Scott Johnson’s Mind Out of Matter: Should music make so much sense?
AJBlog: Condemned to Music
Clyfford Still Museum Revisited
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts
Let (Make) the Artists Do It (?)
AJBlog: Engaging Matters
Art and the estate tax
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth
Tax deductions for artists
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth
The C-Word: Craft
AJBlog: Artopia
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Tag: 10.07.14
Are These Canada’s Best Books Of 2014?
“In a wide-ranging list that culls from across Canadian regions, the fiction finalists include Michael Crummey, who was expected to be among the major prize winners this fall for his latest novel, Sweetland, but failed to place on the Giller and Writers’ Trust lists; Thomas King for The Back of the Turtle; and Claire Holden Rothman for My October.”
Major Reorganization At NPR
The biggest change is the departure of chief content officer Kinsey Wilson, widely admired for his digital initiatives over the past six years.
Mark Morris Dance Group To Split In Two (Don’t Panic!)
“The Mark Morris Dance Group is simultaneously going west and east from mid-October through November, as for the first time in the company’s 34-year history, it splits into two groups.”
Actress Marian Seldes, 86
“Tall, angular and dark-haired, with a commanding, patrician voice and liquid gestures, Ms. Seldes could dominate any scene – so much so that she was sometimes criticized for overacting. She shrugged at that: She knew very well that she cut a distinctive figure. … She also had it right when she described herself as a theatrical workaholic; she was seldom offstage.”
U.S. Tax Court Ruling Has Some Very Good News For Artists
“If you say you are an artist, but you make little money from selling your art, can your work be considered a profession in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service?” As of last week, the answer is yes.