If a madonna playing an accordion was too much for the last Adelaide Festival, wait till next year. Australia’s largest festival reinvents. Sydney Morning Herald
Tag: 10.26.99
BLOWING UP THE TRADITIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL
If a madonna playing an accordion was too much for the last Adelaide Festival, wait till next year. Australia’s largest festival reinvents. Sydney Morning Herald
IF YOU WANT TO GET AN ARTS GRANT
know your terms. A Montreal artist applied for a grant to write a book about the porno company he works for. He didn’t get it. Next time call it erotica.” Toronto Globe and Mail
A DEAL FOR FIVE NEW RUSHDIE books –
– four new novels and a collection of essays. – Publisher’s Weekly
SOUTH AFRICAN is first writer to win Booker Prize for fiction twice
JM Coetzee won for his novel “Disgrace” – previously won in 1983 for “The Life and Times of Michael K.” – BBC
AND: More on Coetzee. London Telegraph
AND: Washington Post account, New York Times report
OF TOURISTS, AUTOMOBILES AND STARBUCKS
A conversation about the art of cities with Richard Rogers, architect of the Centre Pompidou and the Lloyd’s building. Feed
MUSEUMING OUTSIDE NEW YORK & PARIS
Regional museums in France and America join forces to raise their profiles and “prove cultural life lives outside the big cities.” New York Times
WHY HAS THE TURNER PRIZE –
– originally created to celebrate the best of British art, abandoned traditional painting and sculpture in favor of installation art? Financial Times
ALSO: “TWO NAKED MEN JUMP INTO TRACY’S BED”: Two art students did exactly that Sunday at the controversial Turner Prize exhibit at the London’s Tate Gallery. They called their actions art – “We wanted to push her work to further limits, make it more sensational, interesting and significant.” they say.One of them tried to scare the guards by pretending to be a kung fu artist. BBC 10/26/99
PREVIOUSLY: PROTEST: The Turner Prize gallery in London’s Tate Gallery was shut for the day Sunday after two men staged a pillow fight in the Turner Prize exhibition. They jumped onto a bed which was part of a controversial exhibition by young British artist Tracey Emin. BBC 10/24/99
UPLIFTING OR DISGUSTING
Sorting out the values of art in a time when controversy draws more attention than beauty. Chicago Tribune
TICKET SALES FOR BROADWAY’S “RAGTIME” –
= have dived in recent weeks. Owners contemplate closing the show. Toronto Globe and Mail