“It’s worth remembering, particularly in an age of ‘inclusion’, that most good drama is not multicultural. It’s created by exploring singular worlds, where there is no allowing for the interplay of gender, race, sexuality and class.”
Tag: 11.12.07
Mobile Music – Hope For The Future?
Sales of CDs have been declining for years now. But recording companies think new download-to-phone services could revive their flagging fortunes.
The Poet As Terrorist?
Samina Malik “went all Web 2.0 and posted poems – terrible, terrible poems – on various websites. That’s about the extent of her terrorist activity. But never fear. The judge and prosecutors went the extra mile to give her a notoriety that her very, very bad poetry and infantile fantasies about being a terrorist really don’t warrant.”
Beijing Takes On Modern Architecture
Beijing is making itself over for the Olympics, with some of the world’s most audacious building projects.
Claim: Oxford’s Michelangelos Are Fakes
“Three academics from the Universities of Leipzig and Hamburg have written a five-volume study that casts doubt on the works held in Britain, which are among up to 40 per cent of the world’s Michelangelos that they believe should be dismissed as copies.”
Sotheby’s Catches The Flu
“Despite evidence that the art market is larger, deeper, and more independent from other financial markets than ever before, if the art market sneezes, Sotheby’s stock catches the flu. Oddly, in this case, there is no evidence yet of a significant slowdown in the art market. Even in a disappointing sale, 35% of the lots that sold at Sotheby’s went for prices above the high estimate.”
Angela Gheorghiu – Always Ready For Her Close-up
“We use our voices to be somebody else, to entertain. So why not recognize that? I don’t agree with this idea of ‘I sing for myself.’ Excuse me? Then you can sing in the bathroom. That’s not what the work is about.”
Toronto Loses Its Largest Jazz Club.
With the Toronto Jazz Festival attracting 600,000 people over 10 days, pianist Robi Botos wonders why all the fans who “fill up the tent at the jazz festival” are not filling up jazz clubs during the rest of the year.
How Will Canada Get A Portrait Gallery?
“Nine cities are invited to compete for the prize of securing the portrait gallery. Toronto is on the list, along with Halifax, Quebec City, Ottawa-Gatineau, Montreal, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver. The catch: this will be a private/public partnership. Translation: someone in the lucky city that wins gets to pay the bills so that Stephen Harper’s government won’t have to.”
This Week’s NY Contemporary Art Auctions A Big Test
“This week’s $914 million combined top estimate of Christie’s International, Sotheby’s and Phillips de Pury & Co. represents twice as much art as the world’s biggest contemporary fair, Switzerland’s Art Basel, traded in June, and would beat May’s auction total.”