In Toronto, a quiet revolution in the way art galleries are presenting their work. “The new dealers tend to hunt out work they like, then simply hang it on the wall to see what happens.” That means mixing artists and group shows. ” Instead of having to come to grips with a single body of work, take it or leave it, customers now had a menu of art options to browse through, as in any other store. And that seemed to make them feel at home, and readier to buy.” – The Globe and Mail (Canada)
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HISTORY YOU CAN HOLD IN YOUR HANDS
As libraries become more and more electronic, they’ve been dumping some of their paper archives. “When the British Library decided to dump a historic archive of American newspapers, the best-selling novelist Nicholson Baker was so horrified he decided to buy it for himself. He is now engaged in a one-man campaign to rescue ‘the raw store of history’ that microfilm and the internet promise to destroy.” – The Telegraph (UK)
GLYNDEBOURNE CHIEF QUITS
Nicholas Snowman resigned this week as general director of the Glyndebourne opera festival. “The abrupt departure of Mr. Snowman, 57, took Glyndebourne’s board by surprise and left it with no one in the top job. “Yes, we were surprised. He said he’d been here for two years and achieved what he wanted to do.” – New York Times
AMERICAN COMPOSERS NAMES NEW MUSIC DIRECTOR
“Steven Sloane, a 42-year-old American conductor, has been named music director designate of the American Composers Orchestra, the only orchestra today dedicated entirely to the creation, performance and preservation of music by American composers. Sloane will succeed Dennis Russell Davies, the principal conductor and music director who founded the orchestra in 1977 with the composer Francis Thorne.” – New York Times
WHEN POP ISN’T SO POPULAR
There is a real crisis in the British pop music industry, with “sales in decline and British acts now barely troubling the American charts.” Not such a surprise, writes one critic. The industry did it to itself over many years. – The Telegraph (UK)