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Tag: 09.20.17
How Politics And The American State Department Helped Shape Post-War Art
The end of New Deal subsidies led to a new wave of competition between artists, and the abstract-expressionist style expanded. The market for this new art was energized by a number of factors: the postwar period of inflation and the pent-up demand and incomes from the war led to a new cascade of collectors. Additionally, French art was no longer imported after 1944, and the European art market had been devastated by the war.
Why Founders Leave, And Sometimes Shut Down, Their Dance Companies
Dance Magazine’s Nancy Wozny talks to Trey McIntyre, Liz Lerman, and Sandra Organ Solis about how they made their fateful decisions and what they went on to do.
Hollywood Launches Campaign To Press For Investigating Russian Interference In 2016 Election
“Big Hollywood names have helped found the Committee to Investigate Russia, a nonprofit aiming to spread information about Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and create debate about possible threats to the country’s institutions. The committee launched Tuesday in the U.S., with director Rob Reiner on the advisory board and actor Morgan Freeman featured in an introductory video.” (And that video has led to a big anti-Morgan Freeman campaign in Russia.)
Jean Michel Basquiat Made His Entire Life Art, And Essentially Predicted Our Identity-Obsessed Digital Age
Think about this when you see artists on Instagram: “Artists always make spectacular choices in terms of what they are going to wear – it’s part of the gallery game, a game of seduction with the collectors. They are buying you as much as they are buying the work. It’s one of the rare occasions where the class system is subverted. Nobody is going to remember you because you died with a billion dollars, but they will remember your collection. Jean Michel was acutely aware of that. His whole life as a black man in the art world was a performance.”
Seattle Is The Fastest-Growing City In America. Its Arts Community Is Struggling To Keep Up
For decades, Seattle has been a good arts town, with theatres, dance, music and visual artists prospering in a healthy arts scene. But rising rents, a huge influx of new residents and a changing culture are changing the city’s culture.
Report: Music Streaming Revenue Is Up 48 Percent In 2017
More than 30 million people are now paying for a subscription streaming service in the U.S., which pushed streaming revenue up 48 percent, to $2.5 billion, in the first half of the year. Streaming now accounts for 62 percent of the U.S. music business.
How Trump Bought His Way Onto The NYT Bestseller List With “Art Of The Deal”
O’Donnell recounts buying 1,000 copies of The Art of the Deal to sell in the Plaza’s gift shop—only to be told by fellow executive Steve Hyde that it wasn’t nearly enough. “You’ve got to increase your order,” Hyde told him. “Donald will go nuts if you don’t order more books.” How many more? Four thousand copies, O’Donnell was told. “We were pressured to buy a lot of books,” O’Donnell tells the New Republic. So many, in fact, that he had to find creative ways to get rid of them all. “What we would do is use them as a turn-down service in a hotel,” O’Donnell laughs.
Mexico’s Museums Struggle To Figure Out Earthquake Damage
In a post on Facebook and Twitter, the Museo Nacional de Antropologia e Historia reported that all staff was safe. Other museums, monuments, and archaeological sites appear to have been affected by the earthquake, and many institutions and archaeology sites in Mexico City and the states of Hidalgo, Morelos, Puebla, and Tlaxcala are currently closed as a safety measure.
Trip Advisor Users Rank The World’s Most Popular Museums. The “House Of Terror”? Really?
“I would be the first to admit that many of the institutions here are new to me—though to be fair, I am not a military history buff, and therefore am unfamiliar with institutions like Hungary’s House of Terror or Singapore’s Battlebox, which seem quite popular. It’s not all just war, though: In Uruguay, the top museum is the Museo Andes 1972, an institution dedicated to the 1972 flight disaster that became the subject of the 1993 Ethan Hawke cannibalism drama, Alive. And it is truly endearing to know that Croatia’s favorite museum is the Museum of Broken Relationships, which began as a quirky art project.”