– draw attention to “Dogma,” a movie about vengeful angels. It’s a “freewheeling, irreverent, disorderly and, above all, juvenile comic fantasy so sloppy, so silly and so puerile that it would have died quickly on the vine had it not become a stimulus for religious and political mouthpieces,” writes one critic. Detroit News
ALTERNATIVELY: Movie is a “celebratory leap of faith.” Salon 11/12/99
Top universities explore online learning – but first they have to learn themselves what learning works best. Wired
No simple filmmaker. A conversation with Werner Herzog. New York Press
Last week’s auctions at Sotheby’s produced sales of $144 million, including 5 paintings which went for more than $10 apiece. Here’s a scorecard. Artnet.com
And: The story behind the star – Picasso’s Femme Assise dans un Jardin (painted in 1938), goes for $49.5 million. Artnet.com 11/12/99
What does it say about us and our point in art history that Norman Rockwell is getting some positive critical attention? The Idler
Twenty-one years ago thieves broke into a San Francisco museum and made off with four paintings – including one thought to have been painted by Rembrandt. Now three of the works have mysteriously turned up. New York Times
The top of the art market auctions has bloomed. But it’s the middle range where the really interesting action is. Artnet.com
Antique dealers and auction houses have always had a complicated relationship. Now, one of London’s grandest names in Oriental art decides to sell off its Japanese collection – at auction. Financial Times
But popular culture – the raw, vulgar, greasily commercialized stuff disdained by artistic traditionalists and modernists alike. LA curator puts pop into traditional art spaces. His specialty is not public art, not political or gender-driven art, not multicultural art — often, it’s not even contemporary art — but pop culture and its “artifacts” as art. New Times LA
A new New York show takes a look at visual art in Berlin in the decade since the wall fell. And there’s not a painting in sight. New York Times
