“A dietary staple of an exhausted creative vocabulary, artistic gimmicks continue to be regurgitated at art fairs around the globe. These well-worn ideas have appropriately been parodied on Tumblr pages like ‘Who Wore It Better’ and on Instagram via the anonymous profile @whos__who. Despite some variation in scale, material, or display, these tried-and-tested clichés now urgently demand retiring.”
Tag: 10.06.16
There’s Still Plenty Of Unknown Work Being Discovered At The Clyfford Still Museum
“Five years after the Clyfford Still Museum opened its doors, much of its collection has yet to be examined. More than 300 paintings by the pioneering Abstract Expressionist whose works fill the museum remain unstretched. ‘A lot of the paintings still smell like they are drying – we’re the first people to unroll them since he made them,’ says Dean Sobel, the museum’s director.”
Portland Art Museum To Expand, Get Access To Rare Rothko Works
“The Portland Art Museum announced today that it will expand, connecting the museum’s two freestanding buildings, and that it will begin a 20-year art lending partnership with Mark Rothko’s children, Christopher and Kate. The partnership will allow the museum to exhibit important Rothko paintings from his children’s private collection on a rotating basis.”
Scientists Recreate Artifacts Destroyed In Syrian War Using 3D Scans
“The Italian models are one-to-one reconstructions based on extensive documentation of various kinds. After being created using 3-D printing techniques, the reproductions were then covered with a layer of plastic material mixed with stone powder and finished by hand to replicate the original as closely as possible.”
London Doesn’t Need Any More Theatres, So Stop Building Them
Mark Shenton: “I saw it argued on Twitter that, with London’s ever-expanding population, there’s a need to expand theatrical provision to meet the possible demand; but we’re nowhere near reaching capacity on the venues we already have. And surely the more venues there are, the more it will dissipate the existing audience. … I suspect a lot of the new theatre ‘builds’ (conversions of pop-ups) are driven by something else.”
Sotheby’s Says Old Master It Sold Five Years Ago For $10 Million Was A Fake
“Sotheby’s earlier this year became aware of a possible authenticity issue with a 17th century Dutch painting attributed to Frans Hals and informed the purchaser, the auction house said in a statement Thursday. It then hired an outside firm to conduct a technical and forensic analysis of the work, which was peer reviewed. Those efforts showed the painting couldn’t have been created in that period because modern materials were used.”
Theatres – Without Getting Partisan – Get Out The Vote
“I’m really interested in not dictating how someone should vote, but there is a way to voice and to extend what you see and how you experience something—you have a form of expression, and sometimes that form of expression is artistic, but what we all have is the power to vote and to have our voices heard. So taking advantage of that journey from heart to head to action.”
Striking Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Musicians Play Free Concerts
“The musicians’ orchestral program on Oct. 9 features Antonin Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony, which the musicians were scheduled to play Oct. 14 to 16 under Manfred Honeck at concerts cancelled by management.”
Austin City Council Says Arts Groups Who Get Public Money Must Work With Union Workers Or Lose Funding
“The changes to the city’s cultural services agreement require organizations that take city money or use city property to recognize any labor organization designated via a card-check method and cooperate with it. If not, they could lose funding in future years.”
The Death Of Movies Meme Is Just Silly
“Come December – once the likes of Moonlight, La La Land, Arrival,Manchester by the Sea, Elle, Loving and a dozen more all-time classics hit theatres – it will be impossible to argue that film is dead, and everyone who advanced such a click-friendly theory will feel pretty foolish. But it would surely help if studios decided that audiences didn’t have to wait until the end of the calendar to realize that the medium would live to see another year.”