“Its fate took on added importance amid questions over how committed the Philharmonic would remain to new music after the departure of Mr. Gilbert, who has raised its profile during his tenure.”
Tag: 10.14.16
Artists In LA Rise Up Against Influx Of New Galleries In Their Neighborhood
“Activists from a loose coalition called the Boyle Heights Alliance Against Artwashing and Displacement are demanding that the galleries leave… Artists who didn’t grow up in Boyle Heights, they look at Boyle Heights as a blank canvas. They don’t realize they are painting over another work of art.”
Here Are The Dominos In The $250 Million Old Master Fakes Scandal
“This calls into question the long-held belief that art history experts can identify the hand of a master simply by looking at a work, and could have major implications for the Old Master market moving forward.”
Sales Of Bob Dylan’s Books Soar And Sell Out
“Dylan’s memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, jumped from No. 15,690 on Amazon’s best-seller list on Wednesday night to No. 278 in the wake of the Nobel news, and it is now out of stock. Meanwhile, a bound compilation of Dylan’s lyrics, The Lyrics: 1961-2012, hopped from No. 73,543 to No. 209 in the same time frame. (Dylan’s music also saw the effect, with Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits and Blonde on Blonde making it to Amazon’s top 25 for CDs and vinyl by Thursday night.)”
New York Armory’s New Director Defines The Immersive Arts Experience
In an age when it has become common to consume entertainment on hand-held devices, Pierre Audi said, the appeal of multisensory immersion in a cultural event is growing: “Nowadays we are attracted to it because we are naturally — and it’s healthy — becoming uncomfortable with the ritual of going to a concert, business as usual.”
For First Time Since Civil War, Beirut’s National Museum Has All Its Galleries Open
“The National Museum of Beirut, which stood on the deadly Green Line during the Lebanese civil war, has reopened fully to the public after more than 40 years. On 7 October, [dignitaries] inaugurated the restored basement galleries dedicated to Lebanon’s ancient funerary art.”
How The Corruption Of The Bolshoi Mirrors The Decay (And Resilience) Of Russia
Simon Morrison describes “the thuggish Bolshoi as having survived revolution after revolution because the “narrative respects its own laws of storytelling,” the struggle time and again the perfection of ballet’s eternal laws. “To dance, after all, is to condition the body, and with it the mind, to let go,” he writes. Yet it is this very inability to let go—to let anything go—that has divided what used to unite the love of millions.”
Staffers At Versailles Indicted For Selling Counterfeit Tickets
“First it was suspected counterfeit chairs, and now, counterfeit tickets – the Palace of Versailles is having a rough year. Five employees of the opulent tourist attraction were indicted for fraud on Monday, after French police confirmed a fake ticket conspiracy suspected by innocent colleagues.”
Dario Fo, Nobel-Winning Playwright, Dead At 90
“He was best known for Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970), a play based on the case of an Italian railroad worker who was either thrown or fell from the upper story of a Milan police station while being questioned on suspicion of terrorism, and for his one-man show Mistero Buffo (‘Comic Mystery’), written in 1969 and frequently revised and updated over the next 30 years, taking wild comic aim at politics and, especially, religion.”