the billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad and his wife Edythe, the $140 million museum will showcase and store the couple’s more than 2,000-piece collection.”
Our Relationship With Libraries Is Changing (Fast)
Overall, perhaps people aren’t visiting libraries as much because their relationship to the printed word, still a library’s core offering, is dramatically changing.
Study: Participation In The Arts Driven By Education, Not Class
“Sociologist Aaron Reeves of the University of Oxford reports most forms of arts participation are strongly correlated not with class, but rather with education. To his surprise, he found that in a large sample of the English population, those with higher incomes were actually less likely to be active participants in the arts.”
Paris Opera Introduces A Digital ‘Third Stage’
3e Scène, conceived by new Paris Opera Ballet director Benjamin Millepied, “includes 18 films in its first batch of offerings. The filmmakers include the French actor-director Mathieu Amalric, the director Rebecca Zlotowski, [etc.] … Mr. Millepied said that the website aimed to produce around 30 new works each season, and to extend to installations, readings and other events.”
The Man Booker Prize Shortlist Is Out (And Marilynne Robinson’s Not On It)
The National Book Award winner Lila didn’t make the finals. But Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life is there, as are titles by fellow American Anne Tyler, Britons Tom McCarthy and Sunjeev Sahota, Jamaican Marlon James, and Nigerian Chigozie Obioma.”
Andy Warhol Really Did Like Campbell’s Soup
“Host Alec Baldwin talks to Eric Shiner, director of The Andy Warhol Museum, about the hyper-inventive multimedia star, and learns about the surprisingly deep emotional basis for Warhol’s obsession with Campbell’s Soup.” (podcast)
Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.15.15
Where did the creative class come from?
Your humble blogger has been absolutely swamped with a cross-country move and writing about pop culture (mostly) for Salon. I hope to never leave CultureCrash fallow for nearly this long. … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-09-15
The Broad Broadsided: Critics Take Aim
No good deed goes unpunished. That adage seems sadly apt when it comes to collector/philanthropist Eli Broad, whose eponymous downtown Los Angeles museum, opening Sept. 20, has already sustained potshots from leading art critics, … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-09-15
Conover Stamp News & When Paquito Met Willis
The campaign for a US postage stamp to honor the late Voice of America Broadcaster Willis Conover has surmounted a bureaucratic hurdle. Maristella Fuestle of the Conover archive at the University of North Texas reports. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-09-15
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Report: Public’s View Of The Future Of Public Libraries Is Sharply Divided
“The data paint a complex portrait of disruption and aspiration. There are relatively active constituents who hope libraries will maintain valuable legacy functions such as lending printed books. At the same time, there are those who support the idea that libraries should adapt to a world where more and more information lives in digital form, accessible anytime and anywhere.”