David Sabel, who runs the National Theatre’s NT Live: “The track record of filmed live performance is quite bad – the fear is that it becomes the antithesis of what the art form is. … The idea that you go along, get a piece of paper like a programme and hopefully watch with a sold-out crowd feels more akin to the DNA of theatre than staying at home and pausing while you go off to make a cup of tea.”
Tag: 10.30.13
Damn! So It Was Post-Modernism That Killed The Avant Garde
“Marketing is now part of what artists do. They “play” with the market; their lifestyles and rebellions key into the corporate world. Art about art, art about money and value is now familiar. It was easy enough to walk around Damien Hirst’s big retrospective and see precisely the point at which the money becomes both subject and object.”
The Problem With “Creativity” Policy
“Few of us would deny that culture has a relationship to creative activity. But politicians and many in the cultural sector have entangled culture with ideas of artistic ‘specialness’ or uniqueness and packaged that entanglement into an apple pie and motherhood discourse of creativity.”
Billion-Dollar Tower That Will Expand New York’s MoMA Gets New Life
“The tower, known as 53 W. 53rd Street, will feature 145 luxury condominiums, along with the biggest expansion for MoMA since 2004: 36,000 square feet of new gallery space on the museum’s second, fourth and fifth floors.”
Study: You Can Trust Me Before Lunch (But After That You’re On Your Own)
“A newly published paper entitled The Morning Morality Effect suggests we’re more likely to act unethically later in the day. It provides further evidence that self-control is a finite resource that gradually gets depleted, and can’t be easily accessed when our reserves are low.”
Wynton Marsallis To Head Juilliard’s Jazz Programs
With the appointment of Mr. Marsalis, the school is hoping to expand ties to Lincoln Center, “mirroring its associations with the Metropolitan Opera, through the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, and with the New York Philharmonic, through Alan Gilbert’s directorship of Juilliard’s conducting and orchestral studies program.”
Study: Hollywood Movies Don’t Reflect Country’s Racial Diversity
“Popular films still under-represent minority characters and directors, and reflect certain biases in their portrayals.”
PBS’ “The News Hour” Has Lost 48 Percent Of Its Audience In Eight Years
Using the figures in my 2005 piece and the best Nielsen numbers I can confirm for 2013, the rate of decline for “ABC World News” the last eight years has been 16 percent, while “NBC Nightly News” has lost 17 percent of its audience. “CBS Evening News,” meanwhile, is down 22 percent. That’s an average of 18 percent for the three commercial nightly news shows.
Jane Austen Biographer Objects To Picture Used On Bank Of England’s New Banknote
“I can’t believe they have gone for such a saccharine picture. Jane Austen was a supreme social satirist, and some of her writing was quite dark, but they’ve chosen a picture that makes her look a really cosy, middle-class writer.”
Alexander Calder’s Heirs Accuse Longtime Dealer Of Fraud
“In a recently amended complaint filed in New York State Supreme Court, the Calder estate says” that Klaus G. Perls and his wife, who represented the sculptor for 22 years before Calder’s death in 1976 – “surreptitiously held on to hundreds of Calder’s works and swindled the artist’s estate out of tens of millions of dollars.”