“Oddly, and for different reasons, ChicagoArtMap.com’s map and calendar does contain some fake data. This wasn’t done to be fancy, it was a booby trap so if people took our data wholesale, and refused to link to us, we could point to the fake data as an argument against the idea that we all get the same press releases.”
Tag: 12.09
Report: Canada’s Cultural Revenues Down $3.1B In 2009
“Total cultural sector revenues ‘are expected to be 4.3 per cent – or about $3.1 billion – lower in 2009 than they would have been in the absence of a global recession’. The decline in revenues is expected to be most severe for written media (a 6.1% decrease) and broadcasting (4.8%).”
What The Bauhaus Did For Moden Art
“One forgets that modernism before the Bauhaus was a volatile, many-sided, centrifugal affair and that there was little reason to believe that its various factions and groupings–whether Cubist, Futurist, or Constructivist–could ever make common cause.”