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Tag: 09.25.14
Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.25.14
Why we don’t do it
AJBlog: Sandow | Published 2014-09-25
Mission Accomplished: Another Delaware Deaccessioning
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-09-25
To send or to trash
AJBlog: The Artful Manager | Published 2014-09-25
Switching Sides in the Digital War
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-09-26
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Prominent American Composers Weigh In On Atlanta Symphony Lockout
“We write as a group of American composers in loud support of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and its unique and important place in American concert music. We unanimously encourage those involved in its management, board and funders to do whatever necessary to keep this great orchestra vital and thriving. The ASO must not be allowed to degrade, piecemeal, into a second-class entity.”
NYCity Ballet Star Heads To Broadway
“It’s wonderful for Broadway to get a dancer of Megan’s caliber because this isn’t necessarily the same audience that goes to the ballet. They don’t know this powerhouse of a dancer and I think they’ll fall in love with a big dance musical. And, hopefully, they’ll then say, ‘Let’s go to the ballet.'”
Comcast-Time Warner Merger Debate Rages
“The continuing stream of statements underscores that the merger review is a free-for-all grandstanding opportunity for companies, orgs and individuals with all manner of agendas. The frustration with the situation is evident in the tone of Comcast’s lengthy replies to critics of the deal that would unite the nation’s two largest cable operators.”
EU Considers Banning Cadmium Pigments; Artists See Red
“The EU is weighing a restriction on the chemical following pressure from Sweden, which argues that artists pollute the food chain when they rinse their brushes in the sink. Cadmium ends up in sewage sludge and is then spread on agricultural land.” Responds one pigment maker, “Artists are not rotters; they are not tipping this stuff down the drain, it’s an expensive substance.”
The Cult Of Jeff Koons Must Die
“Koons is alert to a tendency on the part of the art audience to submit—to submit to something (to anything) that exerts a certain discomfiting power. This is the S&M of the contemporary art world, with the audience angling for an opportunity to grovel at the feet of the superstar.”